Downtown Seattle

Built largely during the pandemic, the Seattle Convention Center's new Summit building promises to bring more foot traffic at a time when downtown businesses are clamoring for it.

What makes a particular Christmas unforgettable? Maybe it’s a surprise guest or a perfect gift or some sort of event that becomes family legend. But for KNKX's Nick Morrison, his most memorable Christmas happened because of slow city buses in downtown Seattle in 1975.

Seattle is working overtime to bring its downtown back. The loss of tourists and office workers the past year and a half left the area struggling. The…

A steep drop in hotel tax revenue has jeopardized the construction of a sprawling new convention center facility that sits about 30 percent complete along…

The Presiding Judge of King County Superior Court says open air drug dealing and harassment outside the county courthouse in downtown Seattle has reached…

Seattle Police say they’re prepared for whatever happens at protests tomorrow for May Day, the international day to celebrate workers that has become a…

Seattle's downtown looks "spectacularly disjointed." That's the assessment of landscape architect Shannon Nichol after walking every block in a 65-acre…

The race for mayor of Seattle has put public safety downtown front and center, and at first it might seem to be following a familiar storyline: a…

Last weekend’s random killing of Shoreline Community College English Professor Troy Wolff in Pioneer Square has prompted Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn to call…

Editor's note: KPLU has asked all nine candidates in the Seattle mayoral race to tell us about a time when his or her leadership skills were put to the…