Nicole Grant, center, with her son, Flynn Meyer, in the yellow shirt and his Orca K-8 teacher, Phi Ho Le.

Mayor Ed Murray

Activists gathered in Westlake Park on Monday before going to Seattle City Council to protest efforts to close hookah lounges and build a new juvenile detention facility.

The Tesoro refinery at Anacortes (March 2013)

An older elephant crosses the Amboseli plains in Kenya near the Tanzanian border: He can live with a broken tusk but he's still a potential target for poachers.

Bellingham

A Mount Baker area property: Backyard cottages can offer affordability and compatibility with the neighborhood.

Work continues on parts of the waterfront tunnel, like these air ventilation stacks. But what if the tunnel is never completed?

Traffic on I-405 near the Highway 520 interchange: Is help on the way?

One of Woodland Park Zoo's elephants

Shoreline Community College's campus in fall.