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Ten years after his death, the Seattle painter is having a moment. Reporter Margo Vansynghel discusses the increased interest in his work.

From waning interest in pandemic precautions to fights over free speech, there are lessons for the new year in our region’s past.

You can complain about the rain, the damp, the squish, but water shapes PNW history and culture — and it makes for some good stories, too.

Before there was Ernestine Anderson, Ray Charles and Quincy Jones, there was Frank Waldron.

Remembering trumpeter, teacher and composer Frank Waldron, a trailblazer in the 1920s Jackson Street music scene.

The Canadian artist created landscapes unlike her contemporaries’, intuiting the web of life beneath the canopy and putting it on canvas.

Meet the painter from British Columbia who evoked the 'liveness' of the Pacific Northwest's forests.

He was invited to talk about his storied past, but the Nez Perce chief had his eye on his people's future.

During a 1903 visit, Chief Joseph's itinerary included an epic UW football game and an impassioned plea for justice.

State legislator John Goldmark became a political target of right-wing extremists in the 1960s. Two decades later, those accusations came to a violent head.