Kate Walters
Reporter
About
Kate is a reporter at KUOW covering the homelessness crisis and related issues.
Originally from Australia, Kate studied journalism at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before coming to work in public radio.
Kate began her career as a reporter with WXXI Public Radio in Rochester, NY, where she worked as part of a Local Journalism Center called the Innovation Trail.
At KUOW, she started as a producer on The Record before joining the news desk.
Stories
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KUOW Newsroom
‘One eye open.’ Sleepless in a Seattle tent
It’s 8:57 p.m. on a Sunday, and it’s karaoke night at the Georgetown tiny house village.
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KUOW Newsroom
Finding care for your five kids ... when you work the night shift
It’s dinner time, and Tiffany Montgomery will head to work soon. But first, she drops her five kids off at child care, where they’ll spend the night.
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KUOW Newsroom
Why's the octopus awake? Night at the Seattle Aquarium
It’s almost midnight, and Bailey is still awake, stretching and pushing against the glass in front of her.
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KUOW Newsroom
Homeless outreach numbers are in for Seattle, and here's what they tell us
The vast majority of homeless people who receive shelter referrals from Seattle’s Navigation Team aren’t showing up at those shelters. That’s according to newly released data from the city of Seattle.
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KUOW Newsroom
Child homelessness has doubled in Washington state in the last decade
More than 40,000 students are homeless in Washington state, and living without stable housing is hurting their performance at school. Those are some of the findings in a new Schoolhouse Washington report.
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KUOW Newsroom
Misdemeanors report puts heat on Seattle City Attorney
The Seattle City Attorney’s office declined to file charges in nearly half of all non-traffic misdemeanor cases referred to them in 2017, according to a report released Monday. And the office takes six months on average to file cases when suspects are not in custody, the document said.
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KUOW Newsroom
Boos and hisses at the Sawant-Orion debate at Seattle's Town Hall
Organizers urged the crowd to be quiet at last night’s District 3 debate between Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and challenger Egan Orion. But the crowd wasn’t having it.
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KUOW Newsroom
'Shoddy example.' How to count the Native women who have gone missing?
It’s been more than 30 years since Daisy Mae Heath went missing. To this day, her family doesn’t know what happened to her. She is one of an unknown number of missing and murdered indigenous women across Washington state and around the country.
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Seattle Mayor's 2020 budget: Kids, homelessness and transportation big items
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has unveiled her proposed budget for next year. The plan calls for roughly $6.5 billion in spending in 2020.
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattle Council considers allowing big increase in tent and tiny house communities
The number of city-sanctioned homeless encampments, both tent and tiny house communities, could dramatically increase throughout Seattle. That's the upshot of legislation before Seattle lawmakers Tuesday.