Seattle Nice has two interviews for you this week! On Friday’s show, we sat down with Mayor Katie Wilson and her budget ...

By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department overpaid police officers, management, and civilian staff a total of ...

Last week, I described Mayor Katie Wilson’s first budget as “small-c conservative,” because it eschews most of the budget tricks of recent years and achieves balance through 2030 not by raising taxes, ...

Mayor Katie Wilson’s proposed 2027 budget (announced earlier this week, while I was out of town) would accomplish something that her predecessor, Bruce Harrell, never really attempted: It would close ...

City council members who funded an unsustainable budget last year by using one-time dollars to fund tens of millions ...

By Josh Feit Councilmember Dionne Foster > Mayor Katie Wilson You couldn’t have a clearer juxtaposition. Mayor Wilson tried ...

Earlier this month, the King County Regional H Authority dropped a bombshell: That “missing” $8 million the financially ...

So says the study released this summer by an economist at UC Irvine about inclusionary zoning (IZ), a policy that requires builders to couple any market-rate housing ...

By Erica C. Barnett A Seattle Police Department officer, Adam Sun, is on administrative leave after using a pair ...

City Councilmember Dionne Foster has introduced a bill that will give developers a break on mandatory housing affordability fees for two years, with the goal of spurring projects forward at a time ...

Pallet Shelter, a company that manufactures freestanding, one-to-two-person shelter units that has been active in Seattle since 2022, is shutting down effective tomorrow—an abrupt closure that comes ...