Former Seattle City Councilmember Tim Burgess and a bevy of business groups are tired of the tents. They have a vision: The city should, very quickly, create a lot of new shelter or housing.

It is hard to imagine the Northwest without wilderness and outdoor recreation — mountain ranges to climb and trails to hike. These recreations exist due to the hard work and advocacy of many ...

As the midterms draw to a close, two strategists and an elected leader discuss how our two major parties gain — and wield — political control.

The landscapes and forests of the Pacific Northwest influence and impact so many who have lived here or traveled through. This place is alive. It speaks. It vibrates. For some, it’s a spiritual ...

While the Twin Cities burn, it should not be lost on us that Seattle, also liberal, also majority-white, suffers from its own troubling history of segregation and police violence. A federal judge ...

The pink elephant is migrating. The playful pachyderm, whose rotating, neon-lit bulk was a beacon for countless commuters stuck in gridlock traffic on Denny Way, is being pushed out of its natural ...

Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute; U. N. Messenger of Peac ...

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The loss of Washington Mutual is a very big, very bad deal for the Seattle region. Its scope is just beginning to sink in. Large, locally run public companies are a major civic asset, as they ...

Bonnie Henderson's 'The Next Tsunami' explains the West Coast's complicated history with disaster, tectonics and denial. The '64 Alaska quake, most known for its images of a devastated downtown ...

Keith Hoeller is an Adjunct Philosophy Instructor in our community colleges and the editor of Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System (Vanderbilt University Press).

Tag along for an early-morning walk through the soul of Seattle, where the city's cranky conscience awakens to coffee and a cigarette and resumes a 100-year ritual of haggling and people-watching.