The AI industry is spending big money this midterm election to fill congress with as many corporate shills as possible and two of them are here in Washington State. The industry’s best-funded super PA...

Goodman Real Estate, the same Seattle-based real estate company that’s tried to buy the Mayor’s office and a corporate majority on the Seattle City Council every cycle in recent memory, just threw dow...

Just recently a “change candidate,” Mayor Katie Wilson took a page from tradition in her first crack at the City budget: Cuts for almost every department besides the cops. In part, her hands were tied...

Seattle internet enjoyers proclaimed over the weekend they would find a new quirky establishment from which to buy their rubber chickens when several viral posts exposed that the owner of novelty shop...

The UW 33, a group of UW students and community members who occupied a campus building funded by war profiteer Boeing, will not go to trial, face jail time, or face any fines after they sign pretrial ...

Washington State has helped ICE arrest 76 people just this year thanks to an exemption in the State’s flagship law protecting immigrants. These arrests account for a small percentage of overall ICE ar...

The University of Washington wants to crackdown on protest, pushing changes to the Student Code of Conduct that would trump up punishment for students that cover their faces or are merely present when...

Washington’s most groan-inducing Democratic member of Congress crossed party lines this week to support an amendment condemning socialism, clearly in response to the Democratic Socialists of America’s...

Uber Eats will pay more than $4.3 million to over 14,000 gig workers for allegedly violating Seattle’s App-Based Worker Minimum Payment Ordinance thanks to the enforcement of Seattle’s Office of Labor...

Earlier this year, Washington State House Representatives Melanie Morgan (D-Tacoma) and Amy Walen (D-Kirkland) crossed party lines to oppose the signature progressive legislation of the session: the M...

Right wingers are losing what’s left of their lead-paint-infected minds over the Seattle City Council allocating a measly $300,000 to LGBTQ+ organizations grappling with an influx of trans and queer p...

The Seattle City Council voted 8-0 to pass Mayor Katie Wilson’s rental junk fee ban, legislation that codifies what fees landlords can impose, mandates upfront transparency, and bans any charges not e...

At their 2pm Tuesday meeting, the Seattle City Council will vote on Mayor Katie Wilson’s junk fee ban, an ordinance that lays out what landlords can charge for, mandates upfront transparency for those...

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...

The 2026 election could be another “change” election with younger challengers aiming to unseat longtime incumbents in several State legislative races around Seattle. But these young, scrappy candidate...

State House candidate Ron Davis is accusing his opponent Will Dreher’s campaign of stealing thousands of dollars of campaign yard signs — and over the weekend, they obtained video they believe proves ...

Tens of people gathered outside of the Seattle Storm vs. Indiana Fever basketball game to support the WNBA’s transphobe of the month, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. The bench warmer suddenly r...

It’s happening again. The bosses at Puget Consumers Co-op (PCC) are once again sending workers home from their shifts at the Greenlake Village location for wearing watermelon pins, a symbol commonly a...

After picking a pointless fight and losing miserably in the court of public opinion Wednesday, three Seattle City Council’s changed course and decided they don’t need to pit one child’s hungry belly a...

The tides are turning on the U.S.’s favorite genocidal ally! Almost half of House Democrats voted “yes” on an amendment to cut off aid to Israel Wednesday afternoon. While the amendment ultimately fai...

Last month, Seattle University tripped and fell under the international spotlight when a video of Provost Shane Martin snatching a Palestinian flag from a student as she crossed the stage at graduatio...

Mayor Katie Wilson, Seattle’s first renter mayor in recent memory, just announced legislation to combat the pesky “junk” fees landlords tack onto Seattle tenants’ already exorbitant rents. After seven...

To the surprise of some of her critics, Mayor Katie Wilson followed through on her promise to shut off Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) cameras the City recently install...

Support The Burner

The political action committee that helped defeat an anti-Zionist Jewish candidate as its very first electoral interventions has now set its sights on another outspoken supporter of Palestine — promin...

Seattle University faced international backlash when a clip of Provost Shane Martin yanking the Palestinian flag from a student as she crossed the stage at graduation went viral earlier this month. Ma...

“I am grateful to live in a City where employees that speak out politically are legally protected against retaliation.”That’s how several Amazon workers associated with Amazon Employees for Climate Ju...

Seattle City Light wants its biggest rate hikes in years, citing surging electricity demand, aging infrastructure and the need for new clean energy.