Mossback's Northwest

The story of the famed American writer's only visit to the Pacific Northwest.

This ancient shipwreck may have caused the first-ever contact between Europeans and Northwest indigenous peoples.

'Lesser Seattle' wanted to keep the city free of pretension — and Californians.

Today we fight it, but generations ago the city thrived on it.

Allen was a media favorite in his day.

Since the mid-19th century, Seattle and Tacoma have been business rivals. A focus of their fight: what to call Mt. Rainier. Tacomans wanted it renamed Tacoma or Tahoma, said to be the native names for the volcano, but the mountain’s “discoverer” named it for a friend in the Royal Navy. Rainier survives, but discussion has been rekindled after Alaska’s Mt. McKinley was renamed “Denali.”

A century ago, Seattle's hockey team was the best in the world. But it was no match for the Spanish flu, or plans for a downtown parking garage.

A closer look at three famous hoaxes that shook up the region.

He also founded the city’s first daily newspaper.

On this episode of Mossback's Northwest, a look at what happened on June 24, 1947 when a pilot flew near Mt. Rainier.

Knute Berger looks back at March 12, 1974 when a young student left her Evergreen State College apartment and never returned.

On this episode of Mossback's Northwest, Knute Berger looks back at what Puget Sound learned from the Tacoma Narrows bridge disaster.

During a hot summer, we worry about wildfires in our forests and rangelands. But in 1889, the year that Washington became a state, three of Washington's cities burned within weeks of each other.

30 years in the making, plus $10.4M in marketing, the apple still isn’t for everyone — and that’s okay.