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Austin built a lot of housing fast. Rents fell. What could Seattle learn?

While rents kept rising in many big cities, including Seattle, rents in Austin, Texas, have been on the decline for the last three years. That raises a simple question: Why is Austin an outlier? And is there anything Seattle could copy?
- Joshua McNichols
Can a watershed have legal rights? The Snohomish River debate deepens

The tide is turning in a Snohomish County legal battle over whether a river and its watershed have legal rights that can be defended in court.
- KUOW Staff
Seattle's new $297-million high school was built on a peat bog. Then the foundation started settling

Months before the long-awaited, brand new Rainier Beach High School opened to students last April, engineers on the $297-million project reported problems with the building’s foundation to the city, records show.
- Ann Dornfeld
Washington's new work zone speed cameras cite 7K drivers in first 90 days

Thousands of Washington motorists have been caught speeding through highway work zones by new cameras the state deployed this year.
- Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard
Housing, trees, and parking: In Seattle, you can pick two

We can’t have all three. Not in equal measure. Right now, trees are slowly losing. But with sufficient incentives in place, that could change.
- Joshua McNichols
Builders say tariffs will drive Seattle-area home costs higher

Builders expect higher prices to trickle down to builders within a few weeks, and to home buyers and renters after that, when fewer homes drive competition for those home
- Joshua McNichols
Robots are helping build new apartments in Seattle

The construction industry - has been having a hard time finding enough workers lately. The worker shortage can delay projects and push the cost of housing higher. That situation has led one contractor to try something new, at a project in Seattle. They’re bringing in a robot.
- Joshua McNichols
Construction boom helps fuel job gains in March

U.S. employers added 303,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate dipped to 3.8%. Construction companies added 39,000 jobs, despite high interest rates.
- Scott Horsley
Bones and pipes are breaking across the Northwest with the cold, and now the warm up

Northwest ERs seeing lots of injuries, contractors seeing lots of frozen or burst pipes
- Anna King
Big city mosquitoes are a big problem — and now a big target

Africa's cities have become home to an invasive, malaria-carrying mosquito. New research suggests vulnerabilities that could be exploited to take on the disease-bearing insects.
- Ari Daniel

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