KIRO Newsradio traffic reporter

Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan is a traffic reporter for KIRO Newsradio 97.3 FM. He cares deeply about the amount of time you spend sitting in Seattle traffic. Email Chris at csullivan@kiroradio.com

Air India engineer taking blame for 787 issue

It looks like Boeing isn't to blame for a large panel falling off an Air India 787 this week.
13 years ago

Picket signs at the ready for potential grocery workers strike

Thousands of picket signs are piled-up and ready to go, but negotiations are still underway to prevent a grocery workers strike.
13 years ago

Youth football league’s dreams gambled away

Granite Falls Youth Football will host its final games of the season this weekend. A month ago, the season was nearly scrapped after the director allegedly gambled away all the fees the parents and sponsors paid.
13 years ago

Firing up the Boeing 757 conversation

Boeing hasn't made a 757 in nearly a decade, but there's a growing conversation about whether the company should restart the line.
13 years ago

Grocery workers’ union making last effort to resolve contract negotiations before strike

It sounds like this is the final day to avoid a grocery workers strike. The unions are talking like they will walk-off the job if they don't see a better deal today.
13 years ago

Grocery contract negotiations hit pivotal stage

Whatever happens in the grocery workers' contract talks, be it a strike or a settlement, Wednesday could be the day that determines which path is taken.
13 years ago

‘Iron Man’ super suit under development by US Army

Less science fiction and more science fact. The Army works on perfecting a super suit for soldiers.
13 years ago

WWU student body president: Riot was a bunch of young, ignorant people with alcohol

What a weekend in Bellingham. Police needed pepper spray and a huge show of force to break-up a riot near the Western Washington University campus Saturday night.
13 years ago

Movement in grocery talks, but may not be enough to prevent strike

The biggest contract issue on the table in the grocery workers talks appears to be gone, but the unions said it might not be enough to prevent a possible strike.
13 years ago

How UW can protect their GameDay turf from the Oregon faithful

For the first time ever, ESPN College Football GameDay is set up on the University of Washington campus to capture the purple and gold fever as the Huskies and Ducks go head to head on Saturday.
13 years ago

Herbstreit: Pac-12 is worst conference when it comes to officiating

ESPN's football road show, College Gameday is coming to Seattle this Saturday to be part of the Huskies game against the Oregon Ducks, and one ESPN college football analyst said he's not worried about our notoriously awful weather, nor a Ducks blow out. He's worried about the Pac-12 officials.
13 years ago

Grocery strike looms as negotiations resume

You might find picket signs outside your favorite grocery store soon if negotiations over a new contract don't go well. Those talks resume Thursday.
13 years ago

Where WA health departments are targeting the uninsured for Obamacare

Health departments across the state aren't waiting for people to sign-up for the new insurance exchanges. They are actively targeting the uninsured to get them signed up and even targeting specific cities.
13 years ago

Seattle City Council approves pot zones, size of marijuana farms

Seattle will allow pot farms of up to 20,000 square feet under new rules adopted by the city council on Monday.
13 years ago

Puyallup pumpkin pumps up state record by 300 pounds

Washington has a new record-setting pumpkin, tipping the scales at 1,791 pounds.
13 years ago

‘Embarrassing, frankly’: Boeing loses major Japanese customer

Airbus has been banging on the door in the Japanese market for decades, and this morning Japan Airlines has opened it to the Boeing's European rival in a big way.
13 years ago

Seattle’s University Prep sued over bullying

Seattle's University Prep has been sued by a former student who claims the administration did nothing to prevent his bullying, and when he complained the school kicked him out.
13 years ago

Know before you go: Good timing for closures on SR 99, Montlake Bridge

Drivers need to be prepared for extra congestion on I-5 this weekend. There are major road closures, but fortunately no sporting events will add to the trouble.
13 years ago

Everett 8th graders have to make government shutdown lemonade

Imaging planning and saving-up for a dream trip across the country, only to find out the activities you had planned were canceled when you got there. Three dozen Everett 8th graders are learning a very important civics lesson this week as their trip to Washington D.C. is being messed up by the government shutdown.
13 years ago

Hundreds of jobs heading to Everett

The demolition isn't yet complete on the old Kimberly-Clark paper mill in Everett, but the site already has a new owner and hundreds of jobs to add to the local economy.
13 years ago

Game on: Washington must fight to keep aerospace

Whether Washington wants to accept it or not, this state is in a major competition from the rest of the nation to keep aerospace companies like Boeing. States, especially in the southeast, are throwing big money, tax breaks and incentives at Washington companies to entice them to leave.
13 years ago

Seattle Police, fire crews investigate deadly University District fire

A bizarre investigation in Seattle's University District this morning. A police disturbance. A possible arson and a man either jumping or falling to his death in a high-rise apartment.
13 years ago

Local GOP chair says ‘don’t blame us’ for shutdown

Most polls say the American public blames this partial government shutdown on the Republican Party. Susan Hutchinson is the Republican Party Chair in Washington State. She said that blame is misplaced.
13 years ago

States make their play to poach Boeing from Washington

Washington is known as one of the world's aerospace hubs, and other states are looking to poach some of our best and brightest employees and companies so they can get into the game.
13 years ago