A new lawsuit against the Northwest ICE detention center in Tacoma underscores the abusive conditions detainees face, which ...

Economic justice advocate John Burbank lays out the case for Washington state lawmakers to keep the estate tax, rather than capitulating to pressure to reduce Washington's rate to avoid a feared ...

On Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson pledged to attack affordability on four different fronts: housing, childcare, food, and small business opportunities. It was her first State of the City speech ...

Some cities like Seattle have significant retail vacancy rates while in other places those rates are fairly low. SB 6026 seeks to put housing production ahead of requirements to add spaces like these.

The 41-7 vote in the Washington State Senate advances a proposal that would allow builders more flexibility to install smaller elevators in smaller apartment buildings, a small step toward bringing U.

A proposal, dubbed the Mosquito Fleet Act, to empower local governments across Puget Sound to set up their own passenger ...

Intended to reduce barriers that are preventing lower-density commercial buildings getting redeveloped into housing, SB 6026 would target mandates for storefronts in new housing projects. (Ryan Packer ...

Pre-applications for new units in Bothell last year topped 1,000 for the first time in recent history, a big indicator of interest following major changes to Bothell's zoning code in 2024. Such ...

Local permitting plays a big role in how fast light rail projects can move forward -- with local processes often slowing things down. (Ryan Packer) Sound Transit could soon get a big leg up in its ...

The full list of 430 levy-funded projects across Seattle was mostly assembled when Mayor Katie Wilson took office. But it contains significant opportunities for the new administration to shape ...

The Seattle City Council is proposing to significantly scale back the number of construction projects that would require project-level State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) review in a bid to boost ...

Getting King County on board with going to the voters for a supplementary funding source for Metro has long been a goal of regional transit advocates. But making it happen this year will likely be a ...