Former KIRO Newsradio Reporter

Nicole Jennings

Nicole Jennings graduated from Western Washington University in 2015 with a BA in history and minors in German and French. Before joining KIRO Newsradio, she worked as a journalist for two years at the Issaquah/Sammamish Reporter and spent eight months teaching English in Salzburg, Austria on a Fulbright fellowship. In her free time, she enjoys reading, traveling, both attending and taking part in theatre, and going on runs around Green Lake.

Q13’s Brandi Kruse: Mental health needs to be the priority

Q13's Brandi Kruse explains why mental health care needs to be addressed by policymakers before homelessness and drug abuse can be fully tackled.
8 years ago

Federal Way now making grocery stores pay for stolen carts

The City of Federal Way has a new idea for cleaning up stolen grocery carts throughout town -- making the grocery stores themselves pay to get the carts back.
8 years ago

Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office makes major drug bust

The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office busted a major drug ring after a two-year-long undercover investigation.
8 years ago

Vermont man builds middle finger statue to get back at small government

A Vermont man found a way to stand up to corruption and political games in a small town government - by putting a giant middle finger statue on his property.
8 years ago

State rep. says Inslee’s budget needs tax rebates, not increases

A state legislator argues that Inslee's budget should include tax rebates and prudent limits on spending, rather than large increases in taxation.
8 years ago

Attorney: Jenny Durkan’s staff uses private Gmail accounts to gauge public image

Attorney Lincoln Beauregard has proof that City of Seattle staff used private Gmail accounts to communicate about the head tax -- and he wants the city to stop lying about it.
8 years ago

Grieving father seeks answers from Marysville School District

On Oct. 1, Marysville-Pilchuck High School student Wesley Goddard took his own life. Friends say that in the days leading to his death, Wesley suffered relentless bullying from players on the school's football team.
8 years ago

Magnolia squatter given slap on the wrist in court

A Magnolia squatter repeatedly terrorized a woman trying to sell her home over the summer. Now he has been sentenced - to 30 hours community service.
8 years ago

Washington environmental expert: Plastic bag ban does more harm than good

An environmental policy expert warns that a plastic bag ban in Washington could actually do more harm than good for the world's bodies of water.
8 years ago

Mom n’ pop shop Sound Sports devastated by burglary

Sound Sports, a family-run business downtown Seattle, is facing $20,000 worth of losses after burglars cut a hole in the wall to gain access the shop early Tuesday morning.
8 years ago

Irreplaceable family quilt stolen from college student’s car in Seattle

A college student asks the community's help in spotting a precious family treasure that was stolen out of his car in the U District -- a quilt that his grandmother made him out of his favorite childhood t-shirts.
8 years ago

‘Santa’ gives bullied boy confidence to pray in public

A local man playing Santa at a military base gave a young boy the courage to pray in front of his friends.
8 years ago

Civil rights attorney: Kirkland incident likely racist, but question is proportionality

Seattle civil rights lawyer Lincoln Beauregard has experienced incidents of racism himself, and has some thoughts for the victim of the Kirkland Menchie's incident.
8 years ago

City isn’t listening, says El Corazon owner on latest homeless attack

The owner of the El Corazon nightclub near the site of last week's homeless baseball bat attack says that the city refuses to take action over a neighborhood that has become filled with homeless campers, drugs, and crime.
8 years ago

Singer attacked by homeless man outside El Corazon left unable to speak

Olympia resident Cherry Cash describes what happened when a homeless man allegedly beat her fiancé nearly to death with a baseball bat outside of El Corazon nightclub in South Lake Union.
8 years ago

Paul Reiser on comedy vs. acting, ‘Mad About You’ reboot

Comedian and actor Paul Reiser talks to Dori about his long career both onstage and on the sitcom set ahead of his performance at Seattle's Moore Theatre.
8 years ago

World War II vet raises 12th Man flag, recalls 50 air missions over Europe

World War II veteran Staff Sgt. Art Unruh, who raised the 12th Man flag at Thursday's Seahawks game, recalls the air battles he fought in over 50 missions.
8 years ago

NRA, Second Amendment Foundation suing WA over I-1639

NRA President and former Fox News host Lt. Col. Oliver North tells KIRO Radio's Dori Monson why the NRA finds I-1639 unconstitutional and just plain confusing.
8 years ago

Local lumber company moving after devastating Queen Anne fire

Dave Gascoigne speaks about the 4-alarm fire that ripped through his family's longtime business, Gascoigne Lumber Company, and was declared an arson by the Seattle Fire Department.
8 years ago

Legislator calls for Sound Transit to reject pay raise for CEO Peter Rogoff

A state legislator wants Sound Transit to reject a contract that would give CEO Peter Rogoff $425,00 in salary and benefits and allow him to remain head of the transit agency for a potential six more years.
8 years ago

Seattle’s Elks Lodge #92 will likely be closed half a year

The director of Elks Lodge #92 in Queen Anne, which burned in a fire this past weekend, says that the lodge's damage is extensive but the Elks' spirit has not been crushed.
8 years ago

Good Samaritan describes holding off alleged killer at Seattle Center

Scott Brown did not expect to use his concealed pistol, but after witnessing the Seattle Center stabbing on Nov. 2, found himself holding back a killer with his gun until police arrived.
8 years ago

The Eagles’ Joe Walsh talks concert for vets, music career, and 25 years of sobriety

Dori chats with Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh about Walsh's upcoming VetsAid concert in support of veterans at the Tacoma Dome, as well as about Walsh's musical career and recovery from addiction.
8 years ago

‘Progressive Liberal’ wrestler wants more discourse, less disagreement

Wrestler Daniel Richards, who is known as the "Progressive Liberal," talks about competing in red states and his hopes for political unity in the United States.
8 years ago