Megan and the Columbia On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart on its 28th mission while re-entering the atmosphere. The seven-member crew are killed... KUOW Staff
Gerry and Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, threatening to further strain civil unrest in America. Arwen Nicks
I was a young gay man in the 80s who got by on survival sex The Seattle Times dropped a bombshell on the local political scene last week, publishing a lengthy account of interviews with three separate men who... Geov Parrish
Rent control is illegal in Seattle. Here’s why Why was rent control originally outlawed in Washington state? Amy Rolph
This ghost town used to be home to 1,000. Now it's just ruins If this ghost town had a mayor, it would be Don Mason. Back in the 1970s, Mason was hiking when he stumbled on evidence of a town called Franklin. He’d... Posey Gruener
A onetime Vietnamese refugee on the complex road to American greatness Before Viet Thanh Nguyen became the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel “The Sympathizers,” he was a 4-year-old boy uprooted from war-torn... John O'Brien
Why do some locals say ‘Wershington’ instead of ‘Washington?’ We’re a quirky bunch out here in Washington state. We eat cream cheese on our hotdogs. The western part of the state freaks out when it snows. We don’t... Amy Rolph
Racism is baked into the history of this small Seattle suburb Our region was built with immigrant labor. It’s part of the story of growth and development here. There are many ways to tell that history. How we tell... Joshua McNichols
Hate crimes in the Northwest: We've been here before Recent hate crimes prompted President Donald Trump to condemn such acts in a speech to Congress. Some of those incidents have been in the Pacific... Katherine Banwell
John Lewis on a life committed to change, and the change still to come In 1963, John Lewis was 23 years old when he addressed a crowd of over 200,000 people at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Lewis was already... John O'Brien
