Amy Radil

“I fully admit that I am not the most qualified candidate under normal circumstances,” Seattle mayoral candidate Joe Molloy said. “But I don’t feel like this city is under normal circumstances.”

Abandoned fishing lines are the focus of a volunteer cleanup effort at Seattle’s Green Lake this weekend. The stray lines are blamed for killing two owls along the water’s edge in recent years.

A federal judge in Seattle seemed to deliver a withering critique of President Donald Trump's Justice Department on Friday during a hearing over youth access to gender-affirming care.

A legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing refugee arrivals and funding is scheduled for a hearing before U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead in Seattle on Tuesday. Individual plaintiffs along with three nonprofits serving refugees are asking the court to put the order on hold while the case proceeds.

Seattle is currently mapping how it will grow over the next 20 years. Mayor Bruce Harrell wants to double the city’s housing capacity, with the hope of bringing down costs. But as residential neighborhoods open up to new types of housing, the city’s environmental impact statement predicts “moderate tree canopy loss” as a result.

The Seattle City Attorney’s office said it will once again allow a municipal court judge to hear criminal cases, after sidelining her for several months.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle was the first to block President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, blasting it as “blatantly unconstitutional” at an initial hearing Jan. 23. The case continues at a hearing before Coughenour on Thursday.

Richard Sitzlack confessed to fatally stabbing his roommate in 2023 but was never charged. Thirteen months later, he was arrested for allegedly stabbing Seattle bus driver Shawn Yim to death.

Seattle’s Community Police Commission was created to amplify the voices of communities affected by policing and weigh in on police reform. But internal conflicts, vacancies, and turnover have frustrated that mission in recent years, according to an outside review.

Whistleblower allegations of a kickback scheme involving a King County employee could prompt questions in the upcoming race for King County Executive.