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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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

[asset-pullquotes[{"quote": "Take pitchforks, pool cues, shovels - whatever you can - go down there and repel that ferry.", "style": "wide"}]]In 1948, at…

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…

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…

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…

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…