Seattle Mayor Ed Murray

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle City Council members have advanced a proposal for a soda tax but have changed the plan to exclude diet pop. The Seattle Times reports Seattle Mayor Ed Murray sent the measure to the council in April, calling for a tax of 1...

SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray were among the speakers at a large rally in downtown Seattle that drew more than a thousand people protesting President Donald Trump's action barring people from certain Muslim nations from the United States...

SEATTLE (AP) Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has hired someone to manage what he calls the growing scope of work around the issue of homelessness in the city. Murray said in a news release Tuesday that George Scarola will be the city's first cabinet-level director of homelessness, charged with leading and overseeing efforts across multiple departments...

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says Seattle police has increased security at Seattle Pride events this month following the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida. Murray said in a statement Sunday he is grieving the loss of so many members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community in Orlando...