Seattle Now

As students return to classes and a new light rail station opens, the bustle is coming back to the University District.

If you’ve taken a state ferry lately, there’s a good chance you were waiting a while. Delays and cancellations have frustrated passengers all summer. KUOW’s Noel Gasca tells us what’s been slowing down the boats, and how a new high school is trying to help keep things running.

You’ve seen Ryan Henry Ward’s murals around town: A walrus riding a bike. A sasquatch hugging a salmon. A salmon drinking coffee. There’s lots of whimsy and joy in Henry’s work, and as KUOW’s Anna Boiko-Weyrauch explains, he worked hard to find it.

If nothing else, this pandemic has given us a spotlight on some of society's biggest problems. Today, a conversation about how we can be part of the solution, with South Seattle Emerald publisher Marcus Harrison Green. He writes about the power of turning inward for answers to some of our most complex challenges in his new book, Readying to Rise.

Washington hangs up its hotline for reporting HOV lane cheats. Seattle drivers are honking more. And it's officially fall, so get your daylight while you still can.

Seattle's next mayor will have to decide how and when the city unwinds its pandemic evictions ban, because Mayor Durkan just extended it to January. How does this end? And where is the money that's supposed to be helping people out? Seattle Times real estate reporter Heidi Groover explains.

Stable, permanent housing is at the heart of every long-term solution to the city’s homelessness crisis. KUOW’s Casey Martin tells us how it happened for one Seattleite who’d been homeless for a decade.

The Mariners have 14 games left to play and about a one-percent chance of making the postseason... something they haven’t done since the iPod was invented 20 years ago. We get a pep talk from M’s announcer Rick Rizzs.

It’s spider season here in the Pacific Northwest. Well, actually for just two types of spiders, but these are ones you’re most likely to notice. Burke Museum curator of arachnids Rod Crawford shares what we need to know about the giant house spider and European orb weaver.

After a dusty, dry summer, Seattleites are in for more rain in one weekend than we got in three months. Microsoft learns remote work means longer workdays. And Macklemore moves from the thrift shop to the pro shop.