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  • caption: Correspondent Anna King has been fighting COVID-19 and it's after effects for a year now. It's been a slow journey, like that of this snail she found crossing a walking path near the Columbia River in Richland.

    A long haul: Reporter's snail-slow recovery after Covid-19

    Sometimes I feel as low as this cold-early-morning snail on the Richland river path. June 3 marks a year since COVID-19 blasted through my immune system. I have never figured out how I got it. And my recovery has come in fits and starts. But mostly it’s just been incredibly, snail-slow.

  • caption: Seattle native Nevin Harrison will compete at the Tokyo Olympics in canoe sprint.

    Seattle athlete to sprint at the Tokyo Olympics, but in a canoe instead of on the track

    Nineteen-year-old Nevin Harrison of Seattle has pictured herself competing in the Olympics for many years, mostly as a track sprinter like in the 100 or 200 meter dash. "My mom always tells the story of me being four years old and watching the Olympics and saying, 'I'm going to go one day, mom,'' Harrison recalled. "She was like, 'Sure, Nevin. Whatever.'" Later this month, Olympic team trials and Team USA coaches will fill out the roster for the delayed Tokyo Olympics. Some familiar names in women's soccer from Portland and Seattle, as well as the WNBA Seattle Storm's biggest stars and a pack of Pacific Northwest-based distance runners are likely Tokyo bound. Some other athletes from this region have already locked in their spots, including Harrison.

  • caption: Holly Yang of Kidder Mathews Bellevue

    Bellevue grabs attention of international investors

    Downtown Bellevue has attracted the attention of investors around the world. Amazon has promised to put 25,000 employees there by 2025. New light rail service there could carry 50,000 people a day by 2030. All that change has raised Bellevue’s visibility on the global stage. One Bellevue realtor has been fielding a lot of calls recently from China.

  • caption: Marty Jackson, left, and Gracie Ann, right, sit in the doorway of a boarded up business in front of a mural that reads 'Hope is Not Cancelled,' on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, along First Avenue South in Seattle.

    'You are only defeated if you stop fighting'

    Marcus Harrison Green is the publisher of the South Seattle Emerald and columnist for the Seattle Times. He's a Black man who grew up in South Seattle. And he spoke to KUOW's Morning Edition about how this city has changed - after George Floyd was killed but also long before that.

  • caption: A King County courtroom with socially distanced chairs for jurors. The pandemic slowed criminal trials and created a large backlog of cases.

    Mother of sexual assault victim says court backlogs have families holding their breath

    If you are a victim of a sexual assault, it is typically very challenging to get a case through the court system. During the pandemic, it’s been especially tough, as many courts have been closed down and there is now a huge backlog of cases. Victims of sexual assault are often very young and advocates say these delays have been especially hard for them.

  • caption: FILE: Seattle police officers stand near the intersection of 5th and Pine Streets on Friday, November 24, 2017, during a Black Lives Matter rally in Seattle.

    Calls to 'Defund SPD' started one year ago: so how’s that going?

    In response to city-wide protests following George Floyd’s murder, the Seattle City Council vowed to chop the city's police department budget in half. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm spoke with Seattle Times reporter Daniel Beekman about what's changed with policing in Seattle ... and what hasn't.