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An excerpt from a speech by Marcus Green, founder of South Seattle Emerald. Green spoke on Jan. 15 at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle.Inauguration…

Growing up in Seattle I spent summer evenings like this picking blackberries.These days I spend more time trying to fend off blackberry vines in my…

I have been stopped eight times by the Seattle Police Department. I wasn't speeding nor did I have an issue with my car.Four stops occurred in my…

The birth of Camie Goldhammer's first daughter did not go as planned. The labor had gone long, and Goldhammer, a social worker, ended up having an…

If anyone should be a traditional farmer, it would be Alan Mesman. His family has been farming for six generations near La Conner, Washington. But last…

Seattle is surrounded by water. It’s one of the reasons why people move here.But even in rainy, water-abundant Seattle, the region’s astronomical growth…

Oysters are a cornerstone of Pacific Northwest cuisine. But there was a time when our region’s oysters were in trouble, all but obliterated by…

When writer Knute Berger was a kid in the 1960s, vacationing on Shaw Island, his family had a creative way of dumping some of their trash.“We’d take the…

Listener Beth Ann Johnson asked Local Wonder about Seattle's chocolate industry, and reporter Ruby de Luna agreed to report. (We know. Tough…

“What is a day in the life of a Seattle bridge tender?”Laura Osterbrock of Magnolia asked that question as part of KUOW’s Local Wonder project.Part of the…