Evans, a former assistant lawyer for the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the city of Seattle, seeks, according to her campaign website, to expand pre-filing diversion programs, establish an anti-hate and ...

It's likely to be among the most heated and expensive in Seattle behind only the mayor’s race. The two also have one of the ...

Salem city councilors can talk to media and attend neighborhood meetings, according to new guidelines from the Oregon ...

Lawmakers on Maui have passed legislation aimed at eliminating a large percentage of the Hawaiian island’s vacation rentals. The bill aims to address a housing shortage exacerbated by the Lahaina ...

Maui County Council Member Keani Rawlins-Fernandez (right) pled with Housing and Land Use Committee Chair Tasha Kama to extend the panel’s deliberations on Bill 9 yesterday. However, Kama ...

Bill Spelman, a prominent voice in public policy as both a former Austin City Council member and longtime UT-Austin professor, died July 17 after an illness. He was 68.

The commission should have 15 members, but for the last year and a half, it’s had five. Two City Council members stoked ire by missing a meeting to fix that.

New rules from Seattle’s Mayor aim to protect low-income and elderly homeowners from predatory practices, mandating transparency in homebuying to prevent unfair low offers.

Friedson and councilmember Natali Fani-Gonzalez introduced the bill in February. “To say that we want more housing and to say we want more affordable housing, yet let’s not do anything, it’s ...

A bill proposing the creation of an independent Commission on Ethics and Conflicts of Interest was held in committee on Tuesday after key testifiers admitted they were unfamiliar with its ...