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Washington's Court of Appeals will decide whether the legislature left a major loophole in place when it passed recent laws to prevent zoning changes that increase housing capacity in cities from being mired in lengthy legal appeals.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson rolled out new legislation intended to expedite production of emergency housing and homeless shelter at the Hope Factory in SoDo. She aims to produce 1,000 units in her first year.

Seattle Police delivered their report on federal immigration enforcement policies to the City Council, but did not directly address some questions, highlighting the limitations SPD faces in responding to ICE overreach in Seattle.

Iran’s sports minister told state television that the country cannot play in this year’s FIFA Men’s World Cup, including its June 26 game against Egypt in Seattle, according to reports from multiple media outlets Wednesday.

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The proposed $410 million levy is around 50% higher than the 2019 library levy, adjusted for inflation. With a focus on maintaining hours and modestly expanding services, the package doesn't include many big ticket items.

Here’s everything you need to know about the venue, located in the heart of Seattle and considered by many as the loudest in the country

The Seattle City Attorney’s Office is grappling with a large case backlog of more than 5,000 cases left by the previous administration run by Republican Ann Davison. Successor Erika Evans is hoping to tighten up practices to trim the backlog.

After rumors that a McDonalds is opening just up the street in the old vacant Rite-Aid building on Broadway, today Dick’s announced it’s prepared to compete against it with an even sticker, hairier ball pit.

“Everyone knows we’ve got the better burgers and fries no one would fake barely taking a bite of and now we’re going to have the most sticky, diseased ball pit in the city too,” said Dick’s CEO Jasmine Donovan. “And you can bet I’m not just dipping the tip of a socked toe in it like some prissy McDonald’s CEO—I’ll be diving in face-first to gargle those balls for all to see.”

This summer, Seattle becomes one of 16 North American cities to host FIFA World Cup matches.

That includes six games, a projected 750,000 visitors, and nearly a billion dollars flowing into King County.

Whether your favorite local business catches a windfall or gets relegated to the sidelines depends partly on how well they prepare, according to Lynnette Buffington with the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.

The Metropolitan King County Council voted Tuesday to ban any new detention centers in the county for at least the next year, becoming the latest local jurisdiction to attempt to block any new immigration detention facilities in the region.

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A global study named Seattle the best place to live in the U.S. and the eighth best in the world. See the full ranking here.

Jane speaks with regular contributor Marcus Harrison Green and special guest Andrew Eagleson, journalist and founder of The Cascadia Journal about soft-succession, bills in the legislature around data centers and surge-pricing.

This week Lynnwood became the first city in the state of Washington to officially terminate its contract with Flock and remove all its cameras to better protect the identities of everyone who has to live in Lynnwood.

A Sightline Institute study quantified the impact of growing up, not sprawling out, estimating that the Seattle metro area’s slightly less-sprawling growth since 2000 was keeping 1 million tons of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere every year, compared with what Seattleites would have been emitting if they had sprawled like Dallas.

King County Library System today announced KCLS Rewind, opens a new window, a first-of-its-kind challenge for adults that taps into the unmistakable thrill of earning pizza for turning pages – now remixed for the 21st century. Think pizza boxes, throwback playlists, and the satisfying click of a library checkout scanner. KCLS Rewind invites adults to relive a favorite childhood motivation while discovering everything today’s library has to offer. And if patrons didn’t get the chance to read for pizza in the 90s, they can discover it for themselves through KCLS Rewind.

The Seattle Social Housing Developer smashed projections and pulled in more than double the amount expected from a recently voter-approved "excess compensation tax." Social housing advocates' priority bill at the state legislature is also making significant progress.

The small infrastructure of Seatttle's Men's World Cup preparations continues with an announcement of four free fan zones in the city core.

Sound Transit tallied a record-smashing day, exceeding 200,000 boardings on Link light rail during Seattle's victory parade day. Lime added nearly 60,000 rides on its shared scooters and e-bikes.

Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is seeking to add a new football/soccer hybrid field for Lincoln High School in Lower Woodland Park, but has chosen a plan that prioritizes parking over accessibility and events, scrapping a recently rebuilt soccer field and historic trees to cram two fields into a footprint that’s too small. The community has proposed an alternative utilizing a gravel parking lot to site a soccer field.