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A familiar sight for cross-state I-90 drivers  – and a relic of Northwest railroad history – will soon open to hikers and other non-motorized users of a popular trail.

It was just two days before the presidential inauguration of Franklin Pierce, when lame duck President Millard Fillmore signed the legislation creating the Washington Territory.

The families of two lost Naval aviators have received notice from the U.S. Navy about the likely whereabouts of the men and their SNJ-5 trainer aircraft.

The list of various Washington towns, cities, and counties inspired by someone's first name is a long one. Here's the definitive rundown.

Is it possible for knowledge to “inoculate” society to make citizens better informed, and less likely to radicalize and become insurrectionists?

The effort to prevent the priceless federal records stored at Seattle's National Archives from leaving the Washington has progressed on two distinct tracks.

Though nobody remembers it now, the late, great Stone Avenue Bridge carried wagons, cars, pedestrians, and streetcars across Lake Union for years.

Let's take a look into the history of the Seattle Kraken's nearest potential NHL rival, with the help of experts and non-experts from north of the border.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that his office is filing suit against the federal government to stop the sale of the Seattle branch of the National Archives and Record Administration.

The general public will finally get a chance to formally weigh in on the controversial decision to close the Seattle facility of the National Archives.

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” has been a fixture on national TV since 1964. But the animated narrator has a direct connection to the Northwest.

Legendary and beloved local TV performer Bob Newman, who played Gertrude and Boris S. Wart and other iconic characters alongside J.P. Patches on KIRO TV for decades, passed away earlier this week.

Anyone who’s driven on I-5 between Everett and Marysville around the holidays in the past 56 years or so has probably seen the Buse Timber holiday signs.

It was 200 years ago when Congressman John Floyd became the first elected official to encourage the US to annex what’s now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

The fourth installment of County Countdown, a 13-part series about the origins of county names in Washington, features Ferry, Franklin, and Garfield.