From smart tech to collaborative learning spaces to eco-friendly features, here’s how Washington schools are being outfitted for the 21st century.
Seattle artist Gregory Blackstock dies at 77
Gregory Blackstock created hundreds of distinctive, catalog-like drawings, and his work was the focus of several documentaries, a book and more.
Comedians create what’s believed to be PNW’s first disability-focused comedy festival
The Disabled List Comedy Festival, which organizers believe is the first disability-focused comedy festival in the Pacific Northwest, takes place Jan. 27-28.
Bills to create solutions to missing and murdered Indigenous women
State lawmakers are proposing to extend a state task force and to create a new cold case unit to investigate missing and murdered Indigenous women and people.
Seattle Rep’s ‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’ captures what it’s like to be a teen
Karen Rodriguez gives a fully realized performance as 15-year-old Júlia in Seattle Rep’s purposeful staging of this adaptation of a young-adult novel.
WA could ban use of cancer-causing chemicals in makeup, hair care
After a study found harmful chemicals in products marketed to people of color, lawmakers want to make Washington one of the first states with sweeping protections related to cosmetics.
Rant and Rave: Reader frustrated by drivers who litter
RANT to the drivers who throw cans, bottles, cups and bags out in the roads. This is YOUR city, let’s try to be proud of the clean streets. RAVE to a good Samaritan. A note of gratitude to the customer in a Lynnwood fabric store who overheard me asking…
Ukraine promises zero tolerance on corruption as minister detained
A top ally of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday corrupt officials would be rounded up and jailed as part of a zero tolerance policy, after anti-corruption police said on Sunday they had detained the country’s deputy infrastructure …
Morning Weather Forecast – 1/24/23
A Hard Freeze Warning is in effect this morning for the Valley. We’ll top out in the upper-50s today.
Northeast Philadelphia house fire leaves multiple people injured, displaced
Officials say at least five people were injured and 12 displaced after flames tore through a home in Northeast Philadelphia.