The Latest Sports PNW athletes reflect on wins and losses at the 2026 Winter Olympics The United States won 33 medals in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics that concluded Sunday. Four of those medals — two gold and two bronze — came from athletes with ties to the Northwest. KUOW super-fan Paige Browning penned this recap of how our regional athletes fared. Paige Browning No ORCA card? No problem. Credit cards now accepted to ride Seattle transit Seattle has officially launched the tap-to-pay feature for public transportation, an alternative to the ORCA card. Ruby de Luna Front Page: TSA pre-check, a potential Millionaire's Tax, and the latest with the SAVE act Every week we talk about the most fascinating stories in the news and what they say about the Pacific Northwest. We call it Front Page. Libby Denkmann At Washington State Penitentiary, incarcerated journalists find connection through a news magazine Every month at the Washington State Penitentiary, a group of incarcerated journalists meets up to pick a theme for their news magazine. The paper is called Top of the Mountain. It details the goings on in the prison as well as recipes for the food you can buy at the commissary, advice from long time residents, and interviews with the formerly incarcerated. Hans Anderson Politics GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales faces pressure from party over affair allegations The Texas Republican is facing calls from fellow House Republicans to resign, following allegations of an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide. Barbara Sprunt Monday Evening Headlines Did fraudulent sign-ins make the 'millionaire's tax' look unpopular? We remember gun safety advocate Cheryl Stumbo, and we celebrate NW athletes who won medals at the Olympics. Paige Browning New play looks at Bruce Lee's formative years in Seattle Bruce Lee's time in Seattle is the subject of a new play at Seattle Children’s Theater called Young Dragon: A Bruce Lee Story, which runs through March 22nd. Hans Anderson Politics Supporters claim fraudulent sign-ins made Washington's proposed 'millionaire's tax' look unpopular As of Monday afternoon, over 100,000 names appeared signed in as "con" on the House’s website, while less than 10,000 had signed in "pro" or "other." But several unions and pro-tax groups claim many of those names are fraudulent and are asking the state attorney general to investigate. Scott Greenstone Arts & Life Black History Month: A look back at 2016 in film and TV NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about the film and TV of a decade ago as part of a Black History Month series about the year 2016. Marc Rivers Animals With horse whinnies, there's more than meets the ear A horse's whinny is an unusually distinctive mix of sounds including both high and low frequencies, a new study in Current Biology shows. Ari Daniel 1 of 1648 Next Sponsored
Sports PNW athletes reflect on wins and losses at the 2026 Winter Olympics The United States won 33 medals in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics that concluded Sunday. Four of those medals — two gold and two bronze — came from athletes with ties to the Northwest. KUOW super-fan Paige Browning penned this recap of how our regional athletes fared. Paige Browning
No ORCA card? No problem. Credit cards now accepted to ride Seattle transit Seattle has officially launched the tap-to-pay feature for public transportation, an alternative to the ORCA card. Ruby de Luna
Front Page: TSA pre-check, a potential Millionaire's Tax, and the latest with the SAVE act Every week we talk about the most fascinating stories in the news and what they say about the Pacific Northwest. We call it Front Page. Libby Denkmann
At Washington State Penitentiary, incarcerated journalists find connection through a news magazine Every month at the Washington State Penitentiary, a group of incarcerated journalists meets up to pick a theme for their news magazine. The paper is called Top of the Mountain. It details the goings on in the prison as well as recipes for the food you can buy at the commissary, advice from long time residents, and interviews with the formerly incarcerated. Hans Anderson
Politics GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales faces pressure from party over affair allegations The Texas Republican is facing calls from fellow House Republicans to resign, following allegations of an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide. Barbara Sprunt
Monday Evening Headlines Did fraudulent sign-ins make the 'millionaire's tax' look unpopular? We remember gun safety advocate Cheryl Stumbo, and we celebrate NW athletes who won medals at the Olympics. Paige Browning
New play looks at Bruce Lee's formative years in Seattle Bruce Lee's time in Seattle is the subject of a new play at Seattle Children’s Theater called Young Dragon: A Bruce Lee Story, which runs through March 22nd. Hans Anderson
Politics Supporters claim fraudulent sign-ins made Washington's proposed 'millionaire's tax' look unpopular As of Monday afternoon, over 100,000 names appeared signed in as "con" on the House’s website, while less than 10,000 had signed in "pro" or "other." But several unions and pro-tax groups claim many of those names are fraudulent and are asking the state attorney general to investigate. Scott Greenstone
Arts & Life Black History Month: A look back at 2016 in film and TV NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about the film and TV of a decade ago as part of a Black History Month series about the year 2016. Marc Rivers
Animals With horse whinnies, there's more than meets the ear A horse's whinny is an unusually distinctive mix of sounds including both high and low frequencies, a new study in Current Biology shows. Ari Daniel