Seattle renames block to honor D'Vonne Pickett Jr. The city of Seattle Thursday renamed a block on Union Street for community activist and business leader D'Vonne Pickett Jr., who was fatally shot waiting at a bus stop in the Central District last October. Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Mayor pushes for more culturally sensitive response to immigrant deaths An executive order from Seattle’s mayor aims to improve city resources during an unexpected death in immigrant communities. Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Ongoing rise in fentanyl deaths highlights need for treatment alternatives ‘I haven't seen anything like it in my 27 years of working with folks with opioid addiction and people experiencing overdoses.’ -Caleb Banta-Green Kim Malcolm John O'Brien
Getting 'the dead where they need to go': the changing business of death Last month, California legalized a burial practice called human composting. Here in Washington, the practice has been legal since 2019. It’s one of many signs that, for the first time in a long time, the funeral industry is changing. Sarah Leibovitz Mike Davis
New report shows that more people are dying in King County jails King County has seen a spike in jail deaths during the first part of this year. And that’s raising questions about conditions and staffing at the facility. Libby Denkmann
Opinion: Painting the smiles of people we know, love and will never see again NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the work of Chicago-based artist Milton Coronado, who paints murals that memorialize people killed by gun violence. Scott Simon
178 people in Seattle died this year while experiencing homelessness, the most ever On the longest night of the year, volunteers read aloud the names of every person who died in this year without stable housing. Women in Black of WHEEL has been holding this annual vigil for over 20 years - and this year they read more names than ever. Casey Martin
Kat Chow examines the long life of grief in 'Seeing Ghosts' ‘What do we owe in death? What do we owe to our parents?’ Kendra Hanna
‘Weep. Scream. Hate. Disbelieve. Go numb. Breathe.’ Hard-earned lessons about loss and grief ‘A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve began as notes scratched out over many midnights; thoughts formed as I lay sleepless, or in the aftermath of painful dreams.’ John O'Brien
Nearly 800 people believed to have died in Northwest heat wave The heat wave from two weeks ago is now one of the deadliest weather-related events in Washington state history. Kim Malcolm John Ryan Paige Browning
