Feliks Banel

A loyal KIRO Radio listener shared photos taken earlier this week that appear to show pieces of the old Bon Marché/Macy’s holiday star stashed on the roof of the downtown Seattle department store.

It’s grand opening weekend for the all-new Burke Museum on the University of Washington campus. But who was the “Burke” behind the name of this august institution?

Almost 125 years to date, King County's first ever state representative disappeared in a shipwreck we still don't fully understand.

This week for "All Over The Map," back by popular demand, it’s time for more mini-song parodies, inspired by the names of Washington towns.

Now that Macy's downtown Seattle location is closing, where is its iconic holiday star? As of now, we're not entirely certain.

KIRO Radio historian Feliks Banel produced a 2007 Seattle Channel video profile of the Seattle man who designed the Macy's holiday star in the 1950s.

The Big Four Inn was once a popular site for Northwest tourists. Today, it's only a charred fireplace. It was once the setting for Seattle political drama.

In spite of the troubles with the 737 MAX, it’s a safe bet that Boeing isn’t done making aviation history at its old Renton plant.

Sunset Highway on Mercer Island is the last remnant of a much older road system. Little is known as to why it still exists and why it keeps the name.

Even with autumn on the horizon and winter not far behind, for the really stormy stuff, you have to go back to the winter of 1861-1862.

A neighborhood near the Vancouver, BC airport is a reminder that Canada, and Seattle’s Boeing Company, entered World War II much earlier than the U.S.

It was built more than a century ago to train seaplane pilots as America entered World War I. Then it was home to the “Boys in the Boat."

Naming wildfires is slightly different in British Columbia than in Washington. The process feels more, for lack of a better term, "Canadian."

The Washington city of Marysville recently found itself, accidentally, in the middle of a controversy. Looking closer, is this town named for a cannibal?

Found in a hidden compartment inside a Seattle home, were decades old membership cards to the Communist Party of Washington State.