Feliks Banel

Before Seattle's famous Mercer Girls came to provide brides for lonely settlers, Victoria BC had its own boatload of women.

Elliott Bay, Eagle Harbor, and many other ports-of-call around Puget Sound all have something in common besides the seagulls, friendly boaters, and bracing sea air: US Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes.

It appears as though a pair of historic gargoyles that used to adorn the old Civic Arena are well and truly gone. But how did this happen in the first place?

What happened when beloved Radio KING host Frosty Fowler was broadcasting from atop the Space Needle during Seattle's 1965 earthquake? KIRO Radio's Feliks Banel weighs in.

Neah Bay, as it was named, has a history spanning the Makah Tribe, Spanish interests, and British fur traders. This is how it got its name.

Just when you thought it was safe to be a piece of historic ornamental concrete, word came down from Seattle Center that 1928 Civic Arena gargoyles, rescued two years ago while the building was being demolished have inadvertently been taken to the dump.

How did Washington's Columbia first get its name? That story begins with the search for a river that many explorers didn't believe existed at all.

With an NHL franchise set to begin playing at what’s now KeyArena in 2021, there’s been a lot of looking back at the storied 1917 Stanley Cup victory of the Seattle Metropolitans hockey team.

How does the "Seattle Schooners" sound? Or the "Seattle Seatacs?" They were among a range of proposed names for the baseball team that would become the Mariners.

Pretty much everybody knows about Fort Casey on Whidbey Island or Fort Worden near Port Townsend. But almost nobody has heard of Fort Whitman on a little island in Washington.