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For many, the price of health insurance is about to skyrocket

If you work for yourself or your employer doesn’t provide health coverage, you likely get your insurance through the state’s health exchange. Starting next year, the cost

Monday Evening Headlines

Elected officials and business leaders met in Seattle to talk about boosting the local economy, several unions in the state are closer to settling contracts, and Macklemo

Canada's ports are poised to dominate West Coast container shipping

The US and Canada are in a full trade war. Turns out, Canada’s been prepping for years.  The country’s been increasing container import and export infrastructure on t

Pessimist or prophet? A decades-old critique of big tech is back on bookshelves

One of the hottest books in Seattle right now came out 26 years ago. Cyberselfish first hit bookstores in 2000, when new technologies seemed to be emerging every other da

San Juan Islands residents brave ferry lines, medevacs to get to the doctor, ways to stay cool in Seattle without A/C, Northwest researchers develop vaccines to prevent opioid overdose and support addiction recovery

Today, we’re bringing you the best from the KUOW Newsroom. First, people who live in the San Juan Islands in northwest Washington state enjoy a uniquely remote way of l

Friday Evening Headlines

Seattle leaders honor 9/11 victims and first responders, WA heat deaths last year may be four times higher than CDC numbers, and speed cameras are coming to three Seattle

Casual Friday with Vivian McCall and Betty Wetter

This week… Sound Transit says Light Rail to the eastside is killing fish.  Seattle Public Schools is getting a little fancier with its new lunch options. And Beth's

Thursday Evening Headlines

Regulators won't allow Seattle cement plant to burn more tires, ACA insurance plans will get more expensive next year, and the Seahawks win a nail biter.  It’s our dail

ICE is quietly detaining more people in WA

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are making an effort to draw less attention to their work. But arrests in Washington are increasing and tactics for keeping

Wednesday Evening Headlines

Mayor Wilson addresses gun violence, WA sues the Trump Administration over endangered species, and Amazon's facing another class action lawsuit. It’s our daily roundup

The Seahawks won it all. Can they do it again?

How do you follow up a dream season that ended in a Super Bowl win? The Seahawks shocked just about everyone last year. And yet again, they’re being overlooked by the nat

Tuesday Evening Headlines

Seattle police are looking into multiple shootings in the Belltown neighborhood over the weekend, Washington is joining a lawsuit against the streamlining of new data cen

Sound Transit needs federal dollars to expand. That might be a problem

Sound Transit has big plans for the next several decades. But big plans have big price tags that the agency hopes to split with the federal government. The problem is

Enter the lab trying to take gene editing from saving hundreds to saving millions

Today we're bringing you a special episode of KUOW's newest podcast Pocket Science. Pocket Science explores the weird and groundbreaking work scientists are doing right

Jenna Hanchard's debut film stars Black girl grief, liberation, and herself

As a new mom, juggling new identities, Jenna Hanchard began to wonder, “how do I come home to myself?” That question became a creative spark that eventually led to her

Finding loved ones' remains in wildfire ashes, Vancouver high school maritime program embarks on Year 2, and families reflect on impact of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Today, we’re bringing you the best from newsrooms across Washington… First, an unusual wildfire recovery organization arrived in Spokane this past weekend. The Alta Her

Friday Evening Headlines

Bumbershoot visitors will see beefed up security at Seattle Center, light rail across Lake Washington is killing fish, and three Seattle research institutions are splitti

Casual Friday with Zaki Hamid and Andy Hurst

This week… Seattle's students are back to school after a last-minute deal.  Seahawks kick-off is right around the corner. And Whidbey Island's most famous, witch-y

Thursday Evening Headlines

Gov. Ferguson signs executive order to help with Medicaid cuts, local teen arrested for suspicion of starting deadly wildfire, and Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez could face

After 50 years, Wild Waves' last splash is on Monday

Wild Waves in Federal Way is closing for good on Monday. Seattle Now partnered with Vanishing Seattle’s Cynthia Brothers talk about what the Pacific Northwest  water pa