Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighty-five years ago, Galloping Gertie collapsed and fell into the Tacoma Narrows. on Nov. 7, 1940, about 11 a.m., the previous ...

I DECIDED TO go a little bit outside the North Olympic Peninsula for this month’s column. In the early years of the 20th century, there were great advancements in structural engineering. Advances in ...