Following similar efforts at newsrooms across the country, employees at Crosscut/KCTS 9 move for representation with the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild.
Washington's House Democrats will be picking a new leader for the first time in 20 years. Whoever is chosen will take over from former Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle.
In a sign of what may be coming to other King County cities, the Seattle suburb is introducing programs that take a different approach to difficult problems.