Nicholas Deshais

1 week ago | tri-cityherald.com | Nicholas Deshais

In downtown Seattle, aboard a Washington state ferry and at dozens of other "No Kings" rallies across the Pacific Northwest, tens of thousands of peaceful protesters raised their voices Saturday in a public rebuke of President Donald Trump's hard-line policies. At the largest rally in Seattle, more than 70,000 people flooded the streets shoulder-to-shoulder, marching en masse from Capitol Hill to Seattle Center - making it one of the biggest protests in the city's history.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Nicholas Deshais |Greg Kim |Caitlyn Freeman |Alex Halverson

In downtown Seattle, aboard a Washington state ferry and at dozens of other “No Kings” rallies across the Pacific Northwest, tens of thousands of protesters raised their voices Saturday in a public rebuke of President Donald Trump’s hard-line policies. Nationally, organizers estimated 2,000 protests were calling for Trump to be “dethroned,” saying he has wielded his presidential authority like a monarch, not an elected leader, according to the 50501 Movement.

2 weeks ago | spokesman.com | Nicholas Deshais

When the first official map of Inglewood was drawn, Seattle was still smoldering and Washington wasn’t yet a state. It was July 1889, mere weeks after the Great Seattle Fire decimated the fledgling city, and just months before Washington Territory would become the nation’s 42nd state. The notarized plat map of Inglewood — now a neighborhood of Sammamish — envisioned the orderly grid of a city perched on the steep hills hugging the eastern shore of Lake Sammamish.

2 weeks ago | tri-cityherald.com | Nicholas Deshais

Following years of reduced service and frustrated passengers, a second boat will sail between Bremerton and Seattle beginning Sunday, restoring the state ferry route to service it hasn't had since September 2021. With two boats - the Walla Walla and the Issaquah are scheduled - there will be 16 round-trip sailings a day, up from eight, and wait times will be cut by an hour, ferry officials said.

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Nicholas Deshais

Traffic Lab is a Seattle Times project that digs into the region’s transportation issues to explore the policies and politics that determine how we get around and how billions of dollars in public money are spent. Following years of reduced service and frustrated passengers, a second boat will sail between Bremerton and Seattle beginning Sunday, restoring the state ferry route to service it hasn’t had since September 2021.