For many, the price of health insurance is about to skyrocket
If you work for yourself or your employer doesn’t provide health coverage, you likely get your insurance through the state’s health exchange...
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20 of 1,321 episodesMonday Evening Headlines
Elected officials and business leaders met in Seattle to talk about boosting the local economy, several unions in the state are closer to se...
Canada's ports are poised to dominate West Coast container shipping
The US and Canada are in a full trade war. Turns out, Canada’s been prepping for years. The country’s been increasing container import and e...
Pessimist or prophet? A decades-old critique of big tech is back on bookshelves
One of the hottest books in Seattle right now came out 26 years ago. "Cyberselfish" first hit bookstores in 2000, when new technologies seem...
San Juan Islands residents brave ferry lines, medevacs to get to the doctor, ways to stay cool in Seattle without A/C, Northwest researchers develop vaccines to prevent opioid overdose and support addiction recovery
Today, we’re bringing you the best from the KUOW Newsroom. First, people who live in the San Juan Islands in northwest Washington state enjo...
Friday Evening Headlines
Seattle leaders honor 9/11 victims and first responders, WA heat deaths last year may be four times higher than CDC numbers, and speed camer...
Casual Friday with Vivian McCall and Betty Wetter
This week… Sound Transit says Light Rail to the eastside is killing fish. Seattle Public Schools is getting a little fancier with its new lu...
Thursday Evening Headlines
Regulators won't allow Seattle cement plant to burn more tires, ACA insurance plans will get more expensive next year, and the Seahawks win...
ICE is quietly detaining more people in WA
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are making an effort to draw less attention to their work. But arrests in Washington are increa...
Wednesday Evening Headlines
Mayor Wilson addresses gun violence, WA sues the Trump Administration over endangered species, and Amazon's facing another class action laws...
The Seahawks won it all. Can they do it again?
How do you follow up a dream season that ended in a Super Bowl win? The Seahawks shocked just about everyone last year. And yet again, they’...
Tuesday Evening Headlines
Seattle police are looking into multiple shootings in the Belltown neighborhood over the weekend, British Columbia, Canada announces new bor...
Sound Transit needs federal dollars to expand. That might be a problem
Sound Transit has big plans for the next several decades. But big plans have big price tags that the agency hopes to split with the federal...
Enter the lab trying to take gene editing from saving hundreds to saving millions
Today we're bringing you a special episode of KUOW's newest podcast Pocket Science. Pocket Science explores the weird and groundbreaking wor...
Jenna Hanchard's debut film stars Black girl grief, liberation, and herself
Filmmaker Jenna Hanchard honors her creative calling in her debut, "To Dress a Wound."
Finding loved ones' remains in wildfire ashes, Vancouver high school maritime program embarks on Year 2, and families reflect on impact of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Today, we’re bringing you the best from newsrooms across Washington… First, an unusual wildfire recovery organization arrived in Spokane thi...
Friday Evening Headlines
Bumbershoot visitors will see beefed up security at Seattle Center, light rail across Lake Washington is killing fish, and three Seattle res...
Casual Friday with Zaki Hamid and Andy Hurst
This week… Seattle's students are back to school after a last-minute deal. Seahawks kick-off is right around the corner. And Whidbey Island'...
Thursday Evening Headlines
Gov. Ferguson signs executive order to help with Medicaid cuts, local teen arrested for suspicion of starting deadly wildfire, and Rep. Mari...
After 50 years, Wild Waves' last splash is on Monday
Wild Waves in Federal Way is closing for good on Monday. Seattle Now partnered with Vanishing Seattle's Cynthia Brothers talk about what the...