Bruce Harrell

Seattle's mayor and city attorney say they want to use a new state law to push people into treatment — but what happens when that's not available?

This week Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced his proposed budget for 2024. Approximately 6,000 city workers are in the middle of contract negotiations at the same time, pushing for more pay.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the city has hired six community responders to help police with lower priority 911 calls.

Whether or not to add housing to Mayor Bruce Harrell's industrial zoning proposal has split the city's maritime and trade unions — posing a sticky political question for Seattle City Council.

The City of Seattle will end its COVID-19 emergency proclamation at the end of October to align with Gov. Jay Inslee’s decision to end the statewide state of emergency on Oct. 31.

The mayor and city council are doubling the size of a property tax that funds Seattle parks. But how many parks does it actually go to? Turns out it's a little complicated.

The Seattle Police Department has stopped investigating new reports of sexual assaults with adult victims, according to an internal memo sent to Interim Police Chief Adrian Diaz. Reporters Ashley Hiruko from KUOW and Sydney Brownstone of the Seattle Times sat down with KNKX's Vivian McCall to explain why this is happening and what this means for victims.

Seattle will create a database of homeless camps and provide more than $100 million to a regional group trying to tackle the region’s ongoing crisis of people without homes. Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the plan on Tuesday.

Members of Washington's Congressional delegation are reacting to yesterday's mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Multiple elected leaders call for strengthening gun laws, both at the local and national level, to prevent another school shooting.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has been in office for four months. In that time, the issues that he campaigned on, have made the news. Namely, affordable housing, homelessness, policing and crime. KNKX's Kirsten Kendrick sat down with Harrell, for a quarterly check-in with the mayor.