‘The Impossible Fortune’ is the top local fiction bestseller
Here are the top local bestsellers from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.
Day: October 12, 2025
The discount data that some colleges still won’t publish
If you or your children are applying to any holdout schools, ask them for the common data set. If enough people do, perhaps they’ll cough them up eventually.
No longer young, and now laid off: 5 ways to protect your finances
When you’re over 50 and suddenly unemployed, priorities will switch to paying bills over saving for retirement. Here are five ways to secure your finances while you search for a new job.
They had money problems. They turned to ChatGPT for solutions
Some people are turning to chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini for help tackling debt, finding better ways to save or figuring out how to invest.
Student parents piece together child care and higher education
Community and technical colleges are working with parents to help solve the puzzle of seeking higher education while also needing child care.
WA’s wildfire future: More volatile forests amid slashed budgets
Jim Henterly spends most of the summer atop a North Cascades peak, where the view of our wildfire future is uneasy.
Mariners fans react to historic 15th inning win over Tigers
We asked for reactions from the marathon win — whether you were at T-Mobile Park, watching on TV or attending a Bugs Bunny symphony concert — and you delivered.
How to solve the child care crisis in Seattle area
The challenge is addressing four areas of concern at once: access, program quality, workforce issues and affordability.
Oregon plane crash: A writer’s hike to nearly 50-year-old wreck site
West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashed 49 years ago near Mt. Hood. Our writer hiked to the plane’s crash site to see what remains of it.
Mia Goth wears an ominous outfit in ‘Frankenstein’
Gothic dramas are often glorious costume-fests, and this bonneted ensemble on the appropriately named Mia Goth is a dream, writes Moira Macdonald.