The Seattle City Council will introduce a bill banning natural gas in new buildings starting next year, hoping to fight global warming and meet the city’s goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
Read moreThe Seattle Mariners’ stadium, T-Mobile field, is not fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, a federal court in Washington ruled. Seating dimensions, an elevator and bullpen and dugout access are not compliant, and further proceedings are required to determine whether there are enough accessible seats in the stadium.
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Seattle’s income tax on wealthy residents is unconstitutional, the Washington Court of Appeals held, but left the door open for the city to impose property taxes based on income if they are uniform across tax brackets.
Read moreSeattle is giving each of its voters four $25 “Democracy Vouchers” that they can give to City Council or city attorney candidates, split them among different candidates, or choose not to donate at all.
Read moreOfficials in Washington state on Monday were expected to release the identities of the four people killed when a construction crane fell from a Seattle building. The King County Medical Examiner’s office said it would release the names of the woman and three men who died Saturday afternoon when the crane crashed onto one of Seattle’s busiest streets.
Read moreMicrosoft pledged $500 million to address homelessness and develop affordable housing in response to the Seattle region’s widening affordability gap.
Read moreA major commuter highway on downtown Seattle’s waterfront will shut down for good Friday, ushering in what officials say will be one of the most painful traffic periods in the history of the booming Pacific Northwest city.
Read moreA Washington county violated an anti-Muslim group’s free speech rights when it refused to run bus ads displaying the names and headshots of 16 purported terrorists, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a challenge to a Seattle ordinance allowing app-based drivers to unionize, agreeing the claims are not ripe.
Read moreA federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the release of downloadable 3D-printed gun files on Tuesday, less than a day before they were to be released online.
Read moreLooking for a plastic straw to sip your soda? It’s no longer allowed in Seattle bars and restaurants.
Read moreEight years after passing a law to ban straws and plastic utensils in Seattle’s bars and restaurants, the ban took effect Sunday and businesses that don’t comply now face $250 fines.
Read moreThe Seattle City Council violated public meetings laws by deliberating in private before a special vote on Tuesday that repealed the newly passed employee head tax on large businesses, a suit filed Thursday in King County Superior Court claims.
Read moreIn a surprise move, the Seattle City Council voted 7-2 to repeal a $275-per-employee homeless services tax on the city’s largest businesses passed unanimously just weeks ago.
Read moreThe city of Seattle might have to hand over data from ride-hail companies like Lyft to a private citizen as part of a records request, even though the records may contain the companies’ trade secrets, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe Seattle City Council voted today to fund homeless services with a $275-per-employee tax on the city’s largest businesses, including Amazon.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Friday revived the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s challenge to Seattle’s ordinance allowing app-based drivers like Uber and Lyft to unionize, finding the law could violate federal antitrust rules.
Read moreThe Rental Housing Association of Washington and others sued Seattle on Tuesday in King County Court, saying the city’s “Fair Chance Housing Ordinance” unconstitutionally prohibits landlords from screening applicants for criminal records.
Read moreSeattle police officers Scott Miller and Michael Spaulding claim in a federal complaint that Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant defamed them by calling them murderers and racial profilers after they shot a violent felon and rapist as they tried to arrest him, and that she did so “for personal gain.”
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