Paige Browning
Newscaster
About
Paige hosts midday newscasts and monitors news of significance to the Puget Sound region. She subscribes to KUOW's mission: to create and serve a more informed public. This is what drives each story and newscast she anchors.
Paige was raised in the mountains and lakes around Spokane, the city where she first witnessed the importance of local journalism. She is a former news host and reporter for Spokane Public Radio, a station as invested in culture, environment, and journalism as she is.
The start of her public radio career came one fall in Montana, when Paige reported about black bears rummaging in people's trash. She's a proud alumna of University of Montana's School of Journalism, where she contributed to KUFM.
Paige is a shop steward of KUOW’s SAG-AFTRA newsroom union.
When not on air, you'll find her consuming true crime and long-form journalism, at a museum or music venue, and watching women's basketball.
Stories
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Seattle Now
Sawant email threats mystery solved
When District 3 Councilmember Kshama Sawant got threats from a city employee, sent from their city email address, you may have thought: 'There’s no way someone would actually do that.' And you'd be right. Seattle Times crime reporter Sara Jean Green has the story.
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Seattle Now
Seattle Now: A new vision for the Northwest
There’s a giant environment and energy proposal in congress that would reinvision a huge chunk of the West, including Washington. It comes from a surprising place: a Republican from a conservative rural district in Idaho.
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Seattle Now
Seattle Now: A phone for your grief
In a quiet corner of Priest Point Park in Olympia, there is a telephone hanging on a tree that has no dial tone. It cannot make calls, but it is there for anybody who needs it.
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KUOW Newsroom
Washington overdose deaths rise sharply. Fentanyl availability a main factor
‘The issue is that because pills off the street are basically guaranteed to be Fentanyl, you can't control it. You don't know how strong it is. You don't know what effect it's going to have on you. The likelihood is that it's going to be really devastating.’
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KUOW Newsroom
Legislative lookahead: Deadline looms for bills unrelated to budget
The first big deadline of Washington's Legislative session is coming up. That's when non-budget related bills need to pass out of committee - if they're going to survive to see another day.
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KUOW Newsroom
Friday Politics: Campaigns ramp up around Seattle City Hall
Seattle Councilmember Lo
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This week in politics: Seattle elections 'officially in full swing'
After a short breather from local politics, some 2021 Seattle City Hall races are starting to heat up. Seattle City Council President Lorena Gonzalez joined Colleen Echohawk in the race for mayor this week. And there’s still speculation that former Council President Bruce Harrell and former state Representative Jessyn Farrell could run.
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Washington billionaire tax proposal tries to find equity, includes 'escape' loopholes
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Howard Schultz are all worth billions of dollars - and they're all Washington residents. Now, state lawmakers are considering a wealth tax on resident billionaires.
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Will clashes over climate continue without Bezos as Amazon's CEO?
Amazon's founder and original CEO Jeff Bezos will step down this summer. It's news that could imply changes at the helm of the company, which has clashed with employees over issues like workplace safety and the environment.
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Legislative lookahead: Lawmakers debate pandemic relief, gas tax
Washington lawmakers are debating a gas tax, the state's pandemic reopening plan and a lot more this week.