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Newly released texts involving Mayor Jenny Durkan and City Councilmember M. Lorena González underscore how polling results helped spike the city’s head tax and offer...
The records that have surfaced are significant, two open-government advocates said this week, because they appear to demonstrate that mostthe council secretly conferred to take...
An investigation into Washington state Rep. Matt Manweller has found that he engaged in a pattern of inappropriate behavior with female students while he was...
In addition to upzoning parts of 27 neighborhoods, the plan would require developers to build or pay for a number of apartments affordable to households...
Manweller blasted the university’s investigation into him, calling it politically motivated. In a text message Tuesday, Manweller wrote that he intended to file a lawsuit...
The number of Seattle permit applications completing initial review plummeted 75 percent from April to May, from 266 to 66. Builders say problems with the...
In response to a Seattle Times story published Wednesday, the Mariners acknowledged that current CEO Kevin Mather had previously been the subject of two workplace...
Three women accused Mariners executives of inappropriate workplace conduct in 2009-10, a Seattle Times investigation found. And in 2015, camera operators at Safeco Field shot...