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The Emerald City has played many film roles, from gritty city to rom-com backdrop. Knute Berger reviews our cinematic history.

The remains of felled trees could be a nuisance — or a dream home.

During the timber boom, opportunists turned the remains of old-growth trees into homes and postcard spectacles.

Rebel flags once flew over Fifth Avenue — and it wasn't just about the 'Gone With the Wind' premiere.

Decades after the Civil War, nostalgia for the 'Lost Cause' took hold in the Northwest. Knute Berger explains how.

People flocked to see a young orca lost in a river near Portland. Then she was killed, pickled and left in a tank on a mountainside.

Washington is still impacted by the 1933 decision, which brought the West from the frontier period into a new, modern century.

From cheap power to rugged hiking trails, Franklin D. Roosevelt's government transformed the region.

State lawmakers are considering an extension of the meal program, lowering the threshold for schools to offer free school meals to all students.

Citing shrinking enrollment, the school district may close some elementaries — raising questions about who will bear the brunt of potential cuts.