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Seattle Now is KUOW's flagship daily news podcast. Seattle Now brings you quick headlines, smart analysis, and award-winning local news. New episodes every weekday morning and afternoon. Start and end your day with Seattle Now, from KUOW and the NPR Network.

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Episodes

  • WA is taking the NW ICE Processing Center to court, again

    Washington state is going back to court with the Northwest ICE Processing Center. The state argues they should be able to inspect the facility. But the federally contracted detention center owners disagree. We’ll unpack what’s going on with the Washington State Standard’s Jake Goldenstein-Street.

  • Wednesday Evening Headlines

    Amazon launches new AI tools, smartphone rules to get stricter for Seattle students, and Starbucks says it's turning things around.

  • We go "Beyond Mysticism" at SAM's modern art exhibition

    In 1953, Life Magazine published a widely read story titled “Mystic Painters of the Northwest.” It put Seattle in the spotlight as a creative hub of modernist art. A new exhibition at Seattle Art Museum explores modernist art in the Northwest, beyond the major artists. Theresa Papanikolas curated “Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest.” We met recently at the museum to get a tour of the exhibition.

  • Tuesday Evening Headlines

    State officials are demanding that health inspectors be allowed inside an immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Seattle police have increased drug-possession arrests despite a recent law meant to bring arrests down, and WSU researchers are fighting bacteria that's threatening our apple orchards. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.

  • An audit could end King County's homelessness plan. Should it?

    Some city and county leaders are calling for an end to a regional effort to solve homelessness after an audit found overspending and weak financial controls.  KUOW’s Amy Radil is here to help us understand what is going on with the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. 

  • Monday Evening Headlines

    WA sues Albertsons over sales promotions, homelessness agency vows to tighten purse strings after scathing audit, and a longtime Seattle karaoke venue is closing down.

  • Washington's wildfire research is in jeopardy ahead of peak smoke season

    Washington has six national forests, making up approximately nine million acres of land in our state… Those lands are managed by the US Forest Service, which also does research to help lessen the severity of our wildfire seasons. Now, a new directive from the Trump Administration could change how our forests are managed. We’ll hear more from KUOW Reporter John Ryan.

  • Weekend Listen: Trump canceled the National Nature Assessment. Scientists will publish it anyway, how UW Medicine is treating Latino farmworkers with Long Covid, and how Mayor Katie Wilson plans to fix the “L8”

    Today, we’re bringing you the best from newsrooms across Washington… First, President Joe Biden announced an executive order that created the first-ever national assessment of nature, but President Donald Trump rescinded the effort on his first day in office. The team that had started the work – led by a professor at the University of Washington – refused to give it up. Next, doctors at UW Medicine’s Long Covid Clinic are beginning to see patterns of how Long Covid is impacting various communities, including Latino farmworkers. And finally, you heard about it on Casual Friday - The notoriously late number 8 bus in Seattle is finally getting fixed.

  • Friday Evening Headlines

    Free pop-up health clinic sees high demand, credit rating agency puts Washington on notice, and your sewer bill could be going up.

  • Casual Friday with Vivian McCall and Vaughan Jones

    This week… Mayor Katie Wilson has a plan to fix Seattle's least reliable bus. Watch your tail… The city is ramping up its off-leash dog enforcement. And people got way too close to some sea lions hanging out in Ballard. Stranger Editor Vivian McCall and Seattle Now Producer Vaughan Jones are here to break down the week.

  • Thursday Evening Headlines

    Local officials call for homelessness agency to be dissolved, WA unveils climate action plan, and some campgrounds will close due to budget cuts.