The Seattle City Council has bigger issues to ponder than whether to add housing to the stadium district. It ought to table a proposal that would do just that.

The transition of power at the top of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) will officially commence this week. Sue Rahr, who has served as the interim police chief in Seattle since May 2024, will clear out of the office Wednesday according to a memo she sent out to SPD last week obtained by KING 5.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell this week defended his record on housing, balancing the budget, and public safety, and promised that 2025 will bring more accountability to the Seattle Police and more business downtown.

Analysis shows fewer than 3% of “protected” trees were actually preserved under the city’s controversial 2023 ordinance.

The $108 million investment in affordable housing is the first full allocation of funds after Seattle's approved 2023 housing levy, according to a release. Homeowners will be paying $970 million over seven years as part of the city's housing levy.

Voters are being asked to choose between two measures. One, a new tax, would raise an estimated $52 million a year in perpetuity. The other would earmark $10 million a year for five years.

City crews spent hours cleaning the streets and fixing vandalism in Seattle's Little Saigon neighborhood in a targeted operation Thursday afternoon.

SEATTLE — Five men have been federally indicted over drug trafficking in Seattle's homeless encampments and in the Chinatown-International District. Tommy Pham, Donfeuy Saephan, Khampheth Keodara, Sang Tran and Theodore Nation are all charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

The Seattle City Council chose Mark Solomon, a crime prevention coordinator with the Seattle Police Department, to fill the open District 2 seat left earlier this year by former member Tammy Morales.

Washington joined nearly two dozen other states Tuesday in challenging the Trump administration's temporary pause on federal grants and loans, the same day a federal judge blocked the funding pause from taking effect for now.

Industrial and agriculture groups have long pushed to protect the land around Seattle's deep seaport, and the debate was seemingly put to rest in 2023.

There's a specific new proposed measure that “would allow residential uses as a conditional use in the Stadium Transition Area Overlay District (STAOD). A public hearing will be held on Feb. 24.