About two months after being forced to resign, Shon Barnes was hired by an Arizona-based company selling surveillance technology to law enforcement agencies.

An initiative on November’s ballot aims to overturn the 9.9% tax on earnings above $1m – who’s winning the fight?

City council votes unanimously in favor of bill that also protects multigenerational households

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New Seattle-area office leases surpassed 2 million square feet for the second straight quarter.

The city’s tourism board estimated 750,000 visitors would visit over the course of the World Cup

By: Nate Bek A non-exhaustive list of C-Suite execs at tech giants headquartered elsewhere — who call the Emerald City home.

Seattle tends to be about two years behind San Francisco, a JLL researcher says. So, when companies like OpenAI or Anthropic grow in Silicon Valley, it's only a matter of time before the spillover rea...

What can Seattle leaders learn from Bellevue? The Downtown Seattle Association has some thoughts.

The Seattle Fire Department started using AI technology during live 911 calls in 2023. There hasn't been any public review process.

Measure expected to pass next week represents major rebuke to big tech as local disquiet over AI boom grows

Until Monday, Police Chief Shon Barnes was on the board of the Policing Project, which Mayor Wilson has tapped to do a security audit of police surveillance cameras here. By Erica C. Barnett On Monday, PubliCola exclusively confirmes, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes abruptly stepped down from the advisory board of New York University's Policing Project— the organization that Mayor Katie Wilson tapped to perform a data and security audit of Seattle's police surveillance cameras.

Regulators narrow securities definitions – a shift that could benefit Trump family’s crypto projects

Advocates hope cities like Seattle will soon establish similar legal protections for people who are in polyamorous or other nontraditional relationship structures.

Incognito dispatches from a Washington State Ferries deckhand

With Millionaires Tax on the table, youth activists confront Olympia's power elite.

Newly released documents detail convicted sex offender’s early backing of bitcoin and Coinbase

A leaked pitch to reshape Ethereum’s leadership exposed deep divisions over politics, power and Ether’s static price

From athletes such as Tristan Thompson to artists such as Iggy Azalea, celebrities have returned to hawking crypto

Intended to bolster local access to lending, large credit unions today are swallowing up community banks. A Trump purge has reduced their oversight.

Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

Some current and former city staff and elected officials say the arrangement represented a thorny conflict between politics and governance.

The GENIUS Act barred stablecoin issuers from paying interest. But in allowing cryptocurrency exchanges to offer rewards, it set off a high-stakes clash with the US banking industry.