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Seattle is getting a major league cricket team

While the team's name is the Seattle Orcas, it's more accurate to say the team represents Western Washington, if not the Northwest, among franchises in emerging Major League Cricket.
Dyer Oxley
Former Sonics star Shawn Kemp fired in self-defense, lawyers say

Former Seattle SuperSonics forward Shawn Kemp acted in self-defense when he exchanged gunfire in a Washington parking lot while trying to retrieve a stolen cell phone and other items, his attorneys said Thursday.
Associated Press
Environment

The cherry trees are safe outside of Pike Place Market — for now

The city of Seattle has postponed its plans to chop down the cherry trees outside of Pike Place Market, after preservation activists petitioned the mayor and city council in the 11th hour, asking them to "stay the execution."
Paige Browning
Environment

Seattle could get 2 new off-leash dog parks

Seattle’s Parks and Recreation Department said this week it wants to add a couple of new off-leash dog areas to some city parks. The first step in the multiyear process will be studying 30 potential locations around Seattle.
Casey Martin
Arts & Life

Why Emerald City Comic Con nixed its Homegrown section for 2023

For years, Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con has featured a space for local creators, artists, vendors and more — the Homegrown section. But for its 2023 event, organizers opted not to include the section, which came as a surprise to vendors who relied on it.
Dyer Oxley
Arts & Life

Searching for home. Seattle author publishes first book of short stories

This week, Seattle’s Ronit Plank is releasing a short-story collection, “Home is a Made Up Place.” Plank is known as a memoirist. Her first book, "When She Comes Back," documented her relationship with her mother, who left Plank as a child to join a cult.
Libby Denkmann

Hans Anderson
Arts & Life

Celebrate Black literature and history all year long at Seattle Public Library's Douglass-Truth Branch

Seattle is home to what some may consider a hidden treasure at the Douglass-Truth Branch of the Seattle Public Library: one of the largest collections of African-American literature and history on the West Coast.
Katie Campbell

Angela King
Arts & Life

Seattle renames block to honor D'Vonne Pickett Jr.

The city of Seattle Thursday renamed a block on Union Street for community activist and business leader D'Vonne Pickett Jr., who was fatally shot waiting at a bus stop in the Central District last October.
Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Politics

Key takeaways from Mayor Harrell's upbeat 2023 State of the City address

In his second State of the City address as mayor, Bruce Harrell used the Space Needle as a metaphor to talk about his vision for the future, sounding optimistic and upbeat about the progress his administration has made and where Seattle is headed next.
David Hyde
Government

More than 1K Seattle buildings aren't ready for an earthquake

Seattle officials could finally require seismic retrofits for masonry buildings
Paige Browning

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