Seattle Now

There are orcas in every ocean in the world, but the southern resident killer whales who swim in our backyard are the only population of urban orcas.

It's all sun and fun in Seattle now, but look across the state and there are warning signs heading into summer. We just had our driest March and April in almost 100 years, Denver had more rain than we did last month and fire season is not far off.

Guest: Anna King, Richland-based reporter for the Northwest News Network

We’ve been talking a lot about how adults have managed over the past year. Today, we’re hearing what kids are hoping to do now that a slightly less pandemic-y summer is around the corner.

A story from our friends at KUOW's The Wild podcast, about how the 2001 Nisqually quake gave salmon some better real estate along the city's waterfront.

Hear more from The Wild: https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/thewild

Seattle was the fastest growing city in the country last year — but who's moving here? Maybe they're new hires at Amazon, which announced this week it's buying a Hollywood film studio. Plus, we reflect on a year since the murder of George Floyd began a reckoning with systematic racism on the streets of Seattle.

A year before George Floyd was murdered, an Auburn man named Jesse Sarey was killed when a public disturbance call escalated into a fatal police shooting. This fall, the officer who fired the shots will face trial. Seattle Times reporter Sara Jean Green explains the case.

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Half of all American adults are now fully vaccinated, and people are itching to travel just in time for Seattle's busy tourist season. We take a field trip to Pike Place Market to see how one of the city's most popular attractions is holding up.

Dogs became everybody's new best friend during the pandemic, and adoptions soared. But now that we're starting to go out again, some new dog parents are realizing their pup needs help adjusting to the new normal. We turn to Seattle-based dog trainer Joey Iversen for some help.

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While we’re all hoping covid disappears for good, some of the changes we’ve made during the pandemic might stick around. One of them: outdoor patios at your favorite restaurants. We head to Ballard's El Moose to talk dining al fresco with Seattle Times food and drink writer Tan Vinh.

We have more license to walk around without a mask on. At least, those of us who are vaccinated do. But can we trust that folks who are maskless have gotten the jab? Plus, reentry is sending our pandemic cosmetic routines into a tailspin.