Kate Walters
ReporterYear started with KUOW: 2015
Kate is a daily news reporter at KUOW. Originally from Australia, Kate studied journalism at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before coming to work in public radio. Kate began her career as a reporter with WXXI Public Radio in Rochester, NY, where she worked as part of a Local Journalism Center (LJC) called the Innovation Trail. At KUOW, she started as a producer on The Record before joining the news desk.
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Drive south on Highway 99 and you’ll go straight through the middle of Seattle’s South Park neighborhood.This is a neighborhood that’s long had a large… -
Nonprofit developers plan to build more than 300 affordable apartments in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood. The project is slated to go on surplus land… -
What will happen to the Battery Street tunnel after the viaduct comes down?This is a question KUOW has received multiple times as the new Highway 99… -
Eleven-year-old Nina Parry noticed a man sitting outside her neighborhood QFC. She and her mom brought him food. But there were others.“Ever since I can…
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The RapidRide E Line is Seattle's most crowded bus route, with more than 17,000 boardings each weekday. It connects Aurora Avenue North to downtown.It’s a… -
Have you ever wondered what it's like to work at a cemetery? Here's your chance to find out. Damaso Garcia and Aaron Sholes work at the Evergreen Washelli… -
Seattle’s biggest cemetery begins with a tragic story. City founders David Denny and Louisa Boren had given birth to twins. One of them, a boy, died as an… -
The Licton Springs Tiny House Village on Aurora Avenue North in Seattle differs from the other city-authorized homeless encampments. Of the six sanctioned… -
The motels on Aurora Avenue are a throwback to a Seattle of days gone by, with their weather-beaten signs and green vacancy lights flashing.The drivers… -
If someone you love wants to hurt themselves, what can you do? If the underlying cause is mental illness, one option is to have them involuntarily…
