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New Ballard Food Bank makes asking for help feel more like a day at the supermarket
The Ballard Food Bank opens its new location on 14th Avenue Northwest on Monday. It includes a larger shopping area, designed to look and feel like a grocery store. And there’s a café where you don’t have to pay to eat lunch.
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Craft brewing in the Pacific NW dates so far back that archaeologists are on the case
The Pacific Northwest is rightfully proud of its thriving microbrewery scene. Most beer lovers probably consider the rise of craft brewing a phenomenon of the past few decades. But the first brewpubs in the Northwest date so far back that archaeologists were called in to excavate the remnants of one in Jacksonville, Oregon.
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Live and streaming, Earshot Jazz is primed for a 3-week festival
‘I think 85% of the bands in this festival are led by either women or people of color.’
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Vaccine exempt Seattle staff may not have 'same job' or 'same rate of pay'
As Seattle city officials plan the next step to getting Covid jabs in the arms of those who want them, the city is also grappling with those who do not. The city will open Covid-19 vaccination sites soon to get ahead of an expected run on doses in the coming months.
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Climate Pledge Arena goes on offense with sustainability goals
Most big arenas use lots of fossil fuel to heat and cool the space. They’re energy hogs. But backers of Climate Pledge Arena, home to The Kraken and The Storm, say it’ll be the greenest in the world. We checked into those claims.
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Northern lights make appearance over Washington
Northwest astronomy fans got a treat Monday night as clear skies provided an excellent view of the northern lights over Washington state.
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Sara Nelson and Nikkita Oliver miles apart in race for Seattle City Council
If you had to explain the differences between the candidates for Seattle City Council Position 9 in two sentences, you could start with the ideological abyss that separates Nikkita Oliver and Sara Nelson.
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Most state and hospital workers are vaccinated as Washington's mandate deadline looms
Next week is the final deadline for hundreds of thousands of workers subject to the state’s vaccine mandate. The mandate requires affected workers to be fully vaccinated by October 18th or risk losing their jobs.
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Pacific NW governors hold fast on vax deadline as local officials warn of worker exodus
The days are quickly ticking down to next Monday's deadline when most Oregon and Washington teachers, health care workers and public employees need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Elected officials especially in more conservative swaths of the Pacific Northwest remain fearful of a "mass exodus" of firefighters and health care professionals.
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Microsoft: We’re on track to stop polluting this decade. Then we’ll undo all the climate harm we’ve ever done
The tech giant says, by 2025, its operations will use only clean energy.
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Can downtown Seattle attract families? The big question behind the debate about a new school.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan wants to put a public elementary school downtown. She’s offering the school district the right to build the school on the former entrance to the Battery Street tunnel. That decision is not final. But it’s prompted a lot of discussions about the future of downtown.
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Is your kid's school safe in a quake? This retired WA lawmaker is sounding the alarm
‘This is life safety at risk. These guys are going to have to step forward and protect the kids of this state.’