The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

$1.6 billion monorail initiative is on a collision course.

The world's largest network is 10 times larger that Philadelphia's proposed city-wide network and covers 1,500 square miles of wheat fields.

Can SODA, or 'Stay Out of Drug Areas' zones reduce drug deals and improve neighborhoods?

Philadelphia is considering an ambitious project to turn all 135 square miles of the city, including poor neighborhoods without high-speed Internet access into the world's largest wireless hot spot.

The drab construction material has a bright future, literally. An exhibit in Washington highlights the next wave in walls: translucent concrete.

The 1967 group "Choose an Effective City Council" (CHECC) reshaped Seattle city politics just in time to reshape its physical growth as well.

As Seattle embarks on four HOPE VI projects, the program's philosophy remains questionable and its future uncertain.

Global warming is interfering with oil exploration efforts in Alaska.

Dwight Pelz, a member of the King County Council, explains the confusion over what it means in Seattle to be an urban environmentalist.

For Seattle and the Puget Sound region, reducing congestion is the greatest long-term challenge.

Washington lawmakers should streamline state water laws to protect the environment and meet the needs of growing communities

Seattle's Landmarks Preservation Board has declared the Seattle Center monorail historic, complicating plans for a new line.

Seattle's Monorail Tax will show just how honest the city is says Bill Radke.

How Seattle's park system was created

Seattle, considered by some to have one of the best-preserved Olmsted park systems celebrates the legendary landscape architect.

Republicans joined Democrats in the U.S. Senate to quash the Bush administration's plans to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Anti-sprawl efforts in King County, WA, use an innovative financial model

Building more freeways only promotes sprawl and worsens traffic. Here's why investing in public transportation makes sense...

Seattle needs to redirect transportation dollars to develop mass transit.

Though it still faces challenges, the revival of downtown Seattle is succeeding.