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Washington state will ban flavored e-cigarettes
After a statewide outbreak of vaping related lung disease, Washington state will ban flavored vapor products by mid October.
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Not driving a bus? Then stay out of these lanes
Frustrated volunteers took to a busy downtown intersection during Thursday's afternoon rush hour to remind car drivers to stay out of the bus lanes.
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Fall art season is in full swing: Marcie Sillman's weekend culture picks September 27-29
The last weekend of September is actually the first weekend of the 2019-2020 arts season for many of the region’s cultural organizations. KUOW’s Arts and Culture reporter Marcie Sillman has these picks for your weekend entertainment.
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Boos and hisses at the Sawant-Orion debate at Seattle's Town Hall
Organizers urged the crowd to be quiet at last night’s District 3 debate between Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and challenger Egan Orion. But the crowd wasn’t having it.
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HIV is well treated in King County but more could be done, report says
King County is a leader in addressing HIV, but a new national report points out where the county can do better.
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Feverish or sneezy? Step right into this Seattle flu kiosk
Health officials want to map out where the flu bug hits Seattle this season, and they're asking people with fever and sneezing to help out.
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'Shoddy example.' How to count the Native women who have gone missing?
It’s been more than 30 years since Daisy Mae Heath went missing. To this day, her family doesn’t know what happened to her. She is one of an unknown number of missing and murdered indigenous women across Washington state and around the country.
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'Don't sink don't sink don't sink.' Boeing didn't fully test how pilots would respond to warning system
The National Transportation safety Board is criticizing Boeing for failing to fully test the MCAS flight control system believed responsible for two fatal crashes. The agency says one thing that Boeing failed to examine was the effect on pilots of the warning alerts that MCAS would trigger.
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Feds push for dirtier waters. Tribes say that threatens their health
Washington tribes say the Trump administration is violating their treaty rights and endangering their health. Those were some of the complaints at a hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to allow more pollution in Washington waters — and Washington fish.
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Coalition calls on Seattle's elected to do more to fight anti-Semitism
Dozens of local Jewish organizations have joined an effort to identify and stop anti-Semitism.
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13,000+ Washingtonians qualify for developmental disabilities services, but don't get them
Three years ago, Lindsey Topping-Schuetz became a first-time mother when her son Owen was born. He was six weeks early and went immediately to the neonatal intensive care unit, where he spent the next 103 days.
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Food is still short in Seattle lunchrooms, three weeks after start of school
The food is bad and there's not enough of it, lunchroom managers say