After a long winter — a really long winter — it’s time to see what’s being offered at the local WSU Extension Office for the coming spring.
Kristy and Anna Berington say they aim for an improvement in their time and their finishing placement every time they participate in Alaska’s legendary Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Early one Sunday morning a month ago, while reading the newspaper, I contemplated several options for making the best of the day outdoors.
PENDLETON — A large swath of Oregon wilderness that was recently purchased by a private organization will be kept open to the public.
THE DALLES — Fisheries managers have announced that the popular spring Chinook fishery on the Deschutes River will not open in 2017.
Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever Chapter 258 experienced a tremendous turnout for its 26th annual fundraising banquet on Feb. 25 in the Walla Walla Fairgrounds community building, said Tami Wass, banquet chairwoman.
After a long winter — a really long winter — it’s time to see what’s being offered at the local WSU Extension Office for the coming spring.
March is a wake-up call for insects, plants and mosses and invites migratory birds to return to the Walla Walla Valley.
February can be a rough time for Inland Northwest fly fishers who don’t have tickets to sunny saltwater destinations.
One of the dirtier annual races in the Valley may have had its dirtiest run ever on Saturday.
For Luke Rieker, powder surfing represents a journey backwards — a de-evolution of snowboarding, to a simpler, purer, more intuitive ride.
Spring chinook angling in the lower Columbia River is projected to last through April 6 before the early season closes and sportsmen wait until a mid-May update of the salmon forecast.
OLYMPIA (AP) — A new bill seeks to designate Sasquatch as the “official cryptid” of Washington state.
A group of Spokane Mountaineers shouldered packs last weekend and snowshoed out from Lookout Pass with shovels and positive attitudes for their first winter camping experience in snow caves.
Alex Johnson goes down on an ice-glazed tennis court at Walla Walla Community College during an impromptu game of tennis Thursday with classmates Jacob Pribilsky, left, and Seamus Duffy — for no reason other than fun. Since it was Duffy’s 17th birthday, that was as good a reason as any. Free…
Mark Hewgley paused while breaking up ice to help Lindsey Kelly reattach her traction cleats on a very slippery sidewalk along East Alder Street this morning. Hewgley said he’d been out breaking ice and helping folks cross the streets since 5 a.m. “just for the (heck) of it.” Streets and roa…
Someone with a clear-cut case of canine affection put this sign and bucket of joy just inside The Fort Walla Walla Dog Park recently.
A snow-dusted pony seeks a little shelter from a dead tree in a pasture along Fern Avenue during a steady, at times heavy, snowfall Tuesday afternoon in the Walla Walla Valley. Today dawned with a freezing rain and the possiblity of more expected through tonight. Thursday, however, the weath…
This tricked-out Toyota pickup was parked atop a large mound of snow this morning at the corner of Park and Whitman streets near Sharpstein Elementary School. Another round of snow is expected today and Wednesday but should soon melt as temperatures rise into the 40s later in the week.
In the annals of good-old days, the winter of 1968-69 stands tall.
With January now stored away in the deep freeze, the natural world is preparing for spring, longer days and warmer air and soils. Daffodils, tulips and snow drops are already breaking through in many yards and gardens in the Walla Walla Valley.
The Walla Walla Valley has miles of great outdoors to explore, and more than 450 residents turned out this week to suggest where a system of paths, trails and sidewalks should lead.
The road to Palouse Falls has reopened, but it is a driver-beware passage, according to Washington State Parks.
DAYTON — The meeting room was packed, energy was high and ideas were flying as community members on Monday discussed and mapped suggestions for a system of Blue Mountain Region Trails.
More than 30 local, state, regional and federal agencies are working on a regionwide nonmotorized trail and transportation network, the school district online newsletter reported.
It was six days before Christmas when we headed for the Portland airport, a group of young adults from Walla Walla setting out to spend 10 days in Jamaica with the locally-based Embracing Orphans.
City of Walla Walla employees Seth Minson, left, and Kyle Clemens sent chips flying as they worked throughout the downtown area Wednesday to break up snow and ice berms in street gutters where sidewalks meets crosswalks. “This is a workout,” Minson said. Streets and sidewalks early this morn…
Along an athletic track covered in crusty snow and ice, Walla Walla University instructors Brent Bergherm, left, and Kyle Craig carefully get in some exercize late Tuesday morning.
DAYTON — Dogs might have howled with joy had they been allowed to attend Monday night’s City Council meeting.
KETCHUM, Idaho — Rhys Yeakley grew up in Maine, where the local high school had an outside ice rink that the fire department flooded every fall and he skated on all winter.
Community members are invited to participate in planning for a regional system of trails, paths and sidewalks for pedestrians, bicyclists and horseback riders connecting communities along the Blue Mountains.
Over the decades, the sturgeon population of the lower Columbia River often has bedeviled Washington and Oregon biologists tasked with its management.
A hungry deer, one of several hanging around homes at the Villages at Garrison Creek in College Place, finds a sunflower seed snack Tuesday in birdfeeders hanging in a yard off Southeast Swainson Lane.
SALEM, Ore.—Spring bear hunters are reminded that the deadline to apply for an Oregon controlled hunt is Feb. 10.
The cross-country skier is flying uphill faster than I am sliding downhill.
With Walla Walla’s skyline in the background, a bull elk on Thursday makes its way across a frigid field southeast of the city along Cottonwood Road. The low temperature early in the morning, -6 degrees, set a record for the date, the National Weather Service reported today. The mark was 36 …
Noah Hartzheim, 21, launches into the snow-filled air off a ramp at Fort Walla Walla Tuesday afternoon, as his friend Luke Flippo, 22, looks on. The two friends were looking forward to taking their snowboard skills to the Ski Bluewood slopes soon. “It’s going to be awesome up there,” Hartzhe…
For about five glorious minutes after a gray, frigid weekend, the sun burst forth in the western sky at about 4 p.m. Monday and bathed much of the Valley, including this area along Mill Creek, in golden sunlight. The gray was back today and is expected to linger through Wednesday.
A sliver of moon takes over from the setting sun above frigid vines at Va Piano Vineyards south of Walla Walla. The Valley’s deep freeze this week is expected to relent this weekend, but not after a possibly snowy Saturday and a mix of rain and snow Sunday. The start of next week is expected…
A hearty woman braves Tuesday’s icy roads and cold temperatures to get in a jog along Berney Road in Walla Walla. High temperatures were in the low 20s and by Thursday are expected to be even colder, in the low teens. Overnight temperatures are to be in the single digits tonight through Frid…
A small, multihued bird never before seen in Idaho was spotted Dec. 26 in Hell’s Gate State Park along the Snake River south of Lewiston, experts say.
A YMCA program to get middle and high school youths outdoors to experience winter camping is accepting used equipment and outerwear donations starting Tuesday, officials said.
Most of the stars that we see at night are called fixed stars. Even though they are moving, their distance from Earth is so great that they will not appear to budge relative to the other stars in our lifetimes. Even over decades, their motion is undetectable to the human eye.
As another Christmas season comes to an end, decorations like this fountain transformed into a Christmas tree along Magnolia Drive south of Walla Walla will be going away. Real Christmas trees in the area will once again be picked up along the roadsides by Boys Scouts of America Troop 305 on…
McCALL, Idaho — Backcountry skiing is an integral part of Idaho’s winter recreation scene.
After the weather’s been cold and frightful.
