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Mayor-elect Bruce Harrell 

Seattle’s mayor-elect is criticizing a City Council plan to cut $10 million from the city’s police budget, saying voters just endorsed his plan to prioritize public safety.

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(AP Photo/Don Ryan, File) 

Political appointees in the Trump administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl

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Bruce Harrell, who ran against Lorena Gonzalez in the race for mayor of Seattle, poses for a photo Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, at his election night gathering in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) 

Harrell will be the city’s first Asian American and second Black mayor

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A year after Portland’s police department underwent significant budget cuts amid demands to defund the police, the mayor announced he is seeking more than $5 million for police investments

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The ban which includes menthol cigarettes and flavored tobacco vape pens, goes into effect in Washington County Jan 1

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The Gordly family home at 4511 N. Williams Ave. 

The Gordly Burch Center for Black Leadership and Civic Engagement will celebrate family’s long history of community contribution

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(Photo/ Susan Fried) 

Activist progressives and more moderate candidates are competing for the chance to address Seattle's problems of homelessness, crime, policing, and racial and economic injustice as voters cast their ballots by Tuesday in the city's elections.

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The package was made possible by better-than-expected revenues from business taxes collected by the city and the county.

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(Photo/ Ketut Subiyanto) 

The number of Oregon children in foster care has fallen nearly 20% since January 2020, the biggest prolonged decline on record.

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Most evictions will still be halted in Seattle, Burien and Kenmore, where local lawmakers have passed their own eviction moratoriums to last through early 2022.

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