Seattle City Council

Seattle voters will be asked in August if they want to continue paying for the city’s democracy voucher program.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is asking Seattleites to renew the city’s democracy voucher program that was first approved in 2015 through a citizen initiative.

After the first ballot count in the special election, Seattleites heavily favored a business tax instead of pulling from the Jumpstart payroll tax.

Seattle’s City Council will hold the first of three public hearings on a zoning plan that many feel could hinder the protection of trees and their growth for housing.

In a special February election, voters will decide what's next for social housing in Seattle. The ballot has two competing propositions for where the money would come from.

Analysis shows fewer than 3% of “protected” trees were actually preserved under the city’s controversial 2023 ordinance.

Twenty people are applying to be Seattle's next City Councilmember.

Following Morales' resignation, the Council must pick one of 20 applicants to represent South Seattle's District 2 until a special election this fall.

A federal judge has had a say in Seattle policing since 2012, when the city agreed to address biased policing and excessive use of force.

The progressive member from South Seattle says the more conservative majority has eroded her work as a policymaker.