On March 28, 2022, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signs legislation establishing pickleball as the official state sport of Washington. Invented on Bainbridge Island in 1965 by three men – Joel Pritc...
On April 7, 2022, at 3:43 a.m., a passing tow-truck driver spots flames coming from the windows of one of the oldest buildings in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. Through the night and following day,...
On April 27, 2022, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) inaugurates a program called Hope Corps that provides grants to under- and unemployed creative workers and arts organizations who dev...
On June 7, 2022, Black Arts Legacies, a digital archive exploring the history, diversity, and impact of Seattle Black artists, debuts. The inaugural Legacies archive includes written profiles, photogr...
On June 15, 2022, the final piece of artwork comprising the AIDS Memorial Pathway is installed. The last work of art is Horatio Hung-Yan Law’s "Ribbon of Light," which joins the work of four oth...
On September 27, 2022, shortly after dawn, an all-electric commuter aircraft prototype, powered by more than 21,500 battery cells, takes off from Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake....
On March 1, 2023, Providence Hospital of Everett, Pacific campus, celebrates the 100th anniversary of its groundbreaking in 1923, when a two-stage building plan at a cost of $300,000 was approved by t...
On June 18, 2023, the OceanGate Titan submersible begins its two and a half mile descent to the wreckage of the RMS Titanic. It is 8 a.m. EDT in the North Atlantic, 400 miles from the c...
On September 9, 2023, Seattle gardeners and friends gather to celebrate a half-century of city-sponsored community gardening through the P-Patch Program. The program was launched in 1973 after Univers...
On November 5, 2024, Washington voters elect Attorney General Bob Ferguson (b. 1965) as governor and re-elect U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (b. 1958) to a fifth term. All eight of the state's 10 members...
On December 18, 2024, the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) announces the official eradication of the Northern Giant Hornet in Whatcom County and, by extension, the state. The news con...