Students wait for a bus in the fall of 1978, when Seattle began districtwide busing to desegregate schools. (Kathy Andrisevic / The Seattle Times, 1978)
(Kathy Andrisevic / The Seattle Times, 1978)
Education Lab

Segregation in Seattle schools is worse today than the 1980s

Seattle was the nation’s first major city to voluntarily integrate schools. A new Times analysis shows that some city schools are more segregated today than decades ago. What happened?

Memorial Day Weekend

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Politics

Biden and GOP rush to finalize debt ceiling deal, shore up support to prevent default VIEW

Opinion

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Local News

A Seattle Park and Recreation worker cleans up Little Brook Park with a leaf blower in Lake City on Sept. 16, 2022.

Steps to phase out the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in Seattle

Featured Columnist

Turns out WA's wealthiest are richer than even the tax collectors guessed

Project Homeless

Social service workers rally at Seattle City Hall over proposed budget cuts
Kent tightens homeless camping ban with new ordinance
Four WA communities tried to end youth homelessness. One is seeing success
Q&A: New Seattle Parks leader talks homelessness, public safety

Business & Tech

The Ballard Locks photographed with a drone looking west towards the Salmon Bay Waterway and Shilshole Bay on Saturday, March 11, 2023. There was a collision in the Ballard Locks, Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, last May that is now going to court.

After an $800,000 yacht pileup in the Ballard Locks, a fleet of lawyers arrives

Featured Columnist

Breaking up is hard to do: Decoupling the West from China

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Nation & World

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Food & Drink

To keep bread at its best, it’s important to remember one rule: Don’t put it in the fridge.

How to store bread to keep it fresher longer

Pacific NW Magazine

It was ‘an epochal event’ when this Seattle bridge opened

Lake Chelan reflects the Northern Lights in this wow-worthy reader photo

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Arts & Life

Summer Guide 2023: All the ideas you need to have a sweet Seattle summer

Photography

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Huskies

Photos: UW softball hosts Louisiana in super regionals Game 2 VIEW

Riley Rose Tabladillo, 6 yrs., from the Amercian Heritage Girls helps place flags on the graves of veterans at Purdy & Walters at Floral Hills Funeral Home & Cemetery in Lynnwood on Saturday, May 27, 2023.
Local News

Placing flags in respect and remembrance for Memorial Day in Lynnwood VIEW

Pitcher Ruby Meylan hugs teammate Sydney Stewart following Stewart’s 2-run homer in the fourth. 224030
Huskies

Photos: UW softball hosts Louisiana in super regionals Game 1 VIEW

Seattle Storm center Mercedes Russell grimaces as she spins around Dallas Wings forward Natasha Howard during the first quarter. 224038
Storm

Photos: Storm vs. Wings VIEW