Protesters gathered outside a TPUSA event featuring Erika Kirk in western Washington where speakers mixed Christian messages with conservative politics, sparking peaceful opposition.

The TPUSA tour stop drew about 100 protesters, competing ideas of Christianity and a quiet counter-gathering that wanted no part of the spectacle.

Kettle’s bill would ban ICE from staging operations on city-owned or city-controlled property, essentially codifying and broadening an executive order from Mayor Katie Wilson. Rinck’s bill...

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The city attorney’s office sees between 10,000 and 11,000 cases annually. “Knowing we have to not only focus on the stuff coming at us right now, but also tackle this ginormous, 5,100 case...

The Lavender Rights Project's Jaelynn Scott has never held public office. If elected, she would be the first openly trans person in the Washington State Legislature. She is running on crisis care; her...

I was excited to play. And then I lost. Twice.

My sister in law says there are serious astrological complications.

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New bodycam video brought eight people to the public comment period at yesterday’s City Council meeting. Six of them were at the protest that day. Some said they were brutalized and arrested, or...

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For Ray Mitchell, Renee Nicole Good’s blood is not only on the hands of the ICE agent who shot her—it’s on the hands of American leaders who “refuse to stand up.”

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City Councilmembers Dionne Foster and Alexis Mercedes Rinck were sworn in and Joy Hollingsworth unanimously appointed council president Tuesday in a packed council chambers at City Hall.

It was also her birthday. And because Ann Davison is gone, it's kind of your birthday.

It looked like a weekend campout: tents pitched in clusters, sodas and snacks scattered across picnic tables, upbeat music blasting through the speakers, and groups of young people milling about, laug...

Zahid was released around 3 p.m. this afternoon. The government’s attorney didn’t try to defend their position, admitted “point blank” that his detention was a mistake. "I mean...

At face value, the bill isn’t especially controversial—more transparency around who is advising city leaders is a good idea. But the reason? Sara Nelson’s either changed her mind abo...

The City Council meeting Tuesday was chaotic. The Seattle Police Officers’ Guild (SPOG) contract was up for a vote, more than 20 public commenters showed up to speak (and shout) against it. Some...

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Lin is part of a new progressive coalition at City Hall—incumbent Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck, Councilmember-Elect Dionne Foster, City Attorney-Elect Erika Davis, and Mayor-Elect Katie W...

“My heart is with the families of the victims and the entire Stockton community,” the governor said Monday afternoon.

A new Trump administration policy would force the country to disinvest from an evidence-based approach to homelessness dominant for over two decades, a move that could push 4,500 formerly homeless Sea...

Camille Baldwin-Bonney doesn’t buy it. The police accountability advocate and co-chair of People Power Washington called Mayor Bruce Harrell’s new anti-ICE executive orders “performative rather than s...

More than 1,000 union baristas at 65 stores across 40 cities are striking. In Seattle, workers will picket outside stores in the U-District (4147 University Way NE) and on Queen Anne (1144 Elliott Ave...

Last week, more than 200 people took a break from election-induced nail-biting to speak at the last City Council budget hearing, pleading for a slice of next year’s proposed $8.9 billion budget....

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The second ballot drop tells us "almost nothing."

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It's a tight one.

Let’s start with the big news: Progressives are ahead. Among likely voters, 33 percent plan to vote for Dionne Foster, compared to 24 percent who plan to vote for Sara Nelson. Erika Evans is pol...

Mpox cases are on the rise in King County, and local health officials are urging people that are eligible—and at risk—to get vaccinated. A Wednesday alert from Public Health Insider, the official blog...