Driving the news: The number of people living in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area increased by 66,666 from 2023 to 2024 — a gain of about 1.6% — the Census Bureau said last week.

Seattle is a large metropolitan area, so abide by all the precautions you would normally follow in a major city. The University District and Broadway can attract the homeless, and those areas are ...

The Seattle metro area has 17 "million dollar cities" as of February 2024 (it had 15 in February 2023). Statewide, Washington has 18 cities with a million-dollar stamp (it had 16 a year ago). See ...