The Latest Environment How to 'take care of business' when your wastewater treatment site becomes a flood zone King County Executive Girmay Zahilay gave a shout out this week to a county employee who went above and beyond in the midst of area flooding. Tyler Stiltner is the senior operator in charge at the wastewater treatment site in Carnation. He told KUOW’s Paige Browning about what happened. Paige Browning Flooding in WA: Skagit County's 40-year old flood maps and a dog kennel evacuation Lulu Ramadan of the Seattle Times talks to us about Skagit County's flood maps, which haven't been updated in 40 years. Plus, we hear from Kristiana de Leon, who evacuated malamutes last week amid flooding along the Puyallup River. Maleeha Syed Wednesday Evening Headlines King County crews working to shore up damaged levees, Highway 2 closure has Leavenworth businesses worried about tourism, and Rep. Dan Newhouse to retire. Patricia Murphy Politics FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he will step down in January Bongino's tenure was at times tumultuous, including a clash with Justice Department leadership over the Epstein files. But it also involved the arrest of a suspect in the Jan. 6 pipe bomber case. Ryan Lucas Politics Can taxing millionaires fix WA’s broken budget? Hans Anderson Remembering Michele Singer Reiner: Photographer, film producer and activist The photographer, film producer and activist was killed alongside her husband, director and actor Rob Reiner on Sunday. Chloe Veltman World Chinese man who secretly filmed detention camps in China faces deportation from U.S. A Chinese man who filmed alleged detention camps in China faces possible deportation to Uganda under the Trump administration. Emily Feng National The U.S. birth rate is on the decline. But not for women 40 and older Although the U.S. birth rate is on the decline, the number of women having babies in one age group has increased. Those new mothers are 40 and older. Bek Shackelford World EU leaders decide on whether to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine's war effort European Union leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday to decide on using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine's war effort. Teri Schultz Latin America Venezuela's government says Trump's move to block tankers is an 'outrageous threat' President Trump says he's imposing a ban on all sanctioned oil tankers leaving Venezuela. Venezuela's government is calling this an 'outrageous threat' intended to rob the country of its oil wealth. Carrie Kahn Prev 491 of 1645 Next Sponsored
Environment How to 'take care of business' when your wastewater treatment site becomes a flood zone King County Executive Girmay Zahilay gave a shout out this week to a county employee who went above and beyond in the midst of area flooding. Tyler Stiltner is the senior operator in charge at the wastewater treatment site in Carnation. He told KUOW’s Paige Browning about what happened. Paige Browning
Flooding in WA: Skagit County's 40-year old flood maps and a dog kennel evacuation Lulu Ramadan of the Seattle Times talks to us about Skagit County's flood maps, which haven't been updated in 40 years. Plus, we hear from Kristiana de Leon, who evacuated malamutes last week amid flooding along the Puyallup River. Maleeha Syed
Wednesday Evening Headlines King County crews working to shore up damaged levees, Highway 2 closure has Leavenworth businesses worried about tourism, and Rep. Dan Newhouse to retire. Patricia Murphy
Politics FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he will step down in January Bongino's tenure was at times tumultuous, including a clash with Justice Department leadership over the Epstein files. But it also involved the arrest of a suspect in the Jan. 6 pipe bomber case. Ryan Lucas
Remembering Michele Singer Reiner: Photographer, film producer and activist The photographer, film producer and activist was killed alongside her husband, director and actor Rob Reiner on Sunday. Chloe Veltman
World Chinese man who secretly filmed detention camps in China faces deportation from U.S. A Chinese man who filmed alleged detention camps in China faces possible deportation to Uganda under the Trump administration. Emily Feng
National The U.S. birth rate is on the decline. But not for women 40 and older Although the U.S. birth rate is on the decline, the number of women having babies in one age group has increased. Those new mothers are 40 and older. Bek Shackelford
World EU leaders decide on whether to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine's war effort European Union leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday to decide on using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine's war effort. Teri Schultz
Latin America Venezuela's government says Trump's move to block tankers is an 'outrageous threat' President Trump says he's imposing a ban on all sanctioned oil tankers leaving Venezuela. Venezuela's government is calling this an 'outrageous threat' intended to rob the country of its oil wealth. Carrie Kahn