Mother Road

In 2015, photographer Mike Kane met Ericka, a sex worker on Aurora Avenue North in Seattle. Ericka was selling sex to support her heroin and meth…

Over the past few months, a team of KUOW reporters has explored the impact of growth along Highway 99 from North Seattle down to Tukwila. Reporter Joshua…

Mike West likes to watch for someone from out of town to walk by on Tukwila International Boulevard. He leans out the door of the auto shop he's occupied…

Meet Ali Jama. He owns a jewelry store with a clever name: Haveniceday Jewelry.“A simple name that everybody can remember and say it without having any…

The city of Tukwila has spent years trying to turn a section of old highway 99 into a dense, walkable neighborhood. But it’s not easy to redefine a road.…

Victoria Marshall was born in 1945, and she’s full of stories. She can talk about the four years she was homeless, about raising kids, or about her deep…

For years, Tukwila’s stretch of highway 99 was known for its crime: drug sales, prostitution, burglaries and violence. Then one morning in 2013, hundreds…

Everything had to work perfectly.More than 400 law enforcement were ready. Moving trucks were rented, driven into a church parking lot. The operation…

It started with street trees. Tukwila wanted to plant some along state Route 99 to slow down traffic and beautify the area.But the state said no. Trees,…

Tukwila, a small city of about 20,000 people, punches above its weight.That's partly because it's willing to throw elbows around, seizing property by any…