TGIF from the KU.AW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Here are today's

top stories. It's Friday, April 5th. Police in Seattle will get raises this year, some of them

big raises, but police reformists notice something's missing from their new union contract. It lacks some of the city's own goals around accountability. The contract between the city and union was first reported by the news website Publicola. Amy Radle has more.

Members of the Seattle Police Officers Guild have been working without a contract since 2020, and the department has suffered an acute staffing shortage. If ratified by union members, this tentative agreement would grant officers a retroactive 23% raise. It includes some provisions that accountability advocates have been pressing for.

It strengthens the police chief's ability to discipline officers, and it adds more civilian investigators of police misconduct, but it denies subpoena power to those investigators.

That may be of concern to the federal judge overseeing the city's consent decree.

Still, passage of the contract

by the Seattle City Council seems assured since a majority of council members sit on the

negotiating committee. Amy Radle, KUOW News.

A Biggs killer whale calf is still stuck in a lagoon off of Vancouver Island. It is a sad story that conservationists and the public have been watching play out.

It swam into the lagoon with its mother two weeks ago, but the mother got stuck on a sandbar and died.

Gary Sutton is a researcher with the group Bay Cetology.

He says they know a lot about the mother named

T109A3. I know we call her by a letter and a number. It doesn't sound too personal, but we know

this way, like I mentioned very well. We know we're as a daughter and as a sister and as an aunt and

of course as a mother as well. So it was pretty heartbreaking to see her in that situation.

But Sutton says they're holding out hope the two-and-a-half-year-old will reunite with its pod.

Canadian fisheries officials and tribal leaders say they could decide within a week how to make the rescue.

One option is to use a sling to hoist the calf onto a truck if the calf doesn't swim out on its own.

Excavation work and repairs are getting underway on Mercer Island on the water pipe that forced residents of 20

homes to evacuate. They got the all clear last night to return home, but the work is far from over.

Utility crews have been able to isolate the leaking section of pipe. That leak was making

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