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Salmon advocates ask to include healthy ecosystems in Columbia River Treaty
The United States and Canada will renegotiate how to handle flood control and hydropower on the Columbia River. However, salmon advocates also want negotiators to consider the health of the Columbia River ecosystem.
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No one's getting the updated Covid booster shots — and that has public health officials worried
Public health officials want people to hurry up and get their updated Covid booster shots. But so far, not many people have.
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Fight leads to shooting outside U District bar
University of Washington students are one week into the school year, and already, some are concerned for their safety after a shooting near campus.
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The last of the Salish Sea reefnetters don't want to be the last
Only 12 commercial fishing captains hold permits to go reefnet fishing in the Pacific Northwest out of a fleet that once numbered in the hundreds. The distinctive technique of reefnet fishing dates back thousands of years as a traditional Indigenous method to catch salmon. Its practitioners today say the gear should be the preferred way to harvest healthy salmon runs while avoiding fragile stocks.
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Mariners fans celebrate a walk-off to the playoffs after waiting two decades
Tens of thousands of baseball fans around Seattle, many of whom weren’t alive the last time the Mariners went to the postseason, watched Friday night as the team ended the longest active playoff drought in professional sports. The dramatic walkoff homerun win was the storybook moment fans have been waiting for for twenty-one years.
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Republicans and Democrats vie for Latino voters in the Northwest midterms
After former President Donald Trump made gains with Latinos nationally in 2020, both parties started paying closer attention. And as the 2022 fall elections inch closer, campaigners across the Pacific Northwest are trying to capture a larger share of these voters.
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New technology could keep wildfire smoke out of wine
In 2020 Western wildfires gave the grapes grown for wine in the region an ashy and smokey taste. This year, Washington is expecting a record harvest, but vintners are still figuring out the best way to deal with the impact of smoke.
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What to do about low Black homeownership in Washington state
One local leader has been thinking a lot about a report that came out last week, which revealed low homeownership among Washington’s Black families, as compared to white families. Michael Brown, leader of the Seattle Foundation's Black Home Initiative, said the report is evidence that the region's wealth is not being shared.
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Why is a convicted sex offender with false credentials running a King County-funded youth program?
As Saleem Robinson tells it, he used to run the streets of Chicago. Now he runs a nonprofit in Seattle for vulnerable young people.
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Seattle's Viet-Wah supermarket closes permanently
The Asian food supermarket has operated at this location along South Jackson Street for nearly four decades
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A look ahead to fall season arts and culture inspirations
‘It's really original, and really gripping, and I'm just so excited for it.’
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Election fraud claims are driving polarization in the midterm elections
Claims of election fraud have been increasing since the 2020 election, and they’re having an impact on the upcoming midterm elections in November.