Angela King

Feb 10, 2025 | kuow.org | Angela King

I've never felt so nervous while flying back to my hometown in Southern California. I also feel a sense of urgency among other passengers as we come in for a landing at Burbank International Airport. Everyone's peering through what sliver of airplane-window they can find before we touch down. We all look like meerkats. We want to get our first glimpse of the damage left behind by the Palisades and Eaton fires. Seeing it firsthand makes it real, makes it personal, especially for passengers like me.

Sep 6, 2024 | kuow.org | Katie Campbell |Angela King

Pablo, 9, jumps into the waters of Lake Washington in September. KUOW Photo/Juan Pablo Chiquiza Most of Western Washington will be under a heat advisory until 11 p.m. Friday, with higher-than-average temperatures expected and potentially record-breaking highs for the second day in a row. RELATED: Five more Seattle libraries to become extreme-heat refugesOn Thursday, both Seattle and Olympia broke their previous records set in 1973, with highs of 90 and 95 degrees, respectively.

Jul 26, 2024 | kuow.org | Angela King

How does one collect 100,000 albums? If you're Kevin Cole, you spend 50 years in radio, and a lot of your childhood in the local record store. "I'd go to the place called the Wax Museum in Minneapolis," Cole said. "I would take the bus there. It would take 40 minutes. I had this heightened level of anticipation, and if I saw a cover I liked, I bought it."All of Cole’s albums, and the thousands more sitting in storage, have served Cole well as the afternoon drive time DJ for KEXP 90.3 FM.

Jul 26, 2024 | kuow.org | Angela King

Kevin Cole, one of the longest serving DJ's at KEXP, is stepping down from his daily duties as the station's afternoon drive-time host. "I'm in a reflective state as I'm leaving my show full time," Cole said. "I'm a music-lifer. I'll never quit DJing. I can't, but part of the move for me is like, yeah, it's time for someone else." Cole has worked at the Seattle radio station for 25 years.

Jun 14, 2024 | kuow.org | Angela King |Natalie Newcomb

Seattle Fire Captain Gordon Walcott and his daughter Raechel Ehlers. They are the Seattle FIre Department's first father-daughter firefighting duo. Courtesy of the Seattle Fire Department Captain Gordon Wolcott with the Seattle Fire Department knows retirement is around the corner. Before that, he had one job he did not want to miss — pinning a firefighter badge on his daughter, Raechel Ehlers. “It’s still amazing to me, today, every time I go to work,” Wolcott said.