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Seattle's Cafe Racer, where four people were shot and killed in 2012, is being sold. The cafe, bar and restaurant has been a fixture of the University District for years. Lime green on the outside with velvet paintings hanging by the bar, it’s known as a popular meeting spot for local musicians and artists.

Last fall the National Endowment for the Arts awarded almost a million dollars in grants to 34 arts groups across the state, large and small. That money funded everything from King County’s Creative Justice Program, an alternative to youth incarceration, to a project that brings professional theater artists to rural Davenport, near the Colville reservation in eastern Washington. A significant portion of the NEA awards went to projects targetted at youth, community outreach, or rural touring

Our region was built with immigrant labor. It’s part of the story of growth and development here. There are many ways to tell that history. How we tell it signals who belongs, and who is a foreigner.

King County officials are preparing to spend millions of dollars to find out what caused a recent wastewater disaster in Puget Sound.

A federal judge in Hawaii stopped President Trump’s newest executive order on Wednesday afternoon, just hours before it was supposed to take effect. The order would have temporarily halted the refugee program and frozen the visas to nationals from six Muslim majority countries. The judge, Derrick K. Watson, halted the order nationwide. Meantime, a federal hearing in Seattle on Wednesday could also potentially block President Trump’s revised travel ban from taking effect this week. A federal

Two Seattle police officers who shot and killed a 47-year-old African-American man last year will not face criminal charges. Che Taylor's family called the decision disappointing. King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said Tuesday that the officers acted within the scope of the law.

At any given time about 50 young people are booked into the juvenile detention facility on East Alder Street in Seattle. Some are awaiting trial, others are booked because there’s no adult to release them to. More than half are kids of color.

On election night in Seattle, James and Felice decided to get married. Not because she was pregnant, Felice teased. They were in love — and Felice's legal status in the U.S. was tenuous. Listen to their story:

Kim Malcolm talks with Kaiser Health News reporter Julie Rovner about how immigrants and refugees may be affected by the American Health Care Act, the House Republicans' replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act. Kaiser Health News is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Seattle sees itself as a progressive city. Then there are those taxes ... A nationwide study of 51 cities says Seattle is the fourth worst for taxes if you’re poor. But if you’re rich, it’s the fourth best. Gene Balk, the data-reporting FYI Guy of the Seattle Times, wrote about the study and told KUOW's Kim Malcolm about the disparity for the poor (defined as a family of three earning $25,000).