Every day, KNKX brings you news from Seattle, Tacoma and across the Pacific Northwest region. As another year of reporting and storytelling wraps up, we asked the KNKX News team to share an important, overlooked, fun, special or memorable story that they brought to our airwaves and online.
The audio, interviews and visuals they captured come together to connect you with others across the region: a grieving community, an inspired opera creator, a photographer on a mission, local tribes reviving traditions, and young adults concerned about cost of living. Some of these stories, you won’t find anywhere else.
Here are the stories that stood out:
Kirsten Kendrick, Morning Edition host
“The sudden death this summer of popular Tacoma News Tribune columnist Matt Driscoll hit a lot of people hard – the newsmakers he covered, the readers he served and his fellow journalists. We all felt a huge hole when he passed…