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The ruling is the latest legal hurdle tripping up a proposal to close a 1.4-mile gap in the Burke-Gilman Trail, which a group of Ballard businesses has been fighting since 2008. Delays have heightened scrutiny of state environmental laws more broadly.

The World Cup provided a perfect platform for Seattle to show its best self.

SDOT recently released 60% designs for a two-way protected bike lane along Leary Way NW and invited feedback in a survey open through July 15. Dan Strauss has touted the connection as a way to finally fill the Missing Link, but not everyone is on board with the idea.

National publications have ranked Seattle at the top of the list among World Cup 2026 host cities, commending the city's centrally located, well-integrated stadium next door to a bounty of urban attractions.

Beyond the games themselves, World Cup crowds have made wonderful use of public infrastructure.

She’s also backing an opponent of a Democratic incumbent in a race for a state House seat representing part of the city.

Neighbors being neighborly in Wallingford

It's too bad that Iran didn't get the same chance as the rest of the field in this World Cup because I think they had a real chance to get out of the group if they could travel freely and stay at hotels like other teams. image via MeidasTouch

One World Cup tourist blissfully unaware every Limebike seat he rode on today was covered in a naked Fremont Solstice Parade reveler’s taintjuice over the weekend says he’s continuing to have an awesome time in Seattle.

Almost 67,000 soccer fans shook Seattle Stadium with electrifying screams, claps and jumps during the FIFA Men’s World Cup match between the U.S. and Australia on Friday — and they were strong enough to trigger seismic activity readings.

The rumbling peaked after U.S. defender Alex Freeman scored Team USA’s second goal against Australia, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. Fans waited with bated breath when Freeman was initially ruled offside, then erupted in celebration following a replay check that counted the goal.

Will the LLM decide you need an ambulance?

King County released new data illustrating the success of the permanent supportive housing model, but DESC’s recently opened Birch Grove complex may be its last to open for several years due to federal cuts targeting supportive housing.

Sound Transit's lofty Enterprise Initiative was aimed at getting ballooning budgets under control without cutting or delaying planned light rail projects. However, that may have been an overly ambitious goal, since the agency did have to resort to pulling those levers last month.

Around $90 million per year in additional funding will bolster King County's roads division thanks to the 5-4 vote, with a small pass-through program providing a slice of the pie to local cities and towns. A provision capping Seattle's cut of that funding was ultimately defeated.

In the latest upheaval at the mayor’s office, Mayor Katie Wilson’s communications director, Seferiana Day, is out. Day, who was out of the office for nearly two months due to a medical issue and has been on intermittent leave, was asked to resign after turning down an offer to take on a new role overseeing council-mayor relations, according to sources. The office will also undergo an internal reorganization, reassigning existing staffers to new positions and making Esther Handy Wilson’s permanent chief of staff (Handy is currently serving in an interim role.)

The George and Dragon from the list is in Phoenix, not Fremont (presumably because ours lost their liquor license)

More than 100 cyclists heaped flowers on a “ghost bike” memorial at the intersection of East Yesler Way and 12th Avenue South on Saturday afternoon to memorialize a Seattle teacher who was struck and killed while biking near the intersection.

Sound Transit’s new light rail connection over Lake Washington has unleashed a tsunami of new passengers between Bellevue and Seattle, boosting the regional total to 155,000 daily boardings.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson pushed back against a claim by Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt that if he’s elected, L.A.’s homeless population would move to Seattle to take advantage of that city’s drug laws.

A Texas company has formally signaled plans to build a data center in downtown Seattle, even as the city moves toward a moratorium that could impact the construction of such facilities.

Digital Realty of Austin, a real estate investment trust with more than 300 data centers worldwide, wants to demolish the building at 301 Virginia St. and replace it with a six-story structure: a data center on four floors plus a lab, office and retail space, permit filings show.

Lobbing Scorchers interviews Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson on the World Cup, social housing, pedestrianizing streets, transit, and more.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has proposed doubling a sales tax that funds transit service in Seattle, known as the Seattle Transit Measure, to 0.3 percent, up from the 0.15 percent tax that expires this year. The proposal would raise around $138 million over the next ten years to pay for bus service, service on the city’s two streetcars, and transit passes for low-income riders, among other programs.

The Sound Transit board voted Thursday to overhaul expansion plans, prioritizing the rail spine from Tacoma to Everett, while deferring indefinitely stations in Tukwila, Interbay, and Ballard. Seattle leaders got Graham Street back into plans, but lamented the stations put on ice.

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