Isolde Raftery
Online Editor
About
Isolde Raftery is online managing editor at KUOW. She was tapped as the station's first online editor in 2013 and was promoted in 2018.
Previously, she worked for NBCNews.com and the Columbian and Skagit Valley Herald newspapers here in Washington state. She has also written extensively for The New York Times, where she was a fellow on the Metro desk in 2010, The Chicago Tribune, Seattlepi.com and Seattle Business magazine. Born in Ireland to an Irish dad and a French mom, Isolde grew up mostly in Seattle, where she attended James A. Garfield High School. She later graduated from Barnard College in New York City and received a master's degree in literary nonfiction from the University of Oregon.
Stories
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The end is nigh. The rain has come
Cold drops of rain have started to fall.
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More snow this morning! And more snow coming!
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Luke Skywalker himself tells Seattle how to survive snowpocalypse
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Temps drop and Seattle panics: What about the hummingbirds?!
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As snow falls, Seattle stocks up on de-icer, avocados and ... weed
Sales were also way up at Hashtag Cannabis, the marijuana dispensary with a store in Fremont. Sales on Thursday and Friday were double what the company expects for this time of year.
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Seattle hears snow forecast, descends on grocery stores like the apocalypse is coming
At the Safeway in the University District, salt was completely sold out. “And it’s not just the rock salt,” said Steve Bailey, who was stocking shelves. “What was weird is that every single table salt was bought in one day.”
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UW student who fell on campus died of natural causes, medical examiner says
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Seattle so pretty in snow: Photos you shared with us
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PHOTOS: Snow day! School is out and sleds are in
This was supposed to be a story about how Seattle's long-awaited, deep bore tunnel is FINALLY OPEN.
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More than 100 King County schools don’t meet measles vaccination standards
...And how King County compares with Clark County, heart of a measles outbreak.