Construction at Amtrak’s $300M King Street Yard in SoDo is past the halfway mark, speeding the rollout of the new Airo trainsets.

A Pacific storm brings steady rain and gusty south‑southwest winds to Seattle on April 14, with Winter Storm Warnings for Cascade passes. Drive and travel with caution.

Perkins Coie partners voted Monday to approve a merger with Ashurst, creating Ashurst Perkins Coie — a roughly 3,000‑lawyer global firm with ~$2.8B in revenue.

Seattle made a 90-day pilot at Magnuson Park permanent, assigning three full-time neighborhood officers after small drops in crime. Other Seattle neighborhoods are already asking for the same model.

Developers filed plans this week for East West Club at 6 and 10 Dravus St., promising golf simulators, a rooftop lounge, wellness features and a $25,000 founding-members buy-in.

A visible sewage plume along Lake Sammamish led Bellevue and Public Health to warn people and pets to avoid the 200 block of W Lake Sammamish Parkway while tests proceed.

Three people were stabbed in a south Everett home Monday; two are in critical condition and a 24-year-old suspect was detained by residents, authorities say.

Family-run Bagel’s Bagels is headed to 2805 6th Ave on Tacoma’s Sixth Avenue this summer, promising classic New York‑style bagels, sandwiches and a local coffee program.

Bar Miriam cracked Food & Wine's Top 10, landing at No. 5. The Queen Anne bar was praised for Mai Tai Mondays and its low‑ABV cocktail program.

Yuvika Tolani will be the first permanent artistic director of Seattle’s Union Arts Center, starting May 4, 2026. Her appointment comes as the merged company scales programming downtown.

Converting Bellevue’s 120-year-old Wilburton Trestle to the Eastrail has revealed rot and hardware failures, raising the price tag and pushing the opening into 2027.

CoStar found Puget Sound retail absorption turned positive in Q1 2026 — the first gains since Q3 2024. Small storefront leasing leads while big‑box backfills lag.

A wrong-way head-on crash on SR 509 just south of Cloverdale Street killed two drivers Sunday night. Washington State Patrol says the investigation is ongoing.