Jan 17 Microsoft pledges $500M to tackle Seattle housing crisis By Gene Johnson, Associated Press As the tech industry Microsoft brought to the region has boomed with the expansion of Amazon and other companies, the cost of housing has soared. Continue reading
Aug 11 Authorities probe how airline employee could steal plane By Rachel La Corte, Keith Ridler, Associated Press An airline employee stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane and was chased by military jets before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound on Friday night. Continue reading
Aug 07 Washington Democrats hope to win U.S. House seat for the first time By Rachel La Corte, Associated Press The Washington state primary contest getting the most attention in Tuesday's election is an open U.S. House seat Democrats hope to capture for the first time since the district east of Seattle was created in 1980. Continue reading
Jun 12 Seattle repeals homeless-aid tax after Amazon objects By Phuong Lee, Associated Press The quick surrender showed the power of Amazon to help rally opposition and aggressively push back on taxes at all levels of government, even in its affluent home city where the income gap is ever widening and lower-income workers are… Continue reading
Jan 10 Watch 3:23 How animal cameras are capturing Seattle's wild side By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, researchers are peeking into the lives of animals who are trying to make it in the big city. Using strategically placed cameras, they’re trying to answer how urban life affects wild animals… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch 7:09 Navigating Seattle's ever-evolving streets through poetry By PBS News Hour How do you capture Seattle’s complications, quirks and ever-changing population? A new digital project is mapping out the evolving city by collecting poems that tell unique stories, from growing up in an affluent neighborhood to memories of homelessness and cold… Continue watching
Sep 29 Mapping Seattle, poem by poem By Lorna Baldwin Seattle's "Poetic Grid" captures the rapidly changing city by asking people to write about locations that have meaning to them. Continue reading
Aug 04 Why Death Valley and the Pacific Northwest are so hot right now By Roni Dengler Heat waves are burning up the West Coast. Here’s why things are so toasty right now. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch 2:44 Seattle's new seawall built to make life easier for fish By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, Seattle's seawall was like most others for 80 years: a flat, concrete slab that held back the sea. But a $400 million infrastructure project has turned Seattle's new seawall into a really… Continue watching
Jul 08 Watch 9:43 Seattle sticks to Obama-era police reforms amid review By PBS News Hour Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a sweeping review of police reforms initiated under the Obama administration, suggesting a potential rollback in federal oversight of police nationwide. One city still committed to reform is Seattle. Special Correspondent Joanne Elgart Jennings… Continue watching