Following weeks of consternation from council members and union representatives, Mayor Katie Wilson is changing course on her pick to lead Seattle City Light. Dennis McLerran, whom she’d tapped to be ...

Seattle City Light has proposed an agreement to continue to use hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River to power the city’s electricity for up to the next 50 years. But the full details of the ...

In a reversal from the city’s prior arguments against fish passage, the utility has agreed to spend $1 billion on that ...

For years, Seattle City Light insisted its hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River were not harming salmon.

Despite key city council opposition to his appointment, Dennis McLerran’s tenure as the new interim general manager and CEO ...

Major players involved in a massive proposed agreement with Seattle City Light regarding its dams on the Skagit River say the compromise will benefit Skagit County by boosting salmon populations and ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

A new policy that requires buildings with four or more units to bury their electrical lines is making housing development ...

Dogged Seattle TV news investigators are reporting that the operator of three dams on the Skagit River has agreed to spend nearly $1 billion to install fish passage around the North Cascades ...

Treaty tribes and state and federal agencies have already approved a proposed agreement, which would commit Seattle’s public utility to spending up to $979 million on fish passage and $200 million on ...

REMEMBER “THE EVOLUTION OF LIGHTING,” a set of gleaming Britannia metal-art panels created for Seattle City Light and showcased for 60-plus years in the lobby of its former headquarters at Third ...