You, yes you, can help give flight to a child's heartfelt wish. Thursday, August 5 is the annual Make-A-Wish "Wishes in Flight" effort, which 570 KVI is proud to partner on with KOMO 4 TV, KOMO Newsradio and STAR 101. 5. It's as easy as donating your unused airline miles (and goodness knows after the year we've had - you likely have some stocked up)! (Image: Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington)

Today, Wednesday June 14th 2021, is the last day to submit public comment for or against proposed toll hikes on the New Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the Highway 520 floating bridge and the downtown Seattle tunnel for Highway 99. To share your comments with the WSDOT, click this link and fill out the form.

With restrictions now lifted across Washington, several cities are holding events for the 4th of July. The state is experiencing extremely dry conditions and many cities and counties have local ordinances that prohibit the use of personal fireworks. Before to check your cities' laws before setting off fireworks this weekend. Bellevue 4th of July fireworks. Fireworks will go off at approximately 10:05 p. m. on July 4 from the Downtown area and last for 15-17 minutes.

On Monday morning (June 28th), Sea-Tac Airport was as packed-out busy as it is the day before Thanksgiving: Long delays at TSA checkpoints and a shortage of operating gates, because not enough employees are showing up to work. On my flight to Tucson (I flew to Arizona to escape the Seattle heat), all the passengers were on board and we were ready to go, but the plane remained at the gate.

Catalytic converters are the new hot commodity for Seattle thieves but the latest report involving a catalytic converter theft in Seattle shows how brutal and reckless the city's crime and public safety problems have become. Last Saturday, a suspected catalytic converter thief or thieves allegedly shot at a witness who noticed the crime being committed across the street from his house.

All of Western Washington is facing a potentially historic - and dangerous - heat wave this weekend, with temperatures approaching or reaching triple digits on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The National Weather Service has issued an "excessive heat watch" for Friday afternoon through Monday afternoon, warning of dangerously hot conditions possibly nearing 100 degrees on Saturday and Sunday in most of Western Washington away from the coast and Olympic Mountains.

It's always sad when a good cop dies young. Seattle Police Officer Lexi Harris, still in her 30s, had stopped to help out at an accident scene on I-5 in Seattle just minutes after completing her shift last weekend, when she was hit by another vehicle. She died at the scene. Officer Harris was known throughout the department for bringing the community and fellow cops closer together. Her sudden loss has shocked fellow officers and the many people who dearly cared about her.

Bloodworks NW and blood centers across the U. S. need your help to donate blood since they see blood shortages during the summer months. 570 KVI and our parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group have partnered with the Bloodworks NW for Sinclair Cares: Roll Up Your Sleeves, kicking off on World Blood Donor Day, June 14. If you're healthy and feeling well, please schedule your next blood donation in the days and weeks ahead. This campaign is ongoing through July 23.

On the same day as Washington's first lottery drawing to reward vaccine recipients, Snohomish County public health officials admitted during a video press briefing--including the county's top elected leader, Executive Dave Sommers, pictured below--that financial incentives like lottery prizes and free college tuition are not resulting in more unvaccinated people getting vaccinated. According to KOMO News, the lucrative vaccine incentives announced on June 3rd by Gov.

KVI mid-day host (noon-3p), Lars Larson, interviewed U. S. Rep. Jamie Herrera-Buetler about her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump following the mob attack on the U. S. Capitol on January 6th this year. Click the image above to listen to the full interview as heard on KVI. Herrera-Buetler tells KVI she's still a constitutional conservative but says Trump failed to live up to his duties as Commander in Chief on January 6th.

KVI's morning host, John Carlson, is also a Salvation Army NW board member and this week is the annual Red Kettle fundraiser, conducted digitally due to logisitical reasons in the wake of the pandemic. If you're able to make a donation to Salvation Army NW, please click here. You contribution via this link will help John reach his individual goal for Salvation Army NW. Thank you for your support of the tremendous local help that Salvation Army NW does for vulnerable people around the region.

KVI's John Carlson also serves on the board of the Seattle Police Foundation which is raising money to fund two narcotics sniffing K-9 officers. If you're interested in donating to the K-9 unit effort, click here. Right now, according to Seattle Police Assistant Chief, Deanna Nollette, the department doesn't have any drug sniffing K-9s. The private fundraising would provide for both the training of the dogs and the officers who handle the dogs.

Teachers at a north Seattle school are finally voicing their concerns about an illegal/unsanctioned homeless camp trespassing on school property at Broadview Thomson K-8 in the Bitter Lake neighborhood. Natalee Powell, a second-grade teacher (pictured above) at Broadview Thomson K-8 and the Seattle Education Association's representative for the school issued the letter to the Seattle Public Schools Superintendent, Dr.

As KVI has added new afternoon talk show host, Ari Hoffman, the KVI show producers have been brainstorming new segments and ideas with Ari for his show. In the course of creating some new features for Ari's show, a shared admiration was discovered for the brilliant segment from the KING 5 show "Almost Live" known as "The Lame List". It featured a variety of Seattle rock musicians who, unbeknownst to most of us, were about to be launched into fame on the strength of grunge music in early 1992.

SEATTLE, Wash. -- On Monday, April 26th The Ari Hoffman Show will be officially added to the Talk Radio 570 KVI line-up, from 3 – 6 p. m. weekdays. Ari Hoffman has been filling in for us since long-time host, Kirby Wilbur retired at the end of January. A local businessman and civic activist, Hoffman ran for Seattle City Council in 2020. Now he has a more powerful platform on America’s first conservative talk radio station, 570 KVI.