Seattle Proposal Would Provide City Employees Four Weeks Paid Parental Leave The City of Seattle may soon offer its employees four weeks paid leave to take care of a new child. Mayor Ed Murray and City Council Member Jean Godden... Sara Lerner
What Are Seattle's Urban Legends (And Are They True?) Do Seattleites buy more sunglasses than residents of other cities? Was there really a dead horse in Ballard’s water supply in the early 1900s? And did... Jeannie Yandel
A Boom, A Whoosh And Then: Bertha Breaks Free The tunnel machine that’s been stuck underground for more than a year reached daylight Thursday. Now Bertha is slowly inching into position for repair... Joshua McNichols
520 Mega-Snag: This Far Along, And Still No Money To Finish It Construction of the new state Route 520 bridge is about halfway along now. But just as our tunnel mega-project has a major complication, SR 520 has its... Carolyn Adolph
How A Doomed French Chateau Inspired A Seattle Play The tail end of the 20th century was a heyday for Seattle. The city's music scene was making international headlines. Microsoft had spun off a new... Marcie Sillman
Two Best Friends And An Immigration Secret In Seattle How do you explain deportation to a child? A Seattle mom grappled with this question when her son’s best friend Jorge shared a secret one night at... Liz Jones
Richard Sher Of 'Says You' Was Just As Warm Off Stage Phyllis Fletcher, Managing Editor, Northwest News Network: "It’s not important to know the answers. You just have to like the answers.”I hoped to see... KUOW Staff
Gov. John Kitzhaber Of Oregon Resigns, Blames Media After months of scandal involving his fiancée, Gov. John Kitzhaber of Oregon has resigned. In a four-page statement on Friday, Kitzhaber, 67, starts off... Associated Press
I Couldn’t Save My Dad From AIDS, So I Saved Myself Instead When I was 16 years old I came home from school one day and found my dad crawling around on the kitchen floor in a big pool of blood. He was down on all... Jason Schmidt
As Ports Struggle, Air Cargo Booms at Sea-Tac A labor dispute with dock workers has led to slowdowns and backups at West Coast ports. One part of the Port of Seattle's cargo business is booming.... John Ryan
