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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is seeking to add a new football/soccer hybrid field for Lincoln High School in Lower Woodland ...

Bikeshare growth has waxed and waned over the years. The impact of systems vary greatly today in terms of cost, coverage, ...

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 ...