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Candidate for Seattle School District 4: Ballard, Queen Anne, Magnolia, BelltownOccupation: Director of development at the Museum of Flight, former City…

LaCrese Green

Candidate for Seattle School District 5: Capitol Hill, Central Area, Leschi, Beacon Hill, DowntownOccupation: Retired, volunteer tutor for Ethiopian…

Hospitals, Nurses Clash Over How To Keep Patients From Falling

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Seattle Police Officer Louis Chan, center, talks with a man in Ballard about his erratic and threatening behavior. Chan is partnered with a social worker to help deescalate volatile situations.

Seattle mayor candidates agree: There's still work to be done in Seattle policing

When it comes to policing, there’s a lot of history in the race for Seattle mayor.Two of the candidates, Jenny Durkan and Mike McGinn, have faced off…

Captured climber recalls his escape: I ‘watched him fall out of sight’

Tommy Caldwell understands risk and adventure better than most. Two years ago, he became the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of El Capitan in…

Kara Bernstine, who is homeless, said she knows the Jungle homeless encampment isn't perfectly safe, but it felt safer than other places in the city. Click on this photo to see more images of the Jungle.

4 things to know about Mayor Ed Murray's homeless levy

This summer, Seattle voters will likely be tasked with a big decision. Should the city should double what it spends combating homelessness?The levy,…

Celestino Rocha, a.k.a. The Fish Killer, has tattoos that say Fear No Fish. He takes fishing in lakes like Angle Lake very seriously and will teach you if you ask.

Welcome to Angle Lake, light rail passengers

A new light rail station opens at Seatac’s Angle Lake this weekend. A lot of train riders are asking: What’s Angle Lake?It’s a lake in Seatac that’s…

For Tableau, a software company in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood, the bohemian neighborhood is part of the recruiting spiel.

Welcome to our funky Seattle neighborhood! Er, we mean company

On hot summer Fridays, workers from the software company Tableau gather at a dock and jump in the water.The company is based in Seattle’s Fremont…

A woman named Kamin and her six children lived in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya where Faisa Muse, the producer of this story, also lived before moving to Seattle. The woman had been separated from her husband during the conflict in Somalia.

How My Bookworm Sister Left Our Refugee Camp

My sister Nasteha fought hard to get an education.We grew up in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. Our parents migrated there because of the conflict in…

Bill and Cindy Wheeler have lived on Lake Sawyer for 30 years, but they don't know the weir master.

Searching for the mysterious 'weir master' of Black Diamond

Our region’s rapid growth is straining our lakes, especially little lakes on the fringes of urban areas. When growth approaches, the communities around…

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