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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
'Depressed, stressed, and under the weather.' Washington families take refuge at emergency flood shelters

Hundreds of families across Washington state have had to leave their homes because of catastrophic river flooding. Many have found a warm place to sleep at emergency, congregate shelters.
- Casey Martin
Seattle's new $297-million high school was built on a peat bog. Then the foundation started settling

Months before the long-awaited, brand new Rainier Beach High School opened to students last April, engineers on the $297-million project reported problems with the building’s foundation to the city, records show.
- Ann Dornfeld
Native children in WA are disproportionately taken from their families. Advocates are working to change that

Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be taken from their parents and placed in foster care than any other kids. That rate has remained stubbornly high, despite policy efforts to keep more families together.
- Eilís O'Neill
Seattle's Roosevelt High School sanctioned for illicit recruiting of football players

District staff, coaches, and students at Seattle’s Roosevelt High School face wide-ranging sanctions after the state’s school athletics regulatory body found that the football program illicitly recruited students.
- Ann Dornfeld
Family of Garfield High student fatally shot on campus sues Seattle Public Schools

The family of a 17-year-old Garfield High School student shot and killed at lunchtime last year is suing Seattle Public Schools, alleging negligence.
- Ann Dornfeld
Seattle's e-scooters are hot. Helmets are not. The brain injuries can be 'profound'

Seattle’s popular ride-share electric scooters are sending tens of thousands of people zipping across town — and some to Harborview with serious injuries. Last year, the city’s trauma hospital saw 163 serious injuries from e-scooters or e-bikes, many of them head injuries.
- Ann Dornfeld
From blubber to bone: How a whale decomposes on land

The story of the Lobby Whale at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
- Teo Popescu
Washington lawmakers consider bill to prevent abuse in youth sports

A bill before Washington state lawmakers aims to prevent abuse in youth sports by making coaches mandatory reporters of abuse and requiring them to receive annual training on the law.
- Ann Dornfeld
Whistle blown: Fraud allegations over elite basketball program at Seattle public school with $22,000 tuition
- Ann Dornfeld

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