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Seattle police have released photos of a suspect in the fatal stabbing Sunday night of a 19-year-old University of Washington student.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-police-release-photos-of-suspect-in-uw-murder
#KUOW #News #UniversityOfWashington #Crime #Seattle #Transgender #Crime

The coffee giant said in a state-required notification the cuts were the result of a reorganization of the technology department at the Starbucks Support Center in Seattle.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/starbucks-lays-off-61-seattle-tech-workers
#KUOW #News #Business #Seattle #Employment #Technology #Starbucks

Agency CEO Kelly Kinnison said new controls put in place in the two weeks since the audit's release “are designed to ensure sustained compliance, transparency, and accountability.”
https://www.kuow.org/stories/king-county-s-embattled-regional-homeless-agency-implements-new-controls-on-corporate-credit-cards-gift-cards
#KUOW #News #KingCounty #Homeless

City and tribal officials are seeking emergency permission to fix a crumbling levee near the coastal city of Stanwood, Washington, before disaster strikes.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/emergency-repairs-sought-for-damaged-stanwood-levee-north-of-seattle
#KUOW #News #Environment #Dams #ClimateChange #PugetSound #Agriculture

Last year, the King County Auditor's Office released a damning report about lax financial oversight at the Department of Community and Human Services. It found potential fraud and numerous improper payments to contractors for four youth programs.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/investigation-points-to-glaring-conflict-of-interest-in-king-county-department
#KUOW #News #KingCounty #Government

Board members of the troubled King County regional homelessness agency appear committed to correcting its overspending and weak financial systems, rejecting calls from other officials to abandon it entirely.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/king-homelessness-agency-board-votes-to-tighten-pursestrings-amid-fallout-from-damning-audit
#KUOW #News #Politics #KingCounty #Seattle #Homeless

In the wake of a new forensic audit commissioned by Seattle and King County, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said she has “serious concerns” about financial management at the troubled King County Regional Homelessness Authority, and that “all options are on the table.”
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-mayor-says-all-options-are-on-the-table-for-regional-homelessness-authority
#KUOW #News #Seattle #KingCounty #Homeless

More illegal drug users in Washington state are smoking drugs rather than injecting them.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/more-drug-users-are-smoking-rather-than-injecting-uw-study-finds
#KUOW #News #Health #Drugs #Fentanyl #UniversityOfWashington

The King County Regional Homelessness Authority has had a rocky tenure, and now there are questions about its future in the wake of a new audit released Wednesday.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/citing-audit-as-last-straw-officials-seek-to-dissolve-king-county-regional-homelessness-authority
#KUOW #News #Government #KingCounty #Government #SeattleCityCouncil #Homeless

Wilson, whom the Council cannot remove from office, oversees the department responsible for appraising property values in the county. The three-term tax assessor has been at the center of an ongoing case of alleged stalking and harassment that ended his bid for higher office last year.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/king-county-tax-assessor-john-arthur-wilson-faces-new-calls-to-resign-amid-stalking-scandal
#KUOW #News #KingCounty #Elections #Government #Politics #Politics

Seattle City Light is set to spend millions on fish passage, habitat restoration, and compensation to tribes in the coming decades after the city’s leaders greenlit a massive agreement concerning its dams on the upper Skagit River on Tuesday, April 7.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-to-sign-agreement-concerning-skagit-river-dams
#KUOW #News #Dams #Environment #Seattle #Salmon #Tribes

The King County Council voted on Tuesday to ban civil immigration operations from staging and processing on certain county property.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/king-county-limits-immigration-operations-on-county-property-moves-away-from-legal-term-alien
#KUOW #News #Government #Immigration #KingCounty #Parks

King County employees are pushing back hard over their return-to-office mandate, with questions both pragmatic and philosophical.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/king-county-staffers-say-new-executive-s-return-to-office-push-ignores-crucial-details
#KUOW #News #Government #Government #Politics #KingCounty

First the Mariners come within a game of reaching their first World Series. Now, the Seattle Seahawks are the top seed in the National Football Conference (NFC) and favored to win their second ever Super Bowl.
But are Seattle sports fans getting their hopes up only to have them dashed by yet another decade of heartache and disappointment?
https://www.kuow.org/stories/are-we-on-the-cusp-of-a-golden-era-in-seattle-sports
#KUOW #News #Sports #Sports #SeattleSeahawks #Seattle #SeattleMariners

The Pacific Northwest’s highest peak is a little less lofty than it used to be, according to a new study.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/mount-rainier-shrinking-just-a-little-new-study-finds
#KUOW #News #Environment #MountRainier #ClimateChange

The Toronto Blue Jays had 18 hits, including five home runs, all within the first three pitches of an at-bat in a 13-4 rout of the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night that pulled them to 2-1 in the AL Championship Series.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-mariners-give-up-18-hits-as-blue-jays-swing-early-in-count-to-close-in-alcs
#KUOW #News #SeattleMariners #Sports

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Seattle) said Friday that her party faces a "terrible choice" between forcing the federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1 or allowing Republican-backed cuts to health benefits to take effect.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-rep-jayapal-laments-terrible-choice-between-federal-goverment-shutdown-looming-healthcare-cuts-washington-state
#KUOW #News #Politics #PramilaJayapal #Congress #Government #DonaldTrump #GovernmentShutdown #HealthCare

The contract to run the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma is up for renewal this week. As the current contract between ICE and the private prison company GEO Group expires, lawmakers are pushing for transparency after years of human rights concerns at the facility.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/as-10-year-contract-to-run-tacoma-ice-center-ends-lawmakers-demand-transparency-for-the-next-one
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #PramilaJayapal #Immigration #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Immigration

An Arizona Republican state lawmaker on Wednesday called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman from Washington state because she urged people upset with President Donald Trump to protest in the streets.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/arizona-lawmaker-calls-for-wa-congresswoman-to-be-executed-for-urging-trump-protests
#KUOW #News #PramilaJayapal #Politics