City of Seattle

yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective received a $100,000 grant from the city of Seattle for food sovereignty work. The group is slowly uncovering and restoring an untamed acre and a half in South Seattle, to create space for growing food and self-determination.

Five major U.S. cities and the state of California will receive federal help to get unsheltered residents into permanent housing. The plan was launched Thursday and is part of the Biden administration’s larger goal to reduce homelessness 25% by 2025.

Despite its reputation as ‘the Emerald City’ in ‘the Evergreen State,’ Seattle has been losing trees. A long-awaited update to the city’s tree protection ordinance will be voted on by Seattle City Council next week.

After losing 255 acres of tree canopy in the last five years, long awaited-amendments to Seattle's tree ordinance have been released. It’s a balancing act between making room for more housing and ensuring that the urban forest thrives.

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant wants to add caste to the city's anti-discrimination policy in Seattle workplaces, saying discrimination takes place based on the South Asian practice of assigning people their social status at birth.

In cities like Seattle, redistricting can shift the balance of power between neighborhoods simply by splitting some neighborhoods up – and bringing others together.

"Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City" explores Seattle's early economic history and the role that Asian immigrants and Indigenous workers played. KNKX's Emil Moffat spoke with author Megan Asaka.

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.

A longtime employee of the Seattle Department of Transportation who sent a Black woman racist and threatening messages at the height of the protests over the police killing of George Floyd in 2020 is still working with the city agency. The street inspector, who is white, filed a lawsuit against the city alleging discrimination and retaliation. The city settled with the inspector earlier this year.

King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg has asked Sheriff Patti Cole-Tindall to investigate the deletion of text messages from the phones of then-Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, the fire chief and then police chief in 2020.