This column was first posted on Rocky Barker’s Letters from the West blog on Sept. 17, 2024. Former President Donald Trump ...

(Photo courtesy of Bob Rees) Salmon fishing season in the Columbia River will continue at least through Sept. 30, Washington ...

Daniel J. Evans, a moderate Republican who dominated Washington state politics as a three-term governor and a U.S. senator ...

A federal proposal to move radioactive nuclear waste from Washington through Oregon and onward to Utah and Texas via truck ...

Sitting more or less in the center of Washington state, around a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Seattle, Wenatchee is a ...

Need To Know: Parts of the highway may close in late fall due to snow.

A Republican who wants smaller government will face off with a Democratic incumbent this November in the race for ...

RIDGEFIELD — For as much that is new with this year’s Columbia River volleyball team, plenty remains the same. For one, the ...

Early Labor Day morning, Lynn Rasmussen and her group — The Faux Fur-sters — shed their warm, namesake coats to reveal ...

That means both loss of commercial timber, forest dwellings and animal habitat, and an increase in the duration and severity ...

Declaring a state of emergency allows state and local governments much more freedom to coordinate their emergency agencies.

Barry Sweet/Associated Press As a senator, Mr. Evans sponsored the million-acre Washington State Wilderness Act and legislation creating the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. He also ...