Black Diamond

Bill Radke speaks with KUOW reporters Joshua McNichols and Carolyn Adolph about what they learned from their time reporting in Black Diamond for KUOW's…

If this ghost town had a mayor, it would be Don Mason.Back in the 1970s, Mason was hiking when he stumbled on evidence of a town called Franklin. He’d…

Bill Radke speaks with Kristen Bryant, Dennis Box and Johna Thomson about the controversy surrounding a planned development in Black Diamond.Bryant is a…

Black Diamond is a small city on the verge of big growth.It recently came through a budget crisis that threatened to shut down the city – including its…

A woman, a new resident of the huge Snoqualmie Ridge development, had called in for pizza.It was the first pie order for one of those new shiny houses,…

Our region was built with immigrant labor. It’s part of the story of growth and development here. There are many ways to tell that history. How we tell it…

As we all know from living here, our region’s roads haven’t been keeping up with population growth. If they were, we wouldn’t be sitting in so much…

Bill Radke speaks with Black Diamond resident Johna Thomson about a planned development that will quadruple the size of her town and why she thinks Black…

Our region’s rapid growth is straining our lakes, especially little lakes on the fringes of urban areas. When growth approaches, the communities around…