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A Bellevue school has saved 4,000 pounds of food – enough that a nearby food bank no longer has to ration milk for its families.
Last month, 27-year-old Sabrina Tate died in Seattle . She was living in an RV in a city-sanctioned safe lot in the SODO neighborhood. For years, Sabrina had been homeless and addicted to heroin. The cause of her death isn't fully known yet, but she had developed an infection in her legs from years of drug use.
At Penn Cove, on the north end of Whidbey Island, gulls and other birds fly overhead, and a muddy beach leads down to the water. It’s quiet today, but, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, this was the place whale catchers came to capture orcas.
A little red fish that calls Lake Sammamish home is swimming desperately close to extinction. Officials are embarking on emergency measures to keep the fish known as kokanee from disappearing from the lake, and King County, forever.
More than a hundred heads of Seattle companies are saying no to Seattle’s head tax proposal. In an open letter to the Seattle City Council, they say it doesn’t make sense to punish businesses for creating jobs. The letter’s signatories include the heads of Alaska Airlines, Tableau, and Expedia.
Everybody poops, especially your pooch. Seattle pets generate over 80,000 pounds of poop a day, according to Seattle Public Utilities. That’s 40 poop tons — the weight of a fire truck.
The Seattle Symphony will perform five original lullabies at a free Mother's Day concert this weekend. And each lullaby was composed with help from a parent staying at a local homeless shelter. It's part of the symphony's effort to address homelessness in its own way.
The family of an unarmed Native American man killed by Lakewood Police in 2015 is suing the city in federal court. The complaint accuses the department of racial bias and negligence in its training.
It’s time to throw away the objective journalist hat for a moment and put on my completely-biased, music-loving shoes, because the submissions are in for NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest . The judges at NPR are pouring through all the entries right now to pick their national winner, and that announcement is expected April 24. In the meantime, I watched all 132 videos submitted to the contest from Washington state.
Kim Malcolm talks with University of Washington associate psychology professor Kristina Olson about her research into transgender kids. On Thursday, Olson was honored with the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman award, which includes a $1 million research grant. Olson says the funding will be used to expand the TransYouth Project , and to establish a mentorship program for LGBTQ students, and others who are underrepresented in the field of science.
The city of Monroe is enforcing a new ordinance that prohibits people from sitting or lying on sidewalks, joining a growing number of cities in Washington creating similar laws in the name of public safety.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the unfairest of them all? Famed is thy progressiveness, Seattle, but when it comes to taxes, it’s you.
Have you ever wondered what it's like to work at a cemetery? Here's your chance to find out.
The University of Washington may end its 20-year relationship with Nike. The UW Athletic Department announced Tuesday it plans to sign a new uniform and footwear deal with adidas instead. It will be one of the most expensive deals in college sports.
Seattle’s biggest cemetery begins with a tragic story.
