The Seattle Public Library does far more than contribute to the intellectual life of our city.

Our bummer summer has an upside for Washington's parched farmers. But rural communities are still bracing for drier summers ahead.

Undocumented immigrants are preparing for the worst by assigning guardians for their children.

Migrantes indocumentados se preparan para lo peor, designando tutores para sus niños.

Could it be one giant leap for Boeing’s Apollo legacy?

The city is creating a so-called 'community preference policy,' meant to help keep low-income residents from being pushed out of their gentrifying communities.

Microsoft's Vidya Srinivasan has faced the challenges of excelling in tech while having children head-on. Now she's helping other women do the same.  

A local writer reflects on fear, family and fatigue as the Trump administration prepares to mount deportation raids in cities across the country.

Few politicians think August is the best month for turnout. But a few factors, including fundraising, may mean the election date’s here to stay.

In Washington state, abolitionists have succeeded in shrinking the scope of state punishment and making prisons more humane. But their work is far from done.

On this episode of Mossback's Northwest, a look at what happened on June 24, 1947 when a pilot flew near Mt. Rainier.

A Seattle City Council committee voted unanimously to tie service provider wages to inflation, teeing it up for likely approval by the full council.

Salmon-rich Bristol Bay is a cornerstone of Washington's seafood industry. But many say a mine 20 years in the making could threaten all of it. 

Seattle's first-in-the-nation program for publicly financing campaigns has been OK'd by the state's highest court.

It is time we consider a new dedicated, reliable, equitable and adequate funding source for salmon and killer whale recovery.

Rep. Adam Smith has introduced legislation that would effectively stop the Department of Energy from reclassifying the site's most hazardous wastes. 

Hari Kondabolu, Shakespeare, the debut of a new dance company and other cultural happenings. 

The plant would be bad for the environment, and the Chinese-backed company responsible for it has not been a forthright corporate citizen.

At MadArt, artist Beili Liu builds on her own memories of migration.

Few officers say they'd recommend working for the Seattle Police Department, a problem for the mayor's efforts to grow the force.