Seattle turned into a vastly riskier place to live for poor people. It became nearly impossible to afford even the cheapest market-rate housing.

Professor Jacob Vigdor has conservative bonafides and raised progressives' ire with his past research on the minimum wage. But now he's all in for Washington to tax the rich.

Vigdor is a professor at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance with a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He said ...

and I could see the look of confusion on their faces,” she says. That changed this year, when Seattle’s tipped minimum wage system, in place for a decade, came to an end. Now things are ...

The fundraising campaign was unique. The theatre had secured a $500,000 gift for to renovate the 226-seat venue, but needed ...

Many UW students are currently making the decision to remain in Seattle over the summer for reasons such as successfully ...

Explore the Seattle media's stance on the Virginia Inn's closing and its implications for Pike Place Market preservation.

Bruce Batuli Daniel, a 41-year-old from Congo who works as a cabin cleaner at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, worries ...

“I was unaware of everything, I was unaware of minimum wage, unaware of what I should have been making,” Bello said. To ...

At her newly opened bakery, she’s taken everything she’s learned from a career in New York City fine dining and plated ...