On August 14, 1986, The Seattle Times reports that the cost of waterfront improvements planned by the administration of Mayor Charles Royer (b. 1939) is being boosted by plans for Seattle Aquarium exp...
On August 22, 1986, the Timber Fish Wildlife Agreement offers a new way to manage state forests by allowing all the stake holders -- tribes, loggers, environmentalists, government agencies -- to devel...
On September 16, 1986, voters in the Centralia School District approve creation of the Port of Centralia under a recently passed law that allows port districts to be created in regions within counties...
On September 21, 1986, farm workers in Central Washington, most of Latino heritage, found the United Farm Workers of Washington State. The purpose is to bring a collective voice to farm workers attemp...
On September 26, 1986, the first three Port of Chehalis commissioners (Bill Brooks, Ed Pemerl, and Bill Wiester) are sworn in. The new port district within Lewis County follows the same boundaries as ...
On October 17, 1986, Congress designates the Columbia River Gorge, which stretches 80 miles from the Deschutes River to the Sandy River, as a National Scenic Area. Some 277,000 acres of land on both s...
On October 21, 1986, State House candidate John Moyer (1922-2014) sparks a controversy by skipping a campaign debate to perform surgery on a pregnant patient. Republican Moyer is one of Spokane’s be...
On October 31, 1986, President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) delivers a hotly debated statement about Hanford while campaigning in Spokane for Senator Slade Gorton (b. 1928). Republican Gorton is locked i...
On November 4, 1986, Democratic Congressman Brock Adams (1927-2004) wins election as U.S. Senator over incumbent Republican Slade Gorton (b. 1928). Democrats take control of the U.S. Senate from the R...
On December 31, 1986, the Western Gear Corporation closes after six decades in Washington and 25 years on the Everett waterfront. The following day, January 1, 1987, its property will be transferred t...
On December 31, 1986, the somewhat controversial New York City-based background music -- or “elevator music†-- company, Muzak, strikes a merger deal with a Seattle-based rival, YescoForeground Mu...
On February 25, 1987, at 10:07 a.m., a section of the Husky Stadium on the University of Washington campus, which is under construction, collapses. It is a 215-foot addition to the bleachers, which be...