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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…

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…

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…

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