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The push comes amid a growing trend of labor organizing in U.S. museums and a flurry of high-profile union votes locally and nationally.

The Legislature failed to allocate funding for the curriculum, placing the financial burden on Washington tribes and school districts.

Respondents named homelessness most often as the criterion used to evaluate the new mayor.

Zookeepers say giving animals more say in how their medical care happens improves their health and well-being.

In Seattle's historic Asian neighborhood, some say Sound Transit's $54 billion light rail expansion echoes harms of past infrastructure projects.

A new Crosscut/Elway poll of likely voters finds wide gaps in perceptions of crime based on age, income and homeownership status.

A new documentary spotlights efforts of the Yup’ik people of Alaska to relocate from their ancestral lands because of sea level rise.

With more stations opening, students can live farther from campus in more affordable housing. The trade-off? Longer commutes.

At issue is whether Bremerton School District or a football coach violated the First Amendment.

The Crosscut Festival launches May 3 with virtual & in-person sessions.

The Small Business Administration doled out $918 million statewide, but the largest awards went to Puget Sound eateries.

For some families, the pandemic provided an opportunity to better understand how their children learn.

After Russia invaded her native Ukraine, Seattle artist Darya Husak created an art show dedicated to ‘home.’

A global study into urbanization's impact on white clover shows that the plant is evolving to survive alongside us in Puget Sound.

They might look like 'a combination between a kitten and a puppy' but the charismatic creatures play a big role in the PNW.

The state Criminal Justice Training Commission made the decision Wednesday, resolving a dispute about how far back the new law could reach.

When Dr. Lyda Harris looks at the water, she can see something that’s invisible to most, microplastics. These pieces of plastic, less than five millimeters and more than one micron in size, are everywhere. As a microplastics fellow at the Seattle Aquarium, she gets an up-close look at how these tiny particles affect the waters around us and the creatures that inhabit them.

Meet the students pushing for more equity in public schools.

After clashes over Skagit River dams and fish passages, the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe is legally pushing for the fish's 'right to flourish.'

Politics were not a factor in refusing federal money, officials from the cities say.