The Seattle-area saw several protests this weekend, a new legislative session brings several new bills, and avalanches are making ski season dangerous.

It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.

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The Asian market Uwajimaya is having a long overdue homecoming, sort of.

Plans are in motion to open a new store in Tacoma next year.

That's actually where the family-owned business first opened nearly 100 years ago.

We’ll talk to Uwajimaya’s CEO, and the Puget Sound Business Journal reporter who broke the news.

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Today, we’re bringing you the best from the KUOW Newsroom…

We’ll start with a story about a local family who self-deported to Guatemala earlier this week.

The family of 3 and their cat left on Wednesday after losing their asylum case.

Casey Martin has the story.

Our other story comes from Bellingham.

The city of Bellingham is conducting an internal investigation after evidence was uncovered that a staffer may have rigged a bidding process for a city contract to favor one vendor over another.

What is new, though, is that the city employee allegedly used ChatGPT to skew the outcome.

At least one expert says it may be the first time AI has been at the center of this kind of scandal.

KNKX reporter Nate Sanford talked about it with KUOW’s Kim Malcolm in a recent interview.

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