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  • caption: Chris Stearns currently serves on the Auburn City Council and is running for Legislative District House Position 2.

    Native representation to increase in Washington Legislature

    Washington state is home to 29 federally recognized Native American Tribes, but only one Native person currently serves in the state Legislature. That will change next year. Three enrolled members of Native tribes are poised to win their elections this fall.

  • caption: James Rousseau (center in maroon shirt) dances at a powwow in the minimum security unit at Airway Heights Corrections Center last month.

    Powwows return to Washington's prisons

    Powwows for Native American prison inmates in Washington state have been an annual tradition, but they were halted amid pandemic shutdowns. Now, the celebrations in the state’s 12 correctional facilities have returned.
  • caption: Amazon Prime packages are loaded on a cart for delivery in New York.

    What Seattle's tech layoffs mean for the region

    ‘It's not as if Andy Jassy, the Amazon CEO, is waving his wand from the Day 1 tower to do this and might realize tomorrow, as Elon Musk did in Twitter's case, that he made a big mistake.’ -Todd Bishop
  • caption: Seattle Children's Hospital is shown on Thursday, November 14, 2019, in Seattle.

    Washington's children's hospitals 'in crisis mode' amid surge of respiratory viruses

    A surge in RSV, a contagious respiratory virus, is straining pediatric hospitals across Washington state. As flu cases also begin to rise, and hospital officials look towards another potential Covid-19 wave, they’re sounding the alarm about hospital capacity for the state’s youngest patients. “We are in crisis mode,” said Dr. Tony Woodward, medical director of emergency medicine at Seattle Children’s hospital during a media briefing Monday. “And bordering, if not already in, disaster mode in our emergency departments across the state.”

  • caption: An artists' rendering of Ecothrive Village, with a conventional house in front and 27 small homes behind.

    In Burien, an unusual affordable housing experiment gains steam

    Buying a home is out of reach for most low-income families in the ultra-expensive greater Seattle metro area. The city of Burien is trying to change that. It's experimenting with tiny cottages, with up to two bedrooms, that families earning less than $50,000 per year can buy.

  • caption: D'Vonne Pickett's wife KeAnna speaks at his memorial accompanied by their three children, at Climate Pledge Arena on Nov. 10, 2022.

    Mourners gather at Seattle arena to remember D’Vonne Pickett Jr.

    People gathered at Seattle’s Climate Pledge arena Thursday to mourn the death of D’Vonne Pickett Jr, the sports coach and business owner who was shot and killed three weeks ago. Pickett’s casket was draped in thousands of flowers as hundreds of people dressed in black gathered in the arena to celebrate his life.

  • Joe Kent

    MAGA Republican Joe Kent spreads election conspiracy theories during ballot count

    In Southwest Washington's 3rd Congressional District, MAGA Republican Joe Kent is locked in a tight race against Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Earlier Kent said he would accept the results, even though he falsely claims without evidence that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. But now he's spreading election conspiracy theories about his own race.