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Graduate Says Hazing Is A Part Of Garfield High School Tradition

When Seattle Police officers and Garfield High School Principal Ted Howard arrived at the Arboretum last Friday afternoon, they found more than 100…

This U.S. Geological survey map shows the hot zones for potential earthquakes in the U.S.

Seattle's Faults: Maps That Highlight Our Shaky Ground

KUOW's Deborah Wang produced this story as part of her 2010 series “On Shaky Ground.”The rocks and mud of the Pacific Northwest tell the story of much…

From left, Damian Bogas, Evan Potter and Keegan Obrien work on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Walrus and the Carpenter in Seattle.

In a city with $15 minimum wage, do I still need to leave a tip?

KUOW listener Derek Hanson wanted to know, in a city with a $15 per hour minimum wage, "do I still need to tip?"The short answer is a full-throated yes.…

Orphans at the Ghenh Rang Orphanage in South Vietnam before Operation Babylift. Julie Davis, who lives in Minneapolis, belies that's her looking at the camera.

Finding The Nun Who Saved Me In Vietnam

Julie Davis, who was airlifted to Seattle from Saigon in 1975, shares her story. This week marks the 40th anniversary of Operation Babylift, the mass…

Kenny Wayne Gunner plays guitar in downtown Bremerton at lunch time

Navy skips permit for Bremerton boat scraping; environmentalists sue

Earlier this year, the Navy scraped the hull of the U.S.S. Independence to prepare it for dismantlement. That likely released heavy metals into the waters…

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Washington members start the Women's March on Saturday, January 20, 2018, on Pine St., in Seattle.

PHOTOS: Thousands take over the streets for Seattle Women's March

Tens of thousands of people took to Seattle streets Saturday for the Women's March 2.0. A stream of demonstrators was already heading towards central…

The bridge at Deception Pass, between Whidbey Island and Fidalgo Islands. It got its name from Captain George Vancouver, who felt deceived by the width of the waterway.

Cape Disappointment to Deception Pass: What’s up with the depressing names?

Anyone who has road-tripped around Washington state might have noticed a depressing trend: Cape Disappointment. Point No Point. Deception Pass.…

Sara Jacobsen, left, never gave much thought to the Chilkat robe hanging over her dining room table. Until she took a class in high school, when she saw another robe that looked eerily similar to the one at home.

Seattle teen calls out her dad’s Native American art. He learns she’s right

Sara Jacobsen, 19, grew up eating family dinners beneath a stunning Native American robe.Not that she gave it much thought. Until, that is, her senior…

Teacher Reid Sundbad teaches P.E. at Chinook Middle School. He also meets with a group of Latino boys three times a week for a class called Advisory.

Who’s Your School Dad? Highline Wants Kids To Feel Bonded

It’s the last day in Reid Sundblad’s P.E. class near Sea-Tac Airport, and a few kids are really bummed.“Oh, don’t cry,” Sundblad says. “It’s been a…

What Service Providers Want You To Know About Helping The Homeless

To complement our series Seattle’s Homeless: No End In Sight, we asked organizations who work with homeless people around King County to participate in an…

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