On Saturday afternoon, May 23, 1998, tugboats carefully guide the USS Missouri (BB-63) away from the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, mark...
On June 5, 1998, sixteen rooms in a two-story log building at Soap Lake’s unique Notaras Lodge are gutted by fire. The massive, desiccated, old-growth logs used to build the lodge fuel the fire....
On June 12, 1998, the Tacoma Municipal Belt Line Railway becomes Tacoma Rail, a division of Tacoma Public Utilities. The renaming applies to the electrical and water utilities as well and drops the go...
On June 17, 1998, the SuperSonics elect not to renew George Karl's contract, thereby terminating the relationship between Karl and the team. Karl's replacement is former Phoenix Suns coach Paul Westph...
On July 1, 1998, cooking-show host Jeff Smith, who had achieved national prominence as The Frugal Gourmet, the most popular televised cooking show in history, agrees to pay more than $5 million to sev...
On August 31, 1998, Kenmore, located between Lake Forest Park and Bothell at the north end of Lake Washington (in King County), incorporates. The move to incorporate was in response to the need to man...
On September 12, 1998, Benaroya Hall opens as the new home of the Seattle Symphony. Designed by LMN Architects (Seattle), with acoustics designed by Dr. Cyril Harris, it is named after the Benaroya fa...
In October 1998, Richard Hugo House, an urban writer's retreat, officially opens in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. The center for writers is named for Pacific Northwest poet Richard Hugo (1...
On October 27, 1998, the luxury sailing vessel Fantome was caught off the coast of Honduras by Hurricane Mitch and perished with her crew of 31, having previously disembarked her passengers. Originall...
On November 3, 1998, Democratic Senator Patty Murray (b. 1950) wins re-election to the U.S. Senate and state voters approve a ballot measure permitting the use of marijuana for medical purposes. An in...
On November 6, 1998, the rusting but still modernistic hulk of the ferry Kalakala makes a triumphant return to Elliott Bay, where it once shuttled cross-sound commuters and awed out-of-town visitors. ...
On November 11, 1998, on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War I, the sculpture Doughboy, created by Alonzo Victor Lewis (1886-1946), is re-dedicated at Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Evergreen ...