Longtime KING 5 Photojournalist Dave Wike is set to retire at the end of May after more than 42 years with the station. Wike began his career at KING several weeks after the eruption of Mount St. Helens. After graduating from Washington State University in 1980, Wike was hired as a temporary video editor. The job became permanent a month later, and in 1982, Wike turned to news photography. Over four decades, Wike covered many memorable stories, including traveling to Russia for a series on Boeing and the Soviet Union opening up and being embedded with the 555th combat engineers during the Iraq war in 2003. Wike said he and former Reporter Glenn Farley were overseas in the war zone for a month. Wike also traveled to China to follow former Gov. Gary Locke on a trade mission. READ THE FULL STORY HERE: https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/photojournalist-dave-wike-retiring/281-244aae07-dfdb-440a-ac95-0556ea9d5c7f