Between daily news and special features, KNKX News covers a lot of ground in a year. Here are some of the newsroom's favorite stories they shared with you in 2023.

Edna Parker wore a pink floral dress, a tiara and a gold sparkly sash that read Birthday Girl for the celebration.

KNKX's The Walk Home podcast received a national Edward R. Murrow Award and will begin adding new episodes as it follows the trial of the three officers involved with the death of Manny Ellis in police custody.

An Oregon union says the victims of one of the state's deadliest highway crashes were farmworkers traveling in a van at an hour when agricultural laborers typically commute home after toiling in the harvest. The driver of the semitruck that struck the van was arrested Friday on suspicion of manslaughter, DUI and other charges.

Officials say a dozen people and a dog were evacuated from an observatory near Mount St. Helens by helicopter after a landslide blocked a nearby highway. On Monday, state transportation officials said that drivers should plan for an extended closure.

KNKX and its reporting team are recognized for their newscasts, reporting, and The Walk Home podcast by the regional Edward R. Murrow Awards and the Livingston Awards.

Despite a stream of headlines last year about unionization drives throughout the nation, the share of American workers in unions fell to its lowest level on record. What's going on?

After more than two decades, KNKX is moving out of its longtime Seattle studios named for the nearby intersection of 4th Ave and Vine St. As the station prepares its new home near Pike Place Market, staff celebrated the final Belltown broadcasts, sifted through archives and reminisced about the day the station was saved.

Three people were shot minutes apart in Yakima, Wash., at a Circle K gas station. The suspect then borrowed a phone from a bystander, who later reported hearing him confess to the killings.

Jack Smith, an Associated Press photographer who captured unforgettable shots of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, the Exxon-Valdez oil spill and the Olympics during his 35-year career with the news organization, has died. He was 80.