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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.
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The Washington State Broadband Office is planning for around $900 million in federal funds to come into the state for internet infrastructure projects. But first they have to understand why 250,000 households are without high-speed internet.
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Tacoma has an ambitious goal to increase its tree canopy and do so equitably. At Tacoma Tree Foundation's annual Branch Out event, community partners distributed and planted almost 500 trees. Homeowners, city leaders and volunteers described growing momentum through this kind of community outreach.
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Amid increasing heat waves driven by climate change, the role of trees in urban environments becomes more crucial every year. Tacoma has fewer trees than any other city in the Puget Sound region – and some of the most aggressive goals to change that.
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The King County Board of Health has voted to repeal its decades-old mandatory helmet law for bicycle riders, saying data shows enforcement has been both minimal and disproportionate toward people of color and those experiencing homelessness.
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In Pierce County, someone living in one ZIP code can live up to six years longer than someone living less than a mile away. That’s according to data from…
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Nearly half of citations by Seattle police under King County’s bike helmet law went to people struggling with homelessness. And Black people were four…
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The protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have sparked a surge of activism among high school students around issues of racial…
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King County is getting a new, 5-acre park. It will serve an urban area where residents currently have to travel at least 2 miles to get to open space.…