All three were pioneering state-level conservationists.

While the two men engaged in a mainly cordial manner, they did give the American people a clear view of their very different personalities, their diverse priorities and their underlying principles.

In the last 25 years, as the homelessness problem steadily grew, it became obvious that increasing housing production – many more low-income apartments and houses, too – is the only meaningful path to getting people permanently out of tents and doorways.

Within the first decade of the 20th century over 100 churches were established in Seattle.

Deciding on such a list is a formidable task in a region as literate as this one. It calls for a team effort. I am willing to start by picking 10 favorites.

Let's reduce the mystery to an analogy many Seattle-area shoppers can understand: The Mariners are trying to make a tasty meal exclusively from the free-sample stations at Costco. Lingering around the chicken-mint ice cream wagon does not make a worthy dinner.

A prominent sponsoring group was named the Shared Journey of Friendship US Youth Exchange Delegation. It consisted of around 190 teachers and students from 14 schools of seven U.S. states, and Tacoma's Lincoln High School was among them.

There’s a growing number of ecologically-friendly approaches to farming wine grapes, each with its own parameters. But until I spent an afternoon and evening with the Hagen family I had no clue what ‘grazing-based viticulture’ encompassed.

When the missiles started appearing in the skies over Israel on Oct 7 of last year, many of the young men and women at...

Harris criticized Trump and allied pro-Russia Republicans in Congress calling for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia to end the war. “These proposals are the same as those of Putin,” she agreed with Zelensky.

“The Russians started it,” we say — even if the NATO expansion under Clinton, Bush and Obama was why Putin started it. Still, he did start it. I agree that he’s a bad guy, but the need now is not to express our feelings about bad guys, but to end a war.

After touring “Community First! Village” in Austin the folks from Pierce County, are gearing up for such a site of their own on a ninety acre piece of land near Joint Base Lewis McCord. The Pierce County project will have 258 units.

How long would Seattle have to wait for a really good book-length history of the monumental State Route 99 Viaduct replacement tunnel – the...

During his hour-long budget presentation, the mayor looked grim but determined. It wasn’t a celebratory package.

Are companies now paying their “fair share?”  Of the “big five” revenue sources, two are entirely paid by businesses: the B&O tax, and the payroll tax. Businesses also pay a big chunk of the other three: property taxes, sales taxes, and utilities taxes.

“We have a lot of work to do,” Trudeau observed after Liberals tanked in the recent byelections. One factor working in his favor: The center-left Liberals may have time to do the work.

“A new era was dawning In the 1970s that would at once challenge the Port of Seattle to reinvent itself yet again and cause the people of Seattle to reimagine their beloved town and begin planning for its rapid emergence as a truly world-class city,” write the authors.

Some will remember Dan Evans as a fearless political warrior, fighting for a Republican Party that was not just moderate, but proudly progressive.

Dan Evans would deliver one line over and over: Once wilderness is penetrated by development, it is forever lost. Hence, it is best to be generous with protection.  

Viognier is the unlikely white wine grape that has grabbed the imagination of winemakers and inspired a devoted following among consumers.

The rule in Congress is that your first reelection is the toughest.

What’s the alternative to trying to justify ourselves, to making our own case? A practice which, by the way, inevitably results in dividing the world into the good and the bad, into “us” and “them.”

Seattle School Board appears poised to shut the doors on a good one-fourth of all students and their families. There's a better way.

Should voters give Initiative 2117 the green light in November, the financial falloff for state coffers would also put public transit investment back about five years.

Vance and QAnon have reprised, in petty, clownish, and in Vance’s case furry, four-footed form, the mother of all conspiracy theories: the blood libel against Jews.

The not-so-good news is that in all seven swing states where the election will be decided, the race is within the margin of error.

Our intrepid correspondent puts his body on the line to bring readers the scoop from inside the Big House.

Since 2000, two functional democracies have fallen under authoritarian rule. It wasn’t through insurrections but when authoritarian governmental laws accumulated incrementally. Is America experiencing that...

Both the very best and the most run-of-the-mill public art can be viewed at the four stations just opened along Link Light Rail Line 1, starting at Northgate and ending at Lynnwood.

The Huskies had the easier task. The Cougars Saturday established that they are making better progress.