Seattle Now

Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with KUOW's Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong and the Seattle Storm’s Mercedes Russell.

It's official: no Purple Reign on Saturdays at Husky Stadium this fall, no Apple Cup. The pandemic pushed the Pac-12 conference to cancel all college sports until at least next year. Pac-12 Network broadcaster Elise Woodward explains the impact.

Seattle will rethink its relationship with the police without Chief Carmen Best. She's retiring next month. What happens now? We'll talk about it with Omari Salisbury of Converge Media's Morning Update Show.

Seattle public schools stumbled with the shift to online learning when the pandemic shut down in-person learning in the spring. Will they be ready when the bell rings in the fall? KUOW education reporter Ann Dornfeld gives us an update.

Seattle’s renowned all-music public radio station is changing its lineup to bring more voices to its airwaves and become an anti-racist organization. KEXP DJ and associate music director Gabriel Teodros talks about the changes and why it's an important move in this moment.

The dog days of summer are upon us... even though it's a pandemic summer. KUOW's Jeannie Yandel and writer Molly Wizenberg are here to talk back to school, kiddie pool shortages and, most importantly, ice cream.

The pandemic may have done a number on our economy but one area seems to be immune.

Microsoft says it will be done laying out an offer to to acquire the social media platform TikTok in the United States by mid September.

Social distant camping is one of the only summer activities we can do right now. And that means more and more people are heading out into the woods.

The Mariners, Sounders and Storm are all playing again and the Seahawks are getting ready. But playing even a shortened season in a pandemic means keeping players healthy, and that's already a challenge. ESPN’s Mina Kimes explains how it's going so far.