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  Soundside

  What can Seattle expect from its new director of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs?

  Last week Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced that Seattle Port Commissioner Hamdi Mohamed would be joining his administration as Director of the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs. But what does she hope to do in that position?
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  KUOW Newsroom

  As WA lawmakers consider a safe staffing bill, nurses warn of crisis conditions and risks to patients

  'It's really important that we do have this safe staffing standard because adding more patients to the nurse's workload is literally hurting patients every single day. It's not good for them.'
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Five things to know about Washington’s 2022 legislative session

  The Washington Legislature convenes on Monday for a short, 60-day session. Top issues include delaying and making fixes to the state's long-term care insurance program, clarifying some of last year's police reforms and deciding how to spend $1.3 billion in leftover federal COVID-19 relief money the state received.
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  Week In Review

  Week in Review: Omicron, new state laws, and winter weather

  Bill Radke discusses the week's news with the Seattle Times Esmy Jimenez, Publicola’s Paul Kiefer, and the Everett Herald’s Isabella Breda.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  'Washington and Seattle are not what you think.' How the insurrection changed politics across the US

  It's been one year since the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. And the fallout continues to reverberate across the country and right here in Washington state.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Seattle's top political moments in 2021: Elections, pandemic response, and more

  Political junkies in Seattle had a lot to binge on in 2021.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Regulators say Amazon obstructed investigations into warehouse safety violations

  Washington state officials say Amazon has stonewalled workplace safety inspectors by attempting to prevent them from entering Amazon warehouse facilities.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  For the Northwest, climate change was hard to ignore in 2021

  Climate chaos doesn’t wait around until nothing else is going on.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Republican Senator Doug Ericksen, is dead at 52 after Covid diagnosis

  Washington state Sen. Doug Ericksen, a Whatcom County Republican, has died, according to an announcement from the Senate Republican Caucus on Saturday. The cause of death was not immediately known.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Voter redistricting maps by commission can go forth, WA Supreme Court says

  In a surprise order Friday morning, the Washington Supreme Court declined to take on the job of drafting new congressional and legislative maps. Instead, the court declared that the state's Redistricting Commission had finished its work on time last month.

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