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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.”

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

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

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

The latest effort, rooted in so-called 'rural values,' seeks to supersize the state of Idaho with parts of Oregon and California.

Dr. T.D. Tuttle was Washington's Health Commissioner during the 1918 flu. He wasn't always popular — even when he was right.

The iconic symbol of the future now stands in solidarity with our isolation.

During the 1918 flu, bad actors ripped off renters, exploited dead sailors and drank illegal whiskey.