Environment
Despite Biden's promises, logging poses major threat to PNW forests
The president celebrated Earth Day in Seattle's Seward Park by pledging to protect old growth trees. But his measures aren't enough.
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News
Seattle community court referrals are surging. Here's why
The softer approach to prosecution has seen double the referrals since tough-on-crime city attorney Ann Davison took office in January.
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New rules put Puget Sound's urban trees in private hands
Because the majority of the region's trees are in residential neighborhoods, responsibility for maintaining canopy coverage is shifting to homeowners.
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‘A lack of care’: Monkeypox response echoes homophobia of past crises
Burdened with slow federal action, King County health officials are scrambling to get a limited supply of vaccines to the estimated 40,000 people who are at risk.
Equity
Central WA farmworkers weigh in on heat protection efforts
State leaders and labor advocates are pushing for regulations to protect workers who feel torn between working in dangerous heat and losing wages.