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Most weekdays you’ll find Victor Loo at his office at Seattle’s Asian Counseling and Referral Services, where he’s the Director of Recovery Services. Loo’s been with the agency for more than a decade, but he has a thriving second career as an internationally-known high fashion model. You’ll find this Singapore-native strutting the runway as Victoria Victor, Seattle’s only genderless Asian model. Here's Victor's story, as told to KUOW's Marcie Sillman.

An American flag for every grave marker in Seattle's Evergreen Washelli Veterans Memorial Cemetery. That was the mission for dozens of volunteers at 7 o'clock Monday morning. Veterans, scouting troops, and family of service members scooped up their flags and started walking the rows, planting one U.S. flag for each white marble gravestone. Over 5000 times, in all.

Two Canadian provinces’ feud over an oil pipeline could boost gasoline prices and oil tanker traffic here in Washington state.

Kim Malcolm talks with King County councilmember Dave Upthegrove about a proposal that would allocate up to $190 million in taxes over two decades for improvement and maintenance at Safeco Field. The money would come from King County's hotel/motel tax.

Mike West likes to watch for someone from out of town to walk by. He leans out of the door of the auto shop he's occupied since 1971. "Hey, you want to see something?" he asks. He's semi-retired now, so he has a lot of time for this kind of thing. Once inside, he shows them his collection of novelty taxidermy. “Yeah, that’s a squirrel with a gun.” “That’s a pickled cobra.” “That’s a walrus penis.”

Gun owners who don’t store their guns securely could face new civil penalties under legislation unveiled Thursday by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. Durkan said the goal is to reduce gun deaths including accidents and suicides.

Half a year after former Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole stepped down, today Mayor Jenny Durkan's 25-person police chief search committee announced three all-male contenders to replace her. Interim Chief Carmen Best, the first black woman to hold the position and one of those vying for the spot, was not included.

Meet Ali Jama. He owns a jewelry store with a clever name: Haveniceday Jewelry. “A simple name that everybody can remember and say it without having any difficulties," he said.

Seattle made some big shifts in its approach to homeless services last year, including signing new contracts that gave the city the ability to ding service providers that don’t get enough people into permanent housing. For the first time in more than a decade, the city competitively bid roughly $34 million in service contracts, which included “pay for performance” measures. Now the city has softened on this policy. Providers who don’t meet the standards in the first quarter of this year will get

If you take legal or illegal drugs, or even flush them down the toilet unused, there's a good chance they'll wind up in Puget Sound. Now, there may be evidence that the opioid crisis reaches underwater, too. Scientists have found traces of oxycodone in shellfish near Bremerton and in Seattle's Elliott Bay.