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

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

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

Immigration officials were provided names and given access to other information of people under arrest. The sheriff's office claims it was all a mistake.

 In the two-plus decade since teen suicide prevention made a major impact a new wave of deaths is prompting new approaches to the problem.

Crosscut and KCTS 9 have earned high honors during this award season.

Parts of the new legislation faces opposition from the ACLU of Washington and hotel industry groups.

On Memorial Day, a Rainier Beach park was pelted with gunfire. A month later, those closest to the violence reflect.

The candidates competing to represent a complex chunk of NE Seattle each represent a different vision for the direction of the city.

King County Superior Court says expanding Pike Place Market to include the venue was an illegal zoning change.

A nationwide study claims coastal states would need to invest more than $400B. Locals applaud the effort, but say the math and the method aren’t quite right.

Naloxone, known commercially as Narcan, will soon be required in many Washington state high schools, to help save the lives of students experiencing an opioid overdose.

After winning an endorsement from the King County Labor Council in 2015, the incumbent council member loses it this year to Zachary DeWolf.

Northgate's Station 31, long suspected of making firefighters sick, was emptied Monday night after the discovery of mold-related toxins.

The project will dramatically increase tanker traffic in the Salish Sea, and with it the risk of a major spill.