KUOW Public Radio

07/30/2025

A U.N.-backed food security group says famine is unfolding in Gaza, with thousands of children malnourished and hunger-related deaths rising.

07/30/2025

The 2016 legal battle raised questions about the line between freedom of expression and privacy, and what is actually newsworthy. Questions that needed to be reexamined in light of the invention of the internet, according to law experts.

07/30/2025

It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war.

07/30/2025

A landlord sentenced to decades in prison after he killed a Palestinian American boy and wounded his mother has died.

07/30/2025

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was convicted of witness tampering and bribery in a historic trial that gripped the country and threatened to tarnish the conservative strongman's legacy.

07/30/2025

What should you do if you encounter a cougar on a mountain trail or in your own backyard? The answer might surprise you.

07/30/2025

Japan’s meteorological agency issued a tsunami alert for Japan’s Pacific coast, upgrading an earlier advisory stemming from the powerful, magnitude 8.0 quake that hit on Wednesday morning near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

News & Stories Washington, other Pacific coast states under tsunami watch Associated Press July 29, 2025 / 6:28 pm Pacific Ocean waves roll in to Cape Disappointment State Park on the Washington coast on Sept. 15, 2024. KUOW Photo/John Ryan TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s meteorological agency issued a tsu...

07/30/2025

Immigration officials arrested Rocha in the driveway of his home on July 18. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Rocha had overstayed a tourist visa.

A theater manager at Juanita High School in Kirkland is set to be released on bond from the Northwest ICE Processing Center after nearly two weeks.

07/30/2025

U.N. officials say many people in Gaza are experiencing "famine-like conditions." Health experts who have studied past famines warn that the fallout can reverberate across generations.

07/29/2025

The money is part of multistate settlements with Purdue Pharma, Alvogen, Amneal, Apotex, Hikma, Indivior, Mylan, Sun, and Zydus.

More than 100 local governments in Washington are now eligible to claim their share of $122.2 million in settlements with Purdue Pharma and eight generic opioid manufacturers, the Washington state attorney general’s office said Monday.

07/29/2025

The Trump administration proposes eliminating a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. That would undermine the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants and cars.

07/29/2025

Supporters say the pop-up messages could encourage Minnesotans, especially kids, to think twice about how much time they spend on sites. Social media companies argue that the law is heavy-handed.