Mossback's Northwest

The Pacific Coast’s only indigenous oyster, the Olympia, was eaten into near-extinction. It could be making a comeback.

The deadly Centralia Tragedy saw conflict between the Wobblies and the American Legion — and left behind a debated legacy.

A rare photograph shows President Kennedy's 1961 detour under an unfinished Space Needle. The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, also called the Century 21 Exposition, was about the future, but it was rooted in the politics of the present. Organizers wanted nothing more than a visit by President John F. Kennedy. It didn’t happen. Or did it?

Sir Thomas Beecham came to conduct the Seattle Symphony and uttered a sentence that has never been forgotten.

The UW "Boys in the Boat' crew is famous for beating the Nazis in the 1936 Olympics, but there was another race that pitted the vaunted Husky team against Native Swinomish paddlers. This is the story of how a race between rival crews brought Native and UW paddlers closer to the sport — and each other.

A racist Oregon Territory law drove George Bush, a free Black man, across the Columbia River to settle near what is now Olympia. Bush was Puget Sound's first settler and paved the way for what would become Washington state. Artifacts uncovered in Bush Prairie, George Bush's 1845 homestead, give clues about the family life of Puget Sound's first settler.

Seattle's 'Ramps to Nowhere,' built 50 years ago to feed an imagined expressway, are finally coming down.

Prospectors headed to the 1897 gold rush in Alaska had to bring tons of provisions with them. Some imagined the possibility of airships carrying freight and gold back and forth to the Klondike, and suddenly, airships were being "seen" all over the world.

Locals have been infamous for icing out newcomers since World War I.

Flotsam from Asia reaches Washington's beaches all the time. But sometimes other stuff comes ashore, like people.

The Seahawks and Mariners called it home for 24 years, but now much of the city doesn’t even know the stadium existed. December 18, 2020

Harry Tracy terrorized the state from one end to the other, even as newspaper readers couldn't get enough of his criminal adventures.