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Howard Lake, north of Stehekin in Washington's North Cascades.

Call It Howard Lake: Park Service Reverses Stand On Racist Name

A lake in the North Cascades should be renamed Howard Lake after a black prospector, the National Park Service said Thursday afternoon in a reversal of…

Researchers See Limited Environmental Impact From Increased Puget Sound Shellfish Farming

Abdirahman Shire in his dormitory room. Room and board are free or cost less than $15 a day for seafood processing workers (depending on their contract and from plant to plant).

Following The Money Trail To Alaska's 'Ballard North'

A few years after Abdirahman Shire moved to the U.S., he found work at a Tyson Foods chicken factory in Kentucky.That’s when he got a call from a friend,…

Salahaldin Adam, outside the Trident North plant in Cordova. Adam is showing the swelling on his right hand, which he hurt after just a few weeks on the job.

High Risk Awaits Immigrants In Alaska’s 'Ballard North'

In Ballard, a human resources manager for Trident Seafoods talks to a room of people hoping to be seafood processors – warning them of the dangers of the…

Silme Domingo, left, and Gene Viernes, right, were murdered at a union hall in Seattle. It took a determined group of people to expose an international conspiracy behind the murders.

A Seattle Murder Mystery Turned International Conspiracy

On Monday, June 1, 1981, Seattle’s KIRO TV reported a shooting in Pioneer Square.KIRO: “The shots were fired right around a quarter of 5 this evening,…

LA Congressman Loses Bet, Sings 'Meet the Mets'

Rapping Less And Making GIFs More: The Week In 'Hotline Bling'

Montana's Pro-Coal Crow Nation Stands Apart From Northwest Tribes

Guns line the walls of the firearms reference collection at the Washington Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Meet The Guy Trying To Stop The Next Mass Shooting

Jeannie Yandel sits down with security professional Scott McArthur to discuss the rise of threat assessment teams across the county that work to intervene…

The Case For Loving Northwest Rain

David Hyde talks to Knute Berger, writer and historian for Crosscut, about how and why rain is such an important part of a Northwesterner's identity.

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