Proposition 1A grabbed nearly 58% of the election night vote tally, signaling social housing is on the way to victory in ...

Kirkland Connections is a new 24/7 mental health crisis center that could prove a model for the five crisis centers a county ...

Join The Urbanist for our February social events in Seattle, Redmond, and Shoreline. Next up is our Big Time Brewery meetup ...

With an eye toward adding new passenger ferry service by 2026, HB 1923 would expand the number of transit agencies able to operate foot ferries, and also set up a new state grant to fund them. (Ryan ...

The 2025 delivery plan for the first year of the Seattle Transportation Levy spells out a broad array of projects that will enter the pipeline this year. (Ryan Packer) Following the landslide approval ...

American freeways are almost universally car-choked, often with a dozen or more car lanes with vehicles belching out and kicking up deadly pollution. Those impacts fall heavily on people who live, ...

On Wednesday, the One Seattle Comprehensive Plan faced its first official public hearing since the Seattle City Council has taken on Mayor Bruce Harrell’s 20-year growth plan. Housing advocates ...

The 1,300 page environmental review of the One Seattle plan shows that the Mayor's preferred plan would increase hardscape, tree removal, and greenhouse gas emissions, while decreasing affordable ...

Backers of Initiative 1A highlighted a flood of cash from the region's large corporations, including Amazon, promoting alternative measure 1B. (Ryan Packer) On Friday, backers of Proposition 1A, the ...

State Sen. Noel Frame (D-36th, Seattle) is leading the charge for a wealth tax to invest in public schools. She also secured a post on the Senate Ways and Means Committee in the 2025 legislative ...

Mayor Bruce Harrell promised to boost housing production during his campaign, but he's fighting a social housing initiative. (Syris Valentine) Seattle voters received Prop 1B campaign mailers riddled ...

WSDOT is mulling boosting Amtrak Cascades service to 16 daily runs, but no options tackle the speed and reliability improvements to truly unlock the corridor's potential. State lawmakers may give the ...