In September 2024, the Seattle City Council approved Stay Out of Drug Areas and Stay Out of Areas of Prostitution zones, ...

The fate of a proposed 1,300-acre solar farm in south-central Washington is back in the hands of Gov. Bob Ferguson.

A new report from the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights found that federal immigration enforcement has been ...

The roughly 300,000 Washingtonians who buy health insurance through the state’s online marketplace are set for a rude ...

A new proposed contract between the city of Seattle and its police officers guild contains pay increases and a more ...

We get news on a potential deal between the city and the Seattle police union, a slightly better city budget projection and how the city might spend the revenue from the sales tax increase ...

Libby Denkmann joined KUOW in December 2021 as the host of the midday show Soundside. She’s a native Pacific Northwesterner who grew up in Redmond, graduated from the University of Washington, and ...

It wouldn't be spooky season without ghosts. But they weren't always the evil spirits we see in books and movies today. For ...

This fall’s election is an important one for a job overseeing more employees and a larger budget than the mayor of Seattle.

Newcomer Zohran Mamdani, age 34, has used social media and big progressive ideas to shoulder past Andrew Cuomo, who's 67 and ...

The federal government remains shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the shutdown is affecting services across the ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...