Nicole Thomas-Kennedy doesn't want to be a progressive prosecutor. If elected to replace three-term incumbent Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, she wouldn't want to prosecute much of anything at all.

Of all the horrors emerging from the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, perhaps none is so menacing as the sight of a community garden full of tomato seedlings sprouting inside of coronavirus circles.

“Do you work for the cops?” a man asked, shaking a half-full pack of Marlboros at me. “No,” I said, helping myself to a cigarette. “I’m a reporter. I’m trying to figure out what’s going on over there.

On Thursday afternoon a volunteer medic from the Capitol Hill Organized Protest intervened in a sexual assault occurring inside a tent in Cal Anderson park, stopping the situation from escalating any ...

With Pride season upon us and businesses cautiously re-opening, now might be a nice time to spend some time in Seattle’s traditional gayborhood: The mudflats below the Deadline. Wait, where? Long ...

A Seattle cop who has been guarding Mayor Jenny Durkan's $7.5 million mansion said the post sometimes leaves shifts at the North Precinct understaffed and subjects officers to hours of boredom without ...

"The life expectancy of trans women of color is just 35 years old." This statistic is frequently recited by activists, allies, and the media, and it's not hard to see why. Globally, life expectancy is ...

For over 52 years, educator Jane Elliott has been talking about the problem of racism in America. Ever since the morning after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and ...

Running for city council is basically like applying for a job, only the interview process involves getting your photo printed in nasty attack mailers and the hiring decision is a popularity contest.

Hundreds of trans activists and their allies gathered in Seattle last Saturday night to protest a much-anticipated discussion at the Seattle Public Library. The event, called “Fighting the New ...

Fremont Brewing co-owner Sara Nelson considers herself a "progressive small business owner," and she thinks Seattle is missing that small-business voice on its city council. If elected, her main ...

If you doomscroll for long enough through last night’s footage of the police riots in Portland, your eye may settle on a particularly compelling dispatch from outside of an ICE facility. “As ...