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Seattle was picked as a setting for ‘Frasier’ somewhat randomly, and next month, a reboot will take Frasier Crane back to Boston. But from 1993 to 2004, the award-winning sitcom helped define Seattle to the nation — even if it got a lot wrong.

KNKX Arts & Culture Reporter Grace Madigan recaps Bumbershoot's successful return and how local arts leaders, many of them newly appointed, are feeling heading into this fall season.

The Seattle police guild argues that Seattle Police Officer Daniel Audere's comments about Jaahnavi Kandula heard on bodycam video were taken out of context.

Modern jazz quartet Vipertime from Leeds, England have released their long-awaited second album Arise.

More than three dozen Pierce County Jail inmates allege long-known plumbing issues are creating unhealthy living conditions and sickening people awaiting trial.

A coalition of community and conservation groups wants to stop a state logging claim near the banks of the Elwha river. They say the so-called “Power Plant” sale would compromise the high-profile effort to restore endangered salmon habitat on the river, just a decade after two dams were removed.

Wildfires in British Columbia and eastern Washington profoundly impacted local communities this summer. They also notably disrupted the regional music events scene, a major boon to local economies.

People around the Salish Sea are seeing weird things in the water: big, exotic fish like Bluefin Tuna on Orcas Island and in Tacoma, six-foot-long Sunfish. These are species that normally live in warmer waters south of here.

Rep. Tarra Simmons is the state's first formerly incarcerated lawmaker, and celebrated with loved ones and supporters after a judge cleared her record at a hearing last week.

A city watchdog agency is investigating after a body-worn camera captured one Seattle Police Department union leader joking with another following the death of a woman who was struck and killed by a police cruiser as she was crossing a street.