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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…
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The yard in front of the CARQUEST Auto Parts store on this remote Alaskan island is crowded with old cars.Sonny Nguyen, the store’s owner, keeps them…
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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,…
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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,…
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Her eyes focused on the arcade screen, Bridget awaits her moment of transformation.The 9-year-old is playing the video game Ms. Pac-Man, where the title…
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[asset-pullquotes[{"quote": "Take pitchforks, pool cues, shovels - whatever you can - go down there and repel that ferry.", "style": "wide"}]]In 1948, at…
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Cherie LaMaine is a ferry walker on the Edmonds-Kingston line: She makes laps around the deck as the boat glides from port to port.The habit started with…
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Hundreds of Indians climbed the cliffs at night and waited under the edge of the bluff for the first morning light.It was the 1960s, and they had come…
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Back in the 1850s, the United States negotiated a series of five treaties with the coastal tribes living in what is now Washington state. The treaties…
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The Salish Sea is a network of waterways that run from northwestern Washington to British Columbia. The waters of the Salish Sea are home to some of the…