Seattle's teachers union is fighting for a better contract, with reducing class sizes and preventing special education cuts among top aims. It's an issue state legislators have long let fester, says Kelabe Tewolde, an educator and state House candidate in the 37th LD.

The school-meals debate and the departure of Police Chief Shon Barnes reveal a city too willing to speak for Black Seattle and too reluctant to listen.

Seattle City Council President Joy Hollingsworth passed an amendment to the supplemental budget redirecting $250,000 in unused funding, originally set aside for an unrealized surveillance camera expan...

Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes wasn’t a martyr; he embodied the status quo, and Mayor Katie Wilson was right to oust him and push for true police accountability, argues Cliff Cawthon, a longtime com...

A Black police chief does not guarantee safer Black communities. Gennette Cordova calls on Seattle to demand accountability beyond representation.

Seattle rallied when gun violence struck its "civic living room." Marcus Harrison Green asks why South End deaths have so rarely received the same urgency.

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.

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King County released new data illustrating the success of the permanent supportive housing model, but DESC’s recently opened Birch Grove complex may be its last to open for several years due to federal cuts targeting supportive housing.

Advances in surveillance technologies haven’t meant we’re safer in our homes near UW’s campus, as Juniper Blessing's murder shows.

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As states enact stricter work requirements for the federal food stamp program, a new analysis suggests those requirements won’t enhance employment and will push more people off of food assistance.

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How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

What we are witnessing is not merely another military action or an oil-heist money grab disguised as American compassion for the citizens of a nation under dictatorial rule. It is the ongoing executio...

Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.