Casey Martin
Reporter
About
Casey Martin is a general assignment reporter who has covered everything from political protests to electric scooters. He is almost always out in the field where the news happens. Casey has reported on extremism, houselessness, politics, and Seattle’s nightlife.
He got his start in radio at KBCS Community Radio in Bellevue and is a proud graduate of the Transom Traveling Workshop on Catalina Island.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Stories
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Investigators find faulty part in seaplane that crashed near Whidbey Island, warn others
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy says the part of the plane that failed was an actuator, which helps stabilize the plane in the air. An investigation found that this part didn't break during the crash. Instead, it appears the part wasn't assembled correctly and led the pilot to lose control of the seaplane.
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Health
Breathing the world’s worst air
Western Washington currently has some of the world’s dirtiest air due to smoke from wildfires in the Cascade Mountains. Fires have been burning for weeks, but people living close to the fire line say these past few days have been the worst conditions so far this year.
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Business
A neighborhood ice rink says goodbye after 60 years
This week Seattle says goodbye to an ice skating rink that's been around for generations. Owners of the Highland Ice Arena in Shoreline say it’s a bittersweet end for the family business.
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Crime
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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Arts & Life
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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Home run: Mariners heading to the playoffs
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Business
Riding the first train from Seattle to Canada since the pandemic started
The Amtrak Cascades train route from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C. resumed this week for the first time in more than two years. While the border has been open to cars and buses for months, Monday’s train trip was the first since the pandemic began.
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Education
Seattle teachers approve new contract
Union members voted on the contract Monday evening.
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Memorial services being planned for 10 people lost in floatplane crash
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Health
What happened and why? Federal investigators begin search of seaplane wreckage
The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that a team of investigators had arrived on Whidbey Island to begin investigating the cause of Sunday’s seaplane crash in Mutiny Bay.