Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is presiding over maybe the best year in Seattle sports history.

KUOW politics reporter Scott Greenstone dug into Wilson’s personal relationship with sports – and what it means for AFTER the world cup.

Businesses in Seattle's Chinatown International District say World Cup matches in the city are actually hurting their sales.

KNKX reporter Freddy Monares says one bakery won't open today [Monday] when the U.S. and Belgium play at nearby Lumen Field.

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A bakery owner in Seattle's Chinatown-International District won't open today [Monday] for the U.S.-Belgium World Cup Soccer match at Lumen Field.

Two hundred fifty-two people from 55 different countries became new American citizens in Seattle on Independence Day.

Roughly 60 people held an Independence Day protest outside Eugene’s federal building yesterday [Saturday]. As KLCC’s Brian Bull reports, it was the first large gathering since a contentious fence was taken down days earlier.

A Quaker event was held in Eugene on the 4th of July, at the plaza in front of the federal building. The “Declaration of Resistance” was an hour-long observance to affirm equality and justice, and denounce authoritarianism.

Hundreds of people turned out for the City of Vancouver’s America 250 event this afternoon [[FRIDAY]]. OPB's Erik Neumann reports.

Hundreds of people gathered today/Friday afternoon at Fort Vancouver for an America 250 celebration.

[DO NOT AIR UNTIL JULY 7!] One of the most endangered sea creatures of the Pacific Ocean is getting a leg up in the kelp forests of the San Juan Islands.

It’s a twenty-four-armed sea star called the sunflower star.

Scientists and the Samish [SAM-ish] Indian Nation are working to bring this pizza-sized predator back from the brink of extinction.

KUOW’s John Ryan reports.

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Crater Lake is welcoming back Curt Dimmick as its new superintendent this summer.