As the vibrant colors of fall fade and winter approaches, Seattle’s trees and shrubs enter a period of rest. Dormant pruning, trimming trees and shrubs during the period when they are not actively ...

Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. SEATTLE — Across the U.S., cities are struggling ...

Seattle is currently mapping how it will grow over the next 20 years. Mayor Bruce Harrell wants to double the city’s housing capacity, with the hope of bringing down costs. But as residential ...

It’s no secret that real estate in Seattle is both scarce and expensive. Residential developers are buying land in every nook and cranny of the city, often cramming multiple town houses onto small ...

SEATTLE — There’s a growing new fight to save two trees in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood. The trees, an evergreen and a deciduous tree, are on what once was the backyard of a house on Hiram Place ...

A towering giant sequoia tree in Seattle’s Green Lake neighborhood—that could have survived for over a century—may now be removed by the city. The massive tree, believed by activists to be the largest ...

SEATTLE — A push by activists to save a large Douglas fir from being cut down in Seattle may have convinced a developer to spare the tree and redesign plans to build housing around it. The Douglas fir ...