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Why Northwest Mills Want China To Buy Lumber Instead Of Logs

Mark Elston followed his father into the timber industry back when business was booming."When I started, you could really mess things up and still make…

School Districts Explore Solutions For Too Many Portable Classrooms

SPOKANE, Washington — Teachers at Spokane’s Jefferson Elementary don’t have to look far to know what they left behind.The school’s old portable classrooms…

Justin Ingram ate two heaping bowls of cereal, a bowl of oatmeal, two pieces of toast with butter and a rare pint of ice cream for breakfast at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Ballard on Tuesday morning. Still, he says he's lost 50 pounds while homeless

Ballard Homeless Hygiene Facility Stalled By Neighbors

A facility in Ballard where homeless men and women can wash their clothes and take a shower has received the city's blessing, but the process has been…

Mary Ann and Bill McDermond have lost friends over their opposition to the massive project that's being built in Black Diamond

'It's like city council meets Jerry Springer' in a divided Black Diamond

Mary Ann and Bill McDermand moved to Black Diamond 23 years ago for the peace, tranquility and the strong sense of community. Their kids used to play with…

My Parenting Advice: Don't Kill Them

Editor's note: This essay contains strong language.Having had kids before most of my friends, I’ve now reached the stage in life when many in my circle…

Seattle Preschool Program teacher Hien Do, center, dances with her students on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, at the ReWA Early Learning Center at Beacon, in Seattle, Washington.

Seattle's publicly funded preschool program not hitting education goals

When former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray pitched his $81 million subsidized preschool program to voters in 2014, this was his promise: high-quality, affordable…

This man was killed by Seattle police. You probably didn’t hear his story

You know about Charleena Lyles, the mom of four who was shot by Seattle police a week ago.Last fall, a similar shooting happened the day when the Jungle,…

Dr. Bob Hughes of Seattle University and Yoshiko Harden of Seattle Central. Hughes and Harden were meeting at a Starbucks on Broadway in Seattle when someone came in and unfurled a string of racial slurs and explicitives at Harden.

9 heartbreaking responses to ‘A man shouts racial slurs at a Seattle Starbucks’

Last week we published an essay by Dr. Bob Hughes about a shocking experience at a Starbucks on Capitol Hill in Seattle.Hughes was meeting with a…

How Seattle’s big ditch got built 100 years ago

This story originally aired in 2005. We loved it so much that we dug it out again in honor of the Ballard Locks' 100 year anniversary on July 4, 2017.At…

Reporter Ashley Ahearn dug into the Northwest history of the B-17 bomber with her father, Joe Ahearn, Jr.

My Grandfather And The Plane That Changed Seattle

There’s an old photograph in my father’s office that I’ve always wondered about. In it my grandfather and nine other young airmen stand in front of their…

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