Five years after George Floyd, the mayor and his allies on city council claim credit for vast improvements, but critics keep ...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has ramped up sweeps of homeless encampments in his first term. In his reelection bid, he faces a ...

Police veteran Michelle Woodfork won the sheriff’s race, at a time when federal consent decrees barring ICE collaboration and ...

Guy Oron is a Seattle-based writer. He is a staff reporter for Real Change.

With kids beaming on rides, adults losing money on carnival games, and the unmistakable smells of funnel cake and grilled meat swirling for blocks around, the annual street fair in the Lancaster ...

Camille Squires is a story editor at Bolts with experience covering city-level government and politics. Her reporting has appeared in Quartz, NewYork Magazine, City Monitor, and Mother Jones.

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Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else ...

This story is a collaboration between Bolts and Injustice Watch, a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization examining issues of equity and justice in the court system. Renwick Wells and Mickey ...

Just before her 25th birthday, Susan Bustamante confided in her brother about the violent abuse she had suffered from her husband. She says her brother had protected her from her abusive father in the ...

November is fast approaching, and while a handful of races are hogging the spotlight, there are thousands of local races all around the country that will shape public policy—from deciding who will ...