At approximately 3.40am on a frigid summer morning, photographer W. Kent Williamson snapped this image from Tipsoo Lake in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11761813/Stunning-shot-three-bald-eagles-wins-National-Geographics-Picture-Year.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

I’m from Beacon Hill, I have a family business here in the CID, and I now live in Rainier Beach so I know this area,” said Woo.

Source: https://crosscut.com/politics/2023/09/seattle-city-council-district-2-tammy-morales-vs-tanya-woo

Link light rail runs every 10 minutes on New Year’s Day and serves 19 stations including Northgate, Roosevelt, University District, University of Washington, Capitol Hill, downtown Seattle, SODO, Beacon Hill, Rainier Valley, Tukwila SeaTac and Angle Lake.

Source: https://thesubtimes.com/2023/12/21/sounder-trains-available-for-nhl-winter-classic-at-t-mobile-park/

Note the Rainier brewery in back; many readers will remember it in a later iteration as a Hamm's Brewery.

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Sixty-seven years ago on April 18, 1956, Grace Kelly, the sweetheart of Hollywood, married Monaco's Prince Rainier III in a spectacular ceremony at St Nicholas Cathedral.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12102215/The-ten-expensive-royal-weddings-time-one-racking-sum-75-5million.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

The 850-ft. tall Rainier Square Tower in Seattle, Washington, which opened in 2021, took only ten months to top out with this innovative approach.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/heatherwishartsmith/2023/08/18/to-may-to-to-mah-to-why-digital-technology-and-innovation-are-not-the-same-thing/

Tracking efforts are underway in areas like North Cascades, Mount Rainier, Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon national parks.

Source: https://www.hcn.org/articles/north-endangered-species-how-to-save-the-whitebark-pine