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Episodes
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Deportation flights have resumed out of King County Airport / Boeing Field
KUOW’s Gustavo Sagrero reports the county is also publishing data on those flights.
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Congress, AI, and a massive Microsoft bet
What would regulations mean for tech companies doubling down on artificial intelligence?
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Gov. Inslee signs new drug possession law after special legislative session
The Washington state Legislature approved a bipartisan compromise Tuesday to address drug possession and treatment during a one-day special session and Gov. Jay Inslee signed the bill into law.
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Former exec for Seattle nonprofits pleads guilty to blowing $3m on casinos, clothes, travel
The former finance director of two Seattle nonprofits pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony counts of federal wire fraud. Susana Tantico is charged with stealing more than $3 million from the Country Doctor Community Health Centers and later the violence prevention group Community Passageways, between 2011 and 2020. Charging documents said Tantico spent the money on personal expenses including gambling, clothing, and travel, and created false ledger entries to conceal her actions.
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Head of King County Regional Homelessness Authority steps down
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Snoqualmie Tribe enacts 2% land protection tax to help preserve ancestral lands
The Snoqualmie Tribe has instituted a new Land Protection Tax that’s believed to be the first of its kind in North America.
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Washington lawmakers reconvene for special session to finalize drug possession law
The Washington Legislature is getting back to work Tuesday in an effort to finalize the state's drug possession and addiction treatment law.
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Do WA schools need air conditioning? Some teachers think so amid the heatwave
The unusually early heat wave is causing stifling temperatures in some western Washington classrooms without air conditioning.
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Collect your mail quickly, says USPS, after security concerns in Seattle
As South Seattle mail delivery resumes, postal inspectors are still raising the alarm about theft and fraud.
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A love story delayed: Ukrainian couple seal their vows after years of discrimination
After years facing discrimination, harassment, violence, and abuse, a gay Ukrainian couple was officially married in Bellevue in April.
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The backlash over Seattle's plan to reward drug users for staying clean
Darryl Lee shifts in his seat and stares down at his lap as he unearths some distant memories of childhood. This isn’t nostalgia. His dad was a “chronic alcoholic,” and “abusive.” To escape, his mom moved the family to Seattle from Dallas. Eventually, Lee fell in with the wrong crowd, he said. “I got addicted to drugs and started going to jail and started being a criminal, and it just snowballed after that,” he said.
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Incoming Northwest heat wave 5x more likely due to climate change
Temperatures on Sunday and Monday could hit 90 degrees in Seattle, about 20 degrees above normal, according to the National Weather Service.