Politics and Government

Seattle is now more than a year into a city-declared state of emergency around the issue of homelessness. On November 2, 2015, the office...

While the Seattle Police Officers Guild scored a big raise and new benefits, the new labor contract negotiated by Mayor Bruce Harrell will continue to hamper the City’s new civilian crisis response department and its police accountability agencies.

The $1.2 trillion package includes more than $7 billion for Washington State transportation infrastructure -- most of it highways. On Monday, surrounded by lawmakers from...

The Seattle Redistricting Commission approved its final map for Seattle City Council districts on Tuesday, making no further changes from the map we covered...

Mayor Bruce Harrell is proposing to expand his three-month-old surveillance pilot program by installing more police cameras and funneling data from hundreds of traffic management cameras into the Seattle Police Department’s real-time crime center. The move has draw criticism from civil liberties groups.

After losing three consecutive mayoral races and six of nine Council seats in two years, Seattle progressives sealed their best Primary election in over a decade. Across the board, Seattle progressives head into November as favorites.

Donald Trump’s ascension to the Republican presidential nomination has played out before our eyes over the past few month. At first, many of us...

The Urbanist Elections Committee invited state legislature candidates in the Seattle metropolitan region to fill out our questionnaire to participate in our endorsement process....