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Environment

How do the Los Angeles fires compare to the Great Seattle Fire? We mapped it out

The Palisades and Eaton fires have burned over 37,830 acres as of Tuesday afternoon. That’s a burn area 300 times larger than that of the Great Seattle Fire of 1889.
Teo Popescu
Arts & Life

Seattle's historic Georgetown Steam Plant still burns for the arts

The Georgetown Steam Plant used to generate power for Seattle's trolley system. Now, it's serving as a source of inspiration for arts organizations.
Joshua McNichols
Music

Long-time Seattle DJ reflects on 40 years of 'Purple Rain' and his friendship with Prince

How does one collect 100,000 albums? If you're Kevin Cole, you spend 50 years in radio, and a lot of your childhood in the local record store.
Angela King
Environment

Why did WSU just name its newest crop 'Bush wheat'?
Anna King
Business

Celebrating Tulsa's 'Black Wall Street' by rebuilding Seattle's Central District

Here's something you may not know about the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, K. Wyking Garrett told a crowd of Black business owners this week. Three years after it was destroyed, people there built it back, stronger than before. And it could happen in Seattle’s Central District, too, he says.
Joshua McNichols
Arts & Life

How did Rainier beer become legendary? Three Tacoma filmmakers tell the tale

"Rainier: A Beer Odyssey" tells the story of Rainier's iconic advertising campaign and the way the brand was shaped by Seattle of the 70s and shaped the city in return. The documentary premiers at SIFF May 13.
Clare McGrane
Race & Identity

Blooming in Seattle: Mayor Harrell’s family history of change, challenge, and flowers

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s favorite flower is a red classic rose. “As my mother used to tell me, if you are going on a date you can’t go wrong. And of course, that’s my mother’s name,” Harrell said.
Natalie Akane Newcomb
Politics

How the 1976 election ushered in the American partisan divide

To understand the 2024 presidential race, you need go back to 1976 — at least that’s the case Ben Bradford makes in Landslide, a new podcast from WFAE, NPR, and Nuanced Tales.
Libby Denkmann

Hans Anderson
The quest to find and photograph a historic Seattle mansion that may soon face demolition

Writer and amateur historian Jean Sherrard tells us about a Denny family mansion that may be on the chopping block
Rob Wood

John O'Brien
Race & Identity

'The neighbors we needed during World War II.' Japanese Americans protest Seattle area deportation flights

Japanese American community members and immigration advocates gathered at Boeing Field Tuesday to call for an end to deportation flights out of King County International Airport.
Natalie Akane Newcomb

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