The Resident Historian Podcast

Those see-through uniforms of the Mariners’ road opponent in this weekend’s three-game series in Wisconsin may say “Milwaukee Brewers,” but everybody knows that the team is really the Seattle Pilots in disguise.

Neighbors in Parkland, south of Tacoma, have been working for two years to save the historic Parkland School. They now facing a significant fundraising deadline at the end of April and are seeking financial support.

Boeing slogan – if it’s not history, it’s a mystery

On Tuesday night, the  Everett Historical Commission  once again weighed a request from the City of Everett for permission to demolish the historic gazebo at Clark Park.

As KIRO Newsradio first reported two weeks ago, the popular local history Facebook group Seattle Vintage – which has more than 150,000 followers – was hacked and taken over by malicious actors. If that wasn’t bad enough, there was no remedy available. There was (and still is) no way to report the hacking to Facebook via Facebook, and no way to get immediate help from Washing...

A grassroots group working to save the historic Ryan House on Main Street in Sumner scored a legal victory yesterday when a Pierce County Superior Court judge ruled in their favor in a dispute with the city.

Pacific Science Center making changes to historic pool

All Over the Map: When vinyl records were used to promote Wash. and Orgeon

This year marks a half-century since Spokane hosted its very own world’s fair – the event known as Expo '74. The 50th anniversary will be celebrated in Spokane with a series of events throughout the spring and summer.

The spots along the shores of the Puget Sound, for which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Weather Radio often gives windspeed reports, have their own history and charm.

The Everett Historical Commission met Tuesday night to discuss the city’s formal request for permission to tear it down, and then offered up a strategic compromise instead.

Feliks Banel joins SMN to discuss Mayor Cassie Franklin of Everett's decision to demolish the historic 1921 gazebo at Clark Park. Not everyone is happy about the decision, or about the opaque manner in which it was made.

This is a refresher on how our state came to be called “Washington,” as well as a deeper dive into the actual meaning of that most famous of American surnames.

Good news and bad news for two Washington Drive-In movie theaters

A Seattle family recently re-discovered a collection of photo albums that belonged to a great uncle who was a Navy flyer at Sand Point nearly 100 years ago.

The origins of 'The Wheedle on the Needle' from resident historian Feliks Banel

Saving the Ryan House in Sumner 

Jim Rose, president and general manager of  KING Broadcasting , a division of  TEGNA,  which oversees Northwest Cable News (NWCN), says that news consumption habits have changed everywhere since NWCN went on the air in 1995, and especially around Portland and Seattle.

At 5 p.m. on February 4, 1993, KIRO-TV, which was then owned by Bonneville (current owner of KIRO Radio), went live with a concept they called “news out of the box.”

A look into the history in this week’s edition of All Over The Map reveals that Ilwaco isn’t the original name of the town, and that this isn't the first time its residents have faced adversity after a big fire.

UW crew boat "The Conny" comes back to life 

Northwest historians agree about some basic facts about the photo, which was taken in 1865. How the photo came to be is sometimes a little more murky.

An iconic and mysterious roadside cottage in Kirkland has captured the imagination of passersby for decades. 

A partnership between the  National Park Service  and  Amtrak  has placed volunteer interpretive guides on some routes for many years

One likely reason that the pilot never became a regular series was because the pilot got really bad reviews from multiple TV critics, some of whom savaged its overall cheesiness or singled out its bad dialog. The TV critic for the Buffalo Evening News wrote that "Wheeler & Murdoch" was "[c]rammed with outdoor action and nightclub scenes as phony as a $3 bill" and the show "noisy, nasty and ove...