She may be less popular than telemarketers: When someone tests positive for an STD, King County Public Health will call any past or current partners that may have been exposed.
The Seattle Animal Shelter says people aren't as keen on adopting black cats and dogs and they don't get as many clicks on the website. They are trying to educate the public to put their superstitions aside and choose a pet based on personality rather than color.
A response to my story on PICC in Kent, the infant care center that helps newborns get through drug withdrawals, that explains why doctors recommend pregnant women stay on methadone and sometimes prescription medications.
SDOT has recently designated Westlake Park and the Pike St Hill Climb as food truck locations to try and bring in positive activity to areas that experience illegal activity.
Looking for some sweet Halloween treats to hand out to your trick-or-treaters? Chef Tom Douglas recommends going to Whole Foods and getting some unconventional treats.
The UW boasts about 800 on-campus clubs and groups, and many of them span into the "special interest" category. Here Rachel checks out two of the quirkier clubs: The Joss Whedon Club and Friendship is Magic at UW, a group of students who love My Little Pony.
Rachel goes chanterelle and hedgehog mushroom hunting with a professional wild mushroom forager, with 30 years experience under his belt, and Langdon Cook, Seattle forager and author of the new book, "The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America."
A year and a half ago a Redmond lawyer had an epiphany: kids shouldn't have to be in limbo just because their foster parents don't have the cash to pay the lawyer's adoption fees. So he created a non-profit that reduces legal fees for a family trying to adopt a child.
Seattle's Michael Hebb has created a platform called Let's Have Dinner and Talk About Death to encourage friends, families and community members to get together and talk about all aspects of death: getting a living will, fears about dying, last wishes. He thinks it's the most important conversation that America isn't having.
An entertainment art I thought was dead, is alive and well in Seattle. A local musician and comedian named Leeni is just one of the entertainers Live Wire sends out to impersonate celebrities, and surprise people, via singing telegram.
How To Save A Newborn Drug Addict
Kent's Pediatric Interim Care Center is the only facility in the country that specifically cares for newborn babies addicted to drugs. They spend weeks to months helping them withdraw from drugs in the most comfortable setting possible. Many of the babies were born to upper middle class women who were taking prescription drugs.
A Seattle man, who has been homeless for nearly three months, is offering the public a three day, two night, homeless experience for $2,000. I met up with him near Pike Place Market to talk about Sub Urban Experience.
The latest salmon of the season, Keta salmon, is now available. Although chef Tom Douglas thinks it sometimes gets a "bad rep" because it's not as red as the other salmon, "it's certainly delicious, especially when it's caught in very cold water and when it's caught at sea."
An Olympia woman has stopped plucking her eyebrows for the month of October and wants you to do the same. All the money raised by these bushy browed people will go to Safe Place in Olympia, a non-profit that serves victims of domestic and sexual violence. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Tourists, locals and seagulls have been flocking to Ivar's locations around the greater Seattle area for generations, but for the first time, they'll be able to make some of their favorite dishes at home. Ivar's is releasing its first cookbooks, and even some of Seattle's most notable chefs can't wait to get their hands on Ivar's secrets.
"To me, people just love butternut squash," Chef Tom Douglas says, "and it just says fall." Celebrate the changing of the season with butternut squash. Tom recommends cooking it with tons of herbs, and "you don't need to put any carmelization on it. It's just a fun fall kind of thing."
Part of this story explores where exactly a UW sweatshirt comes from. We learn that a $75 sweatshirt is made by an Indonesian woman who only makes $190 a month. The other side of the story is about how American garment factories have a hard time finding skilled workers since all those jobs have been moved abroad.
When a Seattle guitarist had some expensive equipment stolen from his home, he went on www.darelicious.com to try and get some donations to help pay for the replacements. Basically, you dare yourself to do something you're afraid of, and when you get all the donations you asked for you must perform the dare and post it online.
A Seattle author and former Microsoft workerspent 18 months working at Wordpress, and then wrote a book called "The Year Without Pants," detailing his experience. At Wordpress, the 8th most popular website in the US, everyone works remotely, workers barely use email, there aren't many bosses and there's unlimited vacation. Scott Berkun explains how this dreamy sounding work environment was made into a reality.
When 19 year old Inocente was 15, she was approached by filmmakers who wanted to tell her story. Inocente was homeless for nine years, after her father was deported for domestic violence. She is an amazing artist who now makes her living painting. The documentary, "Inocente," won an Academy Award this year.
90 year old Gladys Salley and 93 year old Andy Nilles married at the Cock-A-Doodle Doughnut shop in Port Angeles this morning, after about a year of dating. The couple met in their senior apartment complex, started having breakfast dates at McDonald's and have been holding hands ever since.
A woman and her two sons moved into a Federal Way apartment complex, and that very day her neighbor told her the previous tenants did meth in the unit. Two tests revealed that the unit is contaminated with meth, so badly that it needs to be gutted to the studs. But the apartment management denies the meth activity and says their test came up negative. Now the woman is fighting to get her money back and get the management to keep tenants out of the contaminated unit.
Tacoma's Franciscan Health System may be the first in the country to do Virtual Urgent Care. You can call in and use a web cam to see a doctor 24/7, for a flat fee of $35. The goal is to help people with mild afflictions who don't actually need to come into a doctor's office.
