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Laurelhurst Elementary in northeast Seattle.

To understand white liberal racism, read these private emails

On a gray day last October, teachers across Seattle wore a shirt that read BLACK LIVES MATTER.They knew there might be criticism. John Muir Elementary in…

Jane, 7, drew this version of a climate-friendly Seattle for a KUOW drawing contest.

Want Seattle to be more climate-friendly? Here’s a to-do list

In "The Burning Question," KUOW takes a close look at Seattle’s goal of carbon neutrality and what it would take to get there. It turns out a lot of those…

The spillway doors at the Howard Hanson Dam. A red mark on the left door indicates the highest water the dam ever saw, in 2009. This revealed weaknesses in the dam that have since been fixed, but storms could bring higher water someday.

This dam protects jobs south of Seattle. Someday it won't

The Green River hasn’t flooded in more than half a century.It used to all the time. Every other year or so, the valley filled with water and turned into…

Thornton Wilder, the novelist. Storyteller Gary Heyde wrote him letters before his death.

'He Thought It Was You': A Day With Thornton Wilder's Sister

In 1975, I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.Someone handed me a copy of Thornton Wilder’s “The Eighth Day.” When I finished that novel, someone…

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Mt. Rainier

Sea-Tac wants to curb carbon without limiting your travel. That's a steep climb

Business at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has been booming, and so has its carbon pollution. Airport officials say they can eliminate the…

Outside the home of her foster sister Renee Davis, Danielle Bargala breaks down in tears while talking about how Davis' young children are living with different families. Davis, who was pregnant, was shot at her Muckleshoot reservation home last October.

Pregnant mom calls for help, ends up killed by police. Her tribe wants answers

The young mom texted her boyfriend: “Come and get the girls or call 911. I’m about to shoot myself.”Renee Davis was five months pregnant. She lay in bed,…

Liz Garcia and her daughters on Halloween circa 2001 or 2002. The photo was taken in the apartment where Garcia was raped a few years later.

Her rapist was convicted because of a rape kit. So why are so many kits untested?

Liz Garcia was at home, checking out her hair in the bathroom mirror. She saw the door open and thought it was her mom or dad who just popped by.Then…

Rafaelle Del Pesce, 9, looks toward the sun during the solar eclipse on Monday, August 21, 2017, at the Pacific Science Center on 2nd Ave., in Seattle.

PHOTOS: Unforgettable scenes in Seattle (and beyond) this year

As a round-up to 2017, we had our KUOW photographer Megan Farmer pick out some of the most memorable moments she captured. They paint a picture of a…

Tiffany Hicks places her hand on her newborn son Elijah as he sleeps on Sunday, September 3, 2017, in their room at Mary's Place in Seattle.

Born without a home in Seattle

Tiffany Hicks rode a Greyhound bus for four and a half days to get to Seattle. Her brother had recently moved here and said there were jobs. So Hicks left…

The writer K.E. Leong and her baby. "Single parenting is filled with so many unexpected adventures, so many of them terrible," she wanted to tell a friend who asked about being a single mom.

Single Parenting: It's Like Drowning And Being On Fire At The Same Time

When my friend tells me she’s thinking about having a baby on her own, my mind flashes immediately to that January morning in 2011 when, as I just settled…

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