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The bill before the council Tuesday would have allowed certain nonprofits to build larger buildings in an effort to encourage new affordable housing.
The Covenant Homeownership Program will begin distributing money in July to homebuyers whose families experienced housing discrimination.
The agreement took nearly four years to negotiate and was made public this week.
Inflation is the big driver of the money gap, but there are other factors. The result could be staff cuts, raising new money or repurposing...
The agreement, announced by Mayor Bruce Harrell on Monday, will make Seattle officers the highest paid in the state, leapfrogging them from 29th.
The storms are estimated to have caused more than $30 million in damage across 16 counties in Washington.
Congressional scrutiny of Boeing has ramped up since a Jan. 5 incident on an Alaska Airlines flight. But whether that scrutiny will drive any reform...
Gov. Jay Inslee is slamming proposals from leading gubernatorial contenders to buy diesel vessels to ease Washington's ongoing ferry system crisis.
Are you trying to convince people or understand them? The difference is key to finding common ground, says a frequent moderator of highly charged conversations.
An "embryonic movement" wants to bridge partisan divides. It has to first figure out why Republicans are less drawn to bridge-building efforts than Democrats.
