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  Seattle Schools knew there was methane gas beneath its new high school — but skipped some safety measures

  Before Seattle Public School spent $300 million to rebuild Rainier Beach High School on a peat bog, scientists hired by the district warned that methane in the soil could pose an explosive problem if it were to leak into the school.

  • Ann Dornfeld

• The Humpback comeback: Vancouver's whales come home

  Chris unravels the journey of Humpback whales in the Salish Sea and explores the groundbreaking techniques researchers are using to protect them.

  • Lucy Soucek
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  'Our kids need help.' Washington schools chief calls for tax reforms to fund education

  Washington’s current tax code is unsustainable, hurts public schools and middle-class families, and needs reform. That was state Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal’s top message Thursday during his annual “State of Education” address.

  • Sami West

• How America’s roads alter our ecology, with Ben Goldfarb (reprise)

  A conversation with author Ben Goldfarb on how our roads impact pretty much everything in the natural world.

  • Lucy Soucek

• Japan's bear attacks: we unravel what's going on

  Bear attacks in Japan have been on the rise recently. So why is this happening? And what can be done about it?

  • Lucy Soucek
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  'All the walls are falling.' Shoreline Community College plans layoffs

  Shoreline Community College is planning layoffs as it faces a $4 million three-year budget deficit.

  • Ann Dornfeld
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  Some colleges scrap diversity questions from admissions essays. Will it change how students talk about themselves?

  Starting this year, some colleges have changed or removed essay prompts that referenced diversity from their admissions applications.

  • Freddy Monares/KNKX
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  UW sees fewer students from China, India after federal immigration restrictions

  The University of Washington had a 9% decrease in students from China and India this fall, the home countries for about two-thirds of the university’s 7,900 international students.

  • Ann Dornfeld
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  Sen. Murray defends her shutdown stance amid looming health care cost increases

  Congress is back at work after the longest federal government shutdown ever that was triggered when Senate Democrats refused to approve a spending plan amid a standoff over expiring health care subsidies. Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray talked to KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about what happened and what comes next.

  • Kim Malcolm
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  The story of Whatcom Creek: an explosion, a tragedy, and a rebirth

  The story of the 1999 pipeline explosion in Whatcom Creek, and how a community and a creek began to recover after seemingly irreversible devastation.

  • Lucy Soucek

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