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The effort for a $15 an hour minimum wage for fast food workers intensifies Thursday when they will...

Striking fast food workers’ mindset is formula for bondage

The effort for a $15 an hour minimum wage for fast food workers intensifies Thursday when they will go on strike in 100 cities across the country including several here in the Puget Sound area.
13 years ago
Tim Haeck

Be patient with health care reform, urges Mike Kreidler

Washington's insurance commissioner is urging patience, during an appearance on Capitol Hill, as the nation adopts health care reform.
13 years ago
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was the one who ended up looking saintly after defeating New Or...
Jamie Skorheim

Seahawks’ Russell Wilson ends up looking most saintly after New Orleans game

Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was up to even more good deeds after defeating New Orleans Monday night.
13 years ago
A smart bra, or at the very least, a sensor that goes in a woman’s bra was tested and aimed t...
Alyssa Kleven

Microsoft bra might help battle stress, emotional overeating

It's certainly no Xbox One, but a product prototype under development by Microsoft could help battle emotional overeating.
13 years ago
The machinists say they’re interested in renegotiating a contract, but Boeing has said it wil...
Chris Sullivan

Officials in Washington trying to lure Boeing, machinists back to the table

Washington lost its chance to guarantee that Boeing's 777X would be built in this state when union machinists refused to accept a new eight year contract. But with Boeing now taking other bids for the plane, there are behind-the-scenes efforts to get the company and the machinists back together.
13 years ago
Josh Kerns

Deputy shot, gunman dies in Spanaway shootout

A Pierce County sheriff's deputy was shot in the arm after exchanging gunfire with a man at a Spanaway storage unit Tuesday afternoon.
13 years ago
Mikey Hall and his husband, Eli, show reporters a couple of their marriage certificate during a new...
Tim Haeck

Same-sex couples sue railroad over denial of health care benefits

Two railroad workers are going to federal court in Seattle to force their employer to provide health care benefits to their same-sex spouses.
13 years ago
Die hard Seahawks fan Cedric Morris is behind an effort to fly a 12th Man banner Sunday above San F...
Josh Kerns

12th Man flag to fly high above San Francisco Sunday

The 12th Man will be well represented high above San Francisco Sunday when the Seahawks take on the 49ers at Candlestick Park, thanks to some industrious fans who've raised enough money to fly a banner from a plane before the game.
13 years ago
Dori Monson thinks if King County Metro needs more money, King County riders should pay more. (AP P...

Are you ready for a big, big sales tax hike in King County?

King County officials say that they want to send a sales tax increase to the voters or else they're going to have to cut Metro transit bus routes.
13 years ago
Dori Monson came real close to a billion dollar idea once when he owned a bookstore. (Image KIRO/AP...
Jamie Skorheim

How Dori Monson just missed being billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

After hearing word of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' drone delivery method in development, KIRO Radio's Dori Monson said it would definitely up his Amazon purchases. He also shared a story of how he just missed beating Amazon to the punch.
13 years ago
Residents of a Redmond neighborhood are trying to stop King County from allowing an indoor marijuan...
Josh Kerns

Redmond residents say ‘not in our backyard’ to proposed pot growers

Now that Washington state is set to approve licenses for legal marijuana growers and sellers, some residents of King County's Redmond Ridge neighborhood are saying "not in our backyard."
13 years ago
Inquest prison death...
MyNorthwest.com

King County Council limits federal immigration holds

If the King County Council gets its way, the jail won't concede to the federal government over detaining immigrants for misdemeanors.
13 years ago
A worker looks at a partially collapsed grain silo where a man is believed to be buried. (Brandi Kr...
Josh Kerns

Crews still trying to recover body in Pierce County grain silo collapse

Machinery is in place and rescue crews are trying to stabilize a collapsed grain silo at a Pierce County feed mill where a worker is believed buried under corn.
13 years ago
A rain gauge is a great gift idea this holiday season and is sure to get plenty of use in the North...
Ted Buehner, NWS Meteorologist

Holiday weather gift ideas

Do you have someone special who has an interest in weather? Here are some weather gift ideas.
13 years ago
To make room for this protected bike lane, one of those major commuter streets in and out of the ci...
Chris Sullivan

Protecting bikes in downtown Seattle means losing lanes or parking

Seattle drivers could be losing a traffic lane or street parking on 2nd or 4th Avenues downtown as the city looks to expand the bike lanes there by creating dedicated and protected bike lanes known as "cycle tracks."
13 years ago
Sources say former NHL player Jeremy Roenick was in Seattle Monday with an investment group to disc...
KIRO Radio Staff

NHL hopes still alive for Seattle

Sources report there was a meeting of NHL minds in Seattle on Monday.
13 years ago
New Orleans Saints’ Ben Grubbs sits on the sideline late in the second half of an NFL footbal...
Jamie Skorheim

Saints’ Monday night gets even worse after Seahawks win

Monday night was a rough one for the New Orleans Saints as they lost to the Seattle Seahawks 34-7, and the big loss wasn't the end of it. Following the game, the Saints were forced to spend the night in Seattle due to a problem with their plane, ESPN reports.
13 years ago
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Golden Tate, right, leaps into the arms of fans after the Seahawks b...
MyNorthwest.com

Seahawks fans break noise record again; set off seismometer with quake-like shakes

The 12th Man set a new noise record for loudest outdoor sports stadium, taking back a mark they achieved earlier this season.
13 years ago
Wearing a Saints sweatshirt and a Louisiana State University baseball cap, Assistant Police Chief P...
Brandi Kruse

Who Dat? Assistant police chief goes undercover as Saints fan

Assistant Police Chief Paul McDonagh might be a Seahawks fan, but he was dressed in Saints gear Monday night to help catch unruly fans.
13 years ago
A convicted sex offender accused of trying to steal a Victoria Clipper is now held on $200,000 bail...
Josh Kerns

Alleged Victoria Clipper thief held on $200,000 bail

Bail has been set at $200,000 for the convicted sex offender accused of stealing the Victoria Clipper from the Seattle waterfront on Sunday.
13 years ago
Traffic is backed up on I-5 Monday afternoon after the closure of the West Seattle Bridge. (WSDOT i...
Josh Kerns

De-icer causes multiple collisions, West Seattle Bridge closure

Road de-icer is being blamed for a series of crashes that caused the closure of the West Seattle Bridge Monday.
13 years ago
Ray Dalton’s latest achievement was getting the call to sing the national anthem at CenturyLi...
Jamie Skorheim

From Macklemore to Monday Night Football: Ray Dalton still in awe

The 22-year-old singing the national anthem as the Seahawks take on the Saints in Monday Night Football still can't believe where his life has taken him in the last year.
13 years ago
Josh Kerns

One of ‘Tuba Man’ killers arrested again in Seattle drug bust

One of three young men convicted in the 2008 beating death of Ed "Tuba Man" McMichael has been arrested again, this time on drug charges.
13 years ago
Josh Kerns

Seattle woman gets stolen bike back after spotting it on front of Metro bus

A Seattle woman has gotten her stolen bike back back after spotting it on the front of a Metro bus.
13 years ago