Another Delay for Bertha's Start Date: The machine will start tunneling under downtown again in November, the Washington State Department of Transportation announced today. The last estimate the construction team gave was that Bertha would start Bertha-ing again in August. This delay pushes the opening date for the tunnel back to March 2018. Remember the estimated opening date when work on the tunnel began in 2013? It was 2015.

A Man Is Dead After an Officer-Involved Shooting in Ravenna: Police say a small black car rammed a police car on I-5 and fled the scene. When police went looking for the car, an officer spotted it, and the “interaction after that is being investigated,” the Seattle Police Department tells the Seattle Times. Police say they have no reason to believe a body found at a sports bar on Aurora Avenue North and North 125th Street is related.

Community Leaders Held a Press Conference Yesterday Decrying Gun Violence: Just like they did last year. But when Ansel asked the mayor if he'd increase funding for Career Bridge and the Youth Violence Prevention Initiative—programs that could help address the underlying causes of this violence—the mayor called it a "gotcha question."

Single-Family Neighborhoods Are Mostly White: After recent HALA-induced talk about zoning's racist past, Publicola asked the city to overlay racial and zoning data and found that, surprise, single-family zones are overwhelmingly white (except South Park and the Rainier Valley) while multifamily zones are more diverse.

Homeowners File Lawsuit Over City Trash Rules: Sally Oljar and her husband are suing the city because they think the rules requiring them to sort their trash, recyclables, and compostables give the city too much license to rifle through their trash. Or something. "Where does the intrusion of privacy on our personal lives stop?" Oljar fretted to KING 5 while allowing a reporter to sift through her trash.

Nineteen Washington Pot Shops Sold to Minors: Just two in King County, according to the Washington State Liquor Control Board (soon to be the Liquor and Cannabis Board). That's actually pretty okay. It's about an 88 percent compliance rate, which Bob Young at the Seattle Times reports matches the rate of compliance when the state has checked liquor stores.

State Lawmakers Spent So Long in Session and Got So Little Done: Soak in this KUOW headline and sigh with me: "Record-Long Session Produced Surprisingly Few New Laws." Austin Jenkins reports that less than 1 percent of bills introduced passed.

James Holmes Found Guilty in Aurora Theater Shooting: Now the jury will decide whether he gets the death penalty. Meanwhile, investigators are combing through information about another gunman who killed four Marines in Tennessee yesterday.

When a story about a mass gun shooting is interrupted with the verdict of a mass gun shooting, shows this country has a gun problem.
— Christopher J. Ortiz (@ChrisJOrtiz) July 16, 2015

Hillary Clinton Won't Support a National $15 Minimum Wage: Clinton told a BuzzFeed reporter she supports local wage increase movements, but "what you can do in L.A. or in New York may not work in other places."

E.T. the Walrus is Dead: "The popular walrus known as E.T. at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium died at age 33 Thursday when he went into cardiac arrest while under anesthesia after surgery," the Seattle Times reports. "'At age 33, he was a geriatric walrus with multiple medical issues,” said zoo head veterinarian Dr. Karen Wolf in the release. 'He had been ill for many weeks with a serious bacterial infection. He had not eaten for 17 days, and he suffered from painful arthritis that made it difficult for him to haul out of the water.'”