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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine adjusts his tie while waiting for the first train to leave Federal Way on opening day. (Doug Trumm) Deferring Seattle’s second downtown transit tunnel may be a last ...

King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci is pushing her Sound Transit board colleagues to weigh the option of skipping a second downtown Seattle transit tunnel, but the idea could get ruled out this ...

Mark Ostrow serves on the board of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and is a core leader of Queen Anne Greenways. Follow him on Bluesky at ‪@qagggy. A trove of documents obtained from City of Seattle ...

After pivoting away from an aggressive schedule for battery-bus adoption, King County Metro plans to focus attention on the tried-and-true trolley network. But limited staff, delays obtaining ...

Since voters approved West Seattle and Ballard Link in 2016, the two light rail projects have been caught in a perfect storm of factors that led to the eye-popping cost estimates that we have today.