You don’t need to travel far to find an excellent hike in the Willamette Valley. Here's a roundup of the best hikes near the ...

If you love souvenirs, curios, and bizarre artifacts, there's one tourist shop you won't want to miss. As a bonus, it's ...

Welcome to Leavenworth, Washington, the Christmas capital of the Pacific Northwest.

Freshly baked pretzels, shining tree lights and sleds in the snow lend a ruddy warmth to an unlikely collection of Bavarian-themed chalets in the mountains of Washington state. Decades ago, the town ...

When I heard that eastern Oregon counties are thinking of joining Idaho, I wrote a letter to the editor of 12 eastern Oregon and eastern Washington newspapers suggesting that the citizens of those ...

Leavenworth, Washington, has become a holiday hotspot, transforming from a fading mining town into the Pacific Northwest's ...

The Cascadia High Speed Rail project, which promises travel between Seattle and Portland in under an hour, took a step ...

Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, shown on Oct. 9, 2024, is open year-round but many trails are closed October through ...

From the waterfalls of the Columbia River Gorge to the forested shorelines of Puget Sound, holidays to Washington are all about exploring the Pacific Northwest’s wild side. Home to three national ...

West coast states are spending millions to protect their inland waterways from invasive crabs. In some places, otters are ...