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Meet the CARE Team, Seattle’s new mental health crisis responders
As part of a pilot program that avoids using force, the group is dispatched alongside police officers on 911 calls that might involve emotional distress.
Nimra Ahmad
Nimra Ahmad is an on-call engagement producer and former emerging journalist fellow for arts and culture at Cascade PBS. A native of Atlanta, she has bylines in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The O
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4 unconventional Pacific Northwest-inspired Thanksgiving recipes
Alongside the turkey and mashed potatoes, make some room on your plate for foods that are indigenous to the region.
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Native youth theater finds home at Seattle’s King Street Station
For the first time in its 32 years, Red Eagle Soaring has its own performance space in a new arts hub at the historic train station.
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All-ages music venue to open at the Angle Lake light-rail station
Inspired by local dance-hall history, The Roadhouse is part of Sound Transit’s public-art initiative.
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WA authors are teaching AI how to write — without their consent
Companies like Meta and Bloomberg draw upon a database of 191,000 books to train the tools. Local writers aren’t happy, and lawsuits are in the works.