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Bill Radke talks to Lynda Mapes, The Seattle Times environment reporter, about Washington's disappearing salmon population and what it says about the health of our coast and Puget Sound.

Washington state is suing President Trump yet again. The Trump administration has issued new rules that let insurers and employers opt out of covering contraceptives in their health insurance plans. Yesterday, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson challenged those rules in federal court. Did you read about the hiker rescued from the Goat Rock Wilderness over the weekend? Two search and rescue experts will tell you how to not be that hiker. And our Northwest salmon are disappearing. Scientists who

Bill Radke speaks with Taylor Brugh, vice president of Seattle Mountain Rescue, and Sandeep Nain, owner of the Redmond-based guiding company Miyar Adventures , about how to plan and prepare for trips into the mountains. We also hear stories from listeners of when adventure went wrong in the outdoors.

When I met Dave Rank, he was just a normal guy on a road trip with his wife in a used Subaru. But not long before that, Dave had a very important job.

A state-ordered inspection has found "severe corrosion" at another Atlantic salmon farm in Puget Sound, this one along the ferry route between Bremerton and Seattle.

If we are not rational or disciplined enough to make decision on our own, should the government make them for us? And facing death can be scary and hard to imagine, but maybe we all need to get more comfortable with it. And artificial intelligence may be the wave of the future but that wave can wait when it comes to our children.

Let’s talk about death. No, seriously. It’s time we all had a conversation with our loved ones about dying.

Many of us spend large portions of our lives in cars. Many of us are annoyed by other people in their cars. The fact is, human beings behind the wheels of their automobiles are dangerous. In 2015, over 35,000 Americans died in fatal car crashes. With the advent of texting while driving, those numbers are trending up.

This week one man killed 58 and wounded hundreds of people in Las Vegas using legal weapons — semiautomatic rifles modified with devises that make them act more like machine guns. Will this shooting change our gun laws?

After a white police officer killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, there were months of protest across the country, including Seattle. New attention focused on how the police interact with black people. Now, police departments are considering whether special training can help their officers overcome their own biases.

Paxton Enstad is 17 years old and loves to swim. He has many passions – art, baking, gingerbread sculpting – but he always loved to swim. “When I was little I loved swimming. I would swim with my sister and my friends,” he said. “And then after puberty started I just completely stopped.”

This talk by and discussion with author Vanessa Grigoriadis explores the complicated politics of modern sexuality. It pushes the conversation toward the establishment of healthier, more informed attitudes about sex and consent in an often confusing social landscape.

Mass transit is all around you and it’s growing. You see the buses and trains running and new lines being built. So where are we on transit? Is there an important public backlash or has the transit train left the station? Also, the late Jon Rowley's work is a big reason you eat Copper River salmon and Olympia oysters. And, I’ll speak with somebody on the left who thinks the left is too intolerant. Frances Lee is the author of an essay called, “Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice.”

Bill Radke speaks with queer, trans, Chinese-American Frances Lee about an article they wrote called, " Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice." Lee argues that sometimes people involved in the social justice movement, which Lee considers themselves to be a part of, can sometimes be intolerant of differing views. Lee says that members of the left do sometimes intimidate their own with the fear of seeming impure.

Zoë Quinn is an avid gamer, developer, and artist. In her capacity as author and advocate, she’s launched an online crisis network and spoken before the UN. But you probably know her best from #GamerGate.