So, you’re strolling through downtown Spokane when a stranger walks up, says he’s from out of town and asks for directions. “Where are you from?” you ask him with a smile. “Flagstaff, Arizona,” he ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge will receive $1.5 million to purchase nearly 500 additional acres of Eastern Washington’s Channeled Scablands. The federal appropriation will ...

Drive north from the little town of Moses Lake in Eastern Washington, along the often lonely Highway 17, and you’ll start to notice boulders the size of beach balls littering the fields along the road ...

Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day. Remnant of a lost landscape, this ...

Great horned owlettes are hatching, coyotes are denning and rattlesnakes are still groggy – all signals that it’s prime time to hike, bike or ride a horse through the sagebrush country of Eastern ...

I’d barely put the car in park at the first stop on our father-son field trip last spring when Alex made a beeline for a series of basalt columns known as “The Feathers.” About a mile away, Interstate ...

In a rough-and-tumble wonderland of plunging canyons and towering buttes, some of the still-raw bluffs are lined with soaring, six-sided stone columns so orderly and trim, they could almost pass as ...

"It was the biggest flood in the world for which there is geological evidence," writes Norman Maclean in A River Runs Through It, referring to the catastrophic deluge that tore through the Pacific ...