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  What's in Seattle's budget? Mapping the $8.9 billion spending plan Mayor Harrell leaves for Wilson

  The Seattle City Council last week approved Mayor Bruce Harrell’s $9 billion dollar budget for 2026. That means when Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson takes office in January, she and the new City Council will inherit those funding choices. Here’s what to know in the meantime — explained in pizza terms.

  • Teo Popescu
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  Seattle spent millions on hotel rooms to shelter unhoused people. Then it stopped filling them

  Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

  • Teo Popescu
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  How Seattle's most competitive mayoral candidates would address the city's top issues

  Soundside host Libby Denkmann spoke with the four most competitive candidates running for mayor of Seattle about the top issues facing the city and what they’d do to address them.

  • Hans Anderson
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  Heading outdoors? WA recreation prices go up as state tries to fix budget deficit

  The 38% price hike is the first increase since 2011.

  • Ruby de Luna
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  'The $100 million question.' How will Seattle Public Schools close its lingering deficit?

  The Seattle School Board is looking again at how to handle an anticipated $104 million budget shortfall.

  • Ann Dornfeld
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  With clock ticking, WA lawmakers race to cover $16 billion shortfall in budget plan

  With a potential $16 billion shortfall looming, legislators in Olympia are scrambling to find budget fixes with less than two weeks left in the session. Jerry Cornfield writes for The Washington State Standard. He spoke to KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about his new article, which outlines the latest options being considered.

  • Kim Malcolm
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  Taxes, furloughs, funding for cops: WA Democrats tee up budget negotiations

  Democrats, who control the Legislature, must solve a historic budget crisis this spring. But can they agree on how to do it?

  • Jeanie Lindsay
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  Gov-elect Ferguson 'skeptical' of wealth tax, pitches broad cuts to address WA budget gap

  Washington's incoming governor is breaking from some key members of his party on how to tackle the state's looming budget shortfall, as he unveils his plans on future state spending.

  • Jeanie Lindsay
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  Washington voters agree — tax the wealthy

  The election dust has settled in Washington state and for the first time in over a decade residents have overwhelmingly voted in favor of taxing the wealthy.

  • Teo Popescu
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  ‘A perfect storm’: Inside Washington’s massive budget gap

  Washington lawmakers are preparing to tackle a multibillion dollar gap in the state budget over the next several years.

  • Jeanie Lindsay

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