history

July 4th is a special date of significance to the history of Washington state, too!

You haven't heard the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s explained like this! 😂

What a throwback!

This mysterious and historical home is for sale for half a million dollars!

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

This list is sure to create some controversy as I'm sure I'll accidentally leave a well designed building off the list. My apologies to anyone who feels slighted but these are the coolest buildings in Yakima from my perspective as someone who has lived here for a year and a half...

Over the weekend I stopped by an estate sale on Snowmountain Road and saw the coolest thing in the basement: a miniature railroad patterned after the Moxee Toppenish and Western. As you can see from the photos below, the former owner must have had well over 100 different cars, railroad crossings, stations, hundreds of feet of track, bridges, a representation of Toppenish from more than a century a

The debate over whether the Confederate flag should be removed from official offices in the South has become a hot button issue in the wake of the the mass church shooting in South Carolina.

Lately the story of UC Irvine's discussion of banning the U.S. flag on campus has been in the news. The short-lived rule has been vetoed at the school, but meantime, let's take a lighter look at countries' flags and how well you know them...

Washington became the 42nd state in the union on this day in 1889.