SEATTLE – The Washington State Library and the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library in Seattle are facing layoffs and severe cuts to services after lawmakers declined to include a $6.7 million ...

SEATTLE — Staff at libraries run by the state are encountering what they have feared most: Millions of dollars in federal grants are getting pulled. Visitors and staff at Washington Talking Book and ...

In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, the Seattle City Council approved Mayor Katie Wilson’s proposed library levy. City councilmembers voted 8-0 to send the $480 million levy to the Aug. 4 ballot after the ...

Seattle Public Library says it had a record number of visitors in 2025, according to its newly published impact report for ...

SEATTLE – Washington library programs are facing potentially “devastating consequences” after receiving notification last week that federal funding has been eliminated for programs like libraries at ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has signed off on a proposed library levy that would more than double the amount sought from taxpayers, sending the measure to voters in August. The proposal would ...

Despite the one-two punch of a ransomware attack over Memorial Day weekend — then the Crowdstrike software outage last week — Seattle Public Library will be back to normal soon. Charles Wesley, the ...