With closed-toe shoes, 4,000 volunteers clean up in One Seattle Day of Service VIEW
On a sunny Saturday in Seattle, 4,000 volunteers clean up the city they unabashedly said they love. The naysaying national media? “They don’t understand.”
Erik Lacitis
How one Seattle woman decided a tree would be her cause VIEW
There are 3-4 million trees and “tree-like” shrubs in Seattle. For a few, saving a single neighborhood tree from the chainsaw becomes a spiritual quest.
Is PowerBait fishing the best way to catch trout? WATCH
On fishing season's opening day, over 30,000 people turned out to cast into Western Washington's lowland lakes.
Russian-speaking families in Seattle area split: That Ukraine video is fake!
The messages between Russian speakers in Seattle and friends and relatives in the old country show two realities about the war in Ukraine. Something’s fake.
How Seattle pulled together plans, people, Elvis and The Bubbleator to put on the 1962 World’s Fair WATCH
It's unlikely Seattle would be able to pull off such a massive civic project again. But in 1962, it was a fantastic show that lasted...
A 6-ounce iPhone would obliterate the 1962 World’s Fair futuristic technology
The 1962 Seattle World's Fair showed off a futuristic, "magical" computer that weighed 1,200 pounds and cost at least $85,000 in 1962 dollars.
Ex-Microsoft VP finds new purpose as long-haul shuttle driver for Ukrainians
Rick Thompson was retired and comfortable on a Seattle houseboat, then he decided to make a big change. Now he’s in Europe in a rented...
On Bainbridge Island, the first place to incarcerate Japanese Americans in 1942, survivors of incarceration still live on
Eighty years ago, Bainbridge Island was the first location for the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans under the Civilian Exclusion Order.
This ‘Mystery Lady’ always had a name, and Fumiko Hayashida had a life far beyond this historic moment
The “Mystery Lady” picture has been called “one of the iconic images of the incarceration of Japanese Americans.” The woman ended up testifying before Congress.
I wish Russians supporting Putin could have met my Russian-born mom VIEW
The stories of people fleeing Ukraine are not new to the family of Seattle Times reporter Erik Lacitis. The history of his kin in Latvia...