The Seattle Times

Garrett Hardin wrote the seminal essay "The Tragedy of the Commons".

Clallam County, Washington, with a population 65,000, will become the first county in the nation to elect its planning director. Could this start a trend?

Unless US Rep. Ernest Istook changes his oppinion, the FTA will not sign a $500 million agreement with Sound Transit.

Have Seattle's plans for an expensive light-rail line become the laughing stock of the transportation world, as Randal O'Toole charges?

A five-volume draft environmental-impact statement discloses the visual, noise, land-use and transportation effects of the planned Seattle Monorail Project

Seattle's Monorail did not Fifth Avenue - it is alive and flourishing?

Trouble ahead for the initiative that would have consolidated 3 regional transportation agencies.

First realistic portrayals of how the monorail will look like in downtown Seattle.

Many transit advocates favor BRT over fixed rail line. It's just as convenient, and lower cost. Critics say a bus is still a bus.

An eclectic father-son team have built a thin electric car in Spokane, Washington. What is most surprising is its top speed (130 MPH) and its weight (about the same as a Camry).

The light rail clears its first hurdle by getting some funding in Congress.

The Sound Transit light-rail proposal is back on track.

Parts of the Seattle monorail may need to rise as high as six stories.

More roadblocks to getting the light rail built in Western Washington.

As another summer vacation season begins this Memorial Day weekend, several former park-service executives voice fears that the entire national-park system is menaced by a hidden crisis.

The Seattle suburb of Kenmore adopts a plan to reshape the city's downtown and also adopts new zoning to encourage denser mixed-use development.

Mayor Nickels hopes $570 million in infrastructure in South Lake Union will create a biotech hotbed.

A collaboration between store owners and architecture students aims to transform the streetscape of University Avenue.

Seattle's future monorail stations may look more like art than transit infrastructure.

Living in a downtown condominium is an environmentally-friendly choice.