Airline of the Year: Alaska Airlines experienced a tech outage on Thursday that grounded flights for seven hours. The outage cancelled 229 flights and caused hundreds of delays, but was resolved as of 11:30 p.m. on Thursday. Delays still lingered into Friday morning, though everything seemed back up and running again. Our digital world is so tenuous. The Amazon Web Services outage earlier this week lasted more than two hours and sent banks offline, stifled WhatsApp conversations, and even forced people with internet-connected temperature-regulated smart beds to sleep on boiling mattresses.

Soggy South Seattle School: Emerson Elementary in Rainier Beach closed Thursday after a broken water fountain flooded the second floor. The school remains closed Friday and will be closed Monday, too.

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