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 ...

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 — 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 ...

athy and Dan Robinson’s excitement about their upcoming kitchen renovation turned to puzzlement when Seattle building officials required them to count and measure each tree in their yard and submit a ...

Cities around Seattle are hemmed in by mountains and sea to the east and west, and protected farms and forests to the north and south. Inside that urban growth boundary, developers turn nooks and ...

Seattle, along with other cities, is struggling to balance the need for more housing with the preservation and growth of trees that help address... In Seattle, preserving trees while increasing ...