This Week We're Hiking Past The Ads To Get To The News Advertising is coming to an outdoors near you, can commercialism save our state parks? Also, should Seattle give heroin users a safe place to inject?... Bill Radke
Washington's New Vision Screening Requirements Could Be Tricky School kids in Washington state are tested for distance vision, to make sure they can see the chalk board at 20 feet. Now a new law requires students to... Ruby de Luna
Seattle Council Asks Pharmacies To Collect Unused Drugs Seattle leaders want the city to have more disposal sites for drugs like OxyContin and Vicodin. The City Council passed a resolution Monday that asks... Paige Browning
The 'Promotora Effect': Getting Latinas To Mammograms We all know that cancer screenings are important, but it doesn’t mean they always get done. For some Latina women, a conversation with a peer can nudge... Ruby de Luna
Biden Visits Seattle To Move Cancer Research Forward Vice President Joe Biden urged scientists to collaborate to help speed up the process to cure cancer. Biden was in Seattle Monday. He toured a lab at... Ruby de Luna
Why These Seattle Writers Launched #ShoutYourAbortion Seattleite Amelia Bonow is not the type to whisper about anything. But her abortion was something she kept to herself – until a few days ago. Allie Ferguson
Seattle Is Taking Notes From Vancouver's Legal Injection Site The rise in heroin use in Washington has pushed a new idea to the forefront: legal injection sites for drug users. Monday, a City Council committee will... Paige Browning
Lead Found In 34 Washington Drinking Water Systems Flint, Michigan, isn't the only place with lead in its drinking water: 34 water systems in Washington state have tested above acceptable levels of the... John Ryan
Soldiers Still Love Their Smokes, To Army’s Dismay Soldiers like their smokes and chew. At Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle, 35 percent of soldiers use tobacco, just slightly higher the average for... Patricia Murphy
Seattle Surgery Patients Warned Of Possible Exposure To Hepatitis, HIV Washington health officials are investigating a man charged with swapping syringes in Colorado who used to work in Seattle as a surgery technician. They... Paige Browning
