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  KUOW Blog

  Remote work continues to thrive among Seattle commuters

  Remote work shot up to 46% of Seattle commuters in 2021, amid ongoing pandemic measures. That share held strong through 2022.

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  KUOW Blog

  Sunshine and warm weather arrive in Seattle, along with allergy season

  The sun is peeking out for St. Patrick's day and highs Saturday are expected to top 60 degrees. But the leprechaun brought a trick with his sun-shining pot of gold. The weather is triggering the beginning of allergy season.

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  KUOW Blog

  Seattle is getting a major league cricket team

  While the team's name is the Seattle Orcas, it's more accurate to say the team represents Western Washington, if not the Northwest, among franchises in emerging Major League Cricket.

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  KUOW Blog

  Former Sonics star Shawn Kemp fired in self-defense, lawyers say

  Former Seattle SuperSonics forward Shawn Kemp acted in self-defense when he exchanged gunfire in a Washington parking lot while trying to retrieve a stolen cell phone and other items, his attorneys said Thursday.

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  KUOW Newsroom

  The cherry trees are safe outside of Pike Place Market — for now

  The city of Seattle has postponed its plans to chop down the cherry trees outside of Pike Place Market, after preservation activists petitioned the mayor and city council in the 11th hour, asking them to "stay the execution."
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Seattle could get 2 new off-leash dog parks

  Seattle’s Parks and Recreation Department said this week it wants to add a couple of new off-leash dog areas to some city parks. The first step in the multiyear process will be studying 30 potential locations around Seattle.
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  KUOW Blog

  Why Emerald City Comic Con nixed its Homegrown section for 2023

  For years, Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con has featured a space for local creators, artists, vendors and more — the Homegrown section. But for its 2023 event, organizers opted not to include the section, which came as a surprise to vendors who relied on it.

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  Soundside

  Searching for home. Seattle author publishes first book of short stories

  This week, Seattle’s Ronit Plank is releasing a short-story collection, “Home is a Made Up Place.” Plank is known as a memoirist. Her first book, "When She Comes Back," documented her relationship with her mother, who left Plank as a child to join a cult.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Celebrate Black literature and history all year long at Seattle Public Library's Douglass-Truth Branch

  Seattle is home to what some may consider a hidden treasure at the Douglass-Truth Branch of the Seattle Public Library: one of the largest collections of African-American literature and history on the West Coast.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Seattle renames block to honor D'Vonne Pickett Jr.

  The city of Seattle Thursday renamed a block on Union Street for community activist and business leader D'Vonne Pickett Jr., who was fatally shot waiting at a bus stop in the Central District last October.

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