The Latest Latin America Venezuelans brace for hardship as Trump threatens oil blockade After years of shortages and economic collapse, Venezuelans face fresh uncertainty as Trump threatens an oil blockade — but many say they're too exhausted to do anything but endure. Carrie Kahn Politics Lone FCC Democrat warns of political pressure on media if agency loses independence The only Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission says chairman Brendan Carr's belief that the FCC isn't independent leaves news media vulnerable to political pressure. Leila Fadel Food The best Costco wines of 2025 Seattle Times food critic, Tan Vinh is back with the best rated Costco wines of 2025 and he's got perfect pairings like smokehouse lamb and Stevie's Famous Pizza! Tan Vinh World Mourners grieve 10-year-old slain in Bondi mass shooting as Australia's leader pledges new hate laws Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. The Associated Press Politics US announces massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, a move that is sure to infuriate China. The Associated Press Business Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett has died Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. He was 91. The Associated Press Environment Washington’s biggest polluter ordered to keep burning coal by Trump administration Two weeks before Washington state’s biggest source of climate pollution was required to end its five decades of burning coal, the Trump administration has given it a new lease on life. John Ryan Environment How to 'take care of business' when your wastewater treatment site becomes a flood zone King County Executive Girmay Zahilay gave a shout out this week to a county employee who went above and beyond in the midst of area flooding. Tyler Stiltner is the senior operator in charge at the wastewater treatment site in Carnation. He told KUOW’s Paige Browning about what happened. Paige Browning Flooding in WA: Skagit County's 40-year old flood maps and a dog kennel evacuation Lulu Ramadan of the Seattle Times talks to us about Skagit County's flood maps, which haven't been updated in 40 years. Plus, we hear from Kristiana de Leon, who evacuated malamutes last week amid flooding along the Puyallup River. Maleeha Syed Wednesday Evening Headlines King County crews working to shore up damaged levees, Highway 2 closure has Leavenworth businesses worried about tourism, and Rep. Dan Newhouse to retire. Patricia Murphy Prev 5 of 1650 Next Sponsored
Latin America Venezuelans brace for hardship as Trump threatens oil blockade After years of shortages and economic collapse, Venezuelans face fresh uncertainty as Trump threatens an oil blockade — but many say they're too exhausted to do anything but endure. Carrie Kahn
Politics Lone FCC Democrat warns of political pressure on media if agency loses independence The only Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission says chairman Brendan Carr's belief that the FCC isn't independent leaves news media vulnerable to political pressure. Leila Fadel
Food The best Costco wines of 2025 Seattle Times food critic, Tan Vinh is back with the best rated Costco wines of 2025 and he's got perfect pairings like smokehouse lamb and Stevie's Famous Pizza! Tan Vinh
World Mourners grieve 10-year-old slain in Bondi mass shooting as Australia's leader pledges new hate laws Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. The Associated Press
Politics US announces massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, a move that is sure to infuriate China. The Associated Press
Business Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett has died Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. He was 91. The Associated Press
Environment Washington’s biggest polluter ordered to keep burning coal by Trump administration Two weeks before Washington state’s biggest source of climate pollution was required to end its five decades of burning coal, the Trump administration has given it a new lease on life. John Ryan
Environment How to 'take care of business' when your wastewater treatment site becomes a flood zone King County Executive Girmay Zahilay gave a shout out this week to a county employee who went above and beyond in the midst of area flooding. Tyler Stiltner is the senior operator in charge at the wastewater treatment site in Carnation. He told KUOW’s Paige Browning about what happened. Paige Browning
Flooding in WA: Skagit County's 40-year old flood maps and a dog kennel evacuation Lulu Ramadan of the Seattle Times talks to us about Skagit County's flood maps, which haven't been updated in 40 years. Plus, we hear from Kristiana de Leon, who evacuated malamutes last week amid flooding along the Puyallup River. Maleeha Syed
Wednesday Evening Headlines King County crews working to shore up damaged levees, Highway 2 closure has Leavenworth businesses worried about tourism, and Rep. Dan Newhouse to retire. Patricia Murphy