Seattle City Council

Pearl Jam, Death Cab for Cutie, Tacocat: All these bands have called on Seattle officials to "Save the Showbox."Monday, that's what the Seattle City…

This week, people who want to save Seattle's Showbox theater came to City Hall.They don't want a developer to turn the 80 year old downtown concert venue…

Kim Malcolm talks with University of Washington sociology professor Kyle Crowder about a new study that looks at Seattle's rental housing market.Over the…

The Seattle City Council passed a domestic workers bill of rights Monday. It extends to Seattle’s 30,000 or so nannies, gardeners, home health workers and…

Soon, Seattleites who leave their guns lying around will be breaking the law. On Monday, the Seattle City Council approved an ordinance that requires…

Seattle’s Community Police Commission is asking the City Council to delay confirmation hearings for a new police chief until it can examine the selection…

It was called a head tax, but maybe it should have been called the Robin Hood tax.It would have taxed Seattle’s business behemoths — including Amazon,…

The city of Seattle appears to be doing an about-face on the new employee head tax on businesses. The City Council approved the tax unanimously a month…

It only took the Seattle City Council four weeks to double-back on their vote to tax big businesses in order to pay for affordable housing and…

The bloom is off the boom.That’s the message Ben Noble, director of the city’s budget office, gave Seattle City Council’s finance committee on April 30,…