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Washington’s top doctors tried to combat opponents of government regulation with arguments that resonate 100 years later.

Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell has deepened the public memory of the Civil Rights Era. His reporting offers important lessons for today.

In 1920, the city’s commissioner of public health called Seattle “a hot bed for anti-vaccination, Christian Science, and various anti-medical cults.”

Seattle's 'Ramps to Nowhere,' built 50 years ago to feed an imagined expressway, are finally coming down.

Lessons on catastrophe from new books about the atomic bomb and the eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Escaping a racist Oregon law, a man named George Bush became one of Washington’s most important homesteaders.

Here and beyond, reports of deaths by suicide indicate the mental health toll likely caused by the influenza pandemic.

With trash transfer stations closed during COVID-19, state leaders tell locals to stop leaving waste by roadsides.

How a race between rival crews brought Native and UW paddlers closer to the sport — and each other.

Transplants vs. locals is the cultural permafrost always under Seattle's feet.