BREWSTER – The comeback Bears pulled out some big plays in their first game of the varsity football season for a 36-34 win at home against Chelan Mountain Goats last Friday, Sept. 2, in the …

North Central Washington, August 31, 2022 — Labor Day marks the unofficial end to summer, and a busy weekend for visits to National Forests in the Pacific Northwest. That’s why Forest …

OLYMPIA — Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) hunter education classes are available now. "Summer is a great time to enroll in hunter education class because as fall …

SOCKEYE – It has been a banner year for sockeye salmon. Over 663,000 sockeye passed through Bonneville Dam this year, the largest run on record since they started counting salmon there in 1938. …

I do love to hike and earlier this week I took off from a U.S. Forest Service trailhead to walk an old logging road that followed a creek and then went up a ridgeline along the eastern slopes of the …

This story starts on June 26 of 2021 on a dock at Loon Lake in Northeast Washington.  Caylun Peterson and his daughter were staying at the family cabin and had gotten up early to go fishing. …

WENATCHEE -  Campfire restrictions are now in effect on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Campfires will be allowed only in designated developed campgrounds and congressionally designated …

WENATCHEE -  The Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest is looking for nominees to fill nine soon to occur vacancies on its 15-member Resource Advisory Committee (RAC).† ìWe have …

Bordering Washington and Idaho, Northeast Oregon’s Wallowa County offers all sorts of outdoors fun. I visited there this week and had a fulfilling day and a half of outdoor recreation. I …

NCW - As the temperature rises, so does the popularity of recreation at area lakes and rivers. On the surface, rivers, streams, and lakes can seem calm, warm or shallow. Yet every year even the most …

Georgia was an unlikely addition to our family. It was 2014 and I was looking for a dog that could hunt both upland birds and ducks. I settled on the springer spaniel as the breed I was going to get …

  Wenatchee - - Beginning today, Thursday, July 28 , campfire restrictions go into effect on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Campfires will be allowed only in designated …

EASTERN WASHINGTON  – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is now restricting campfires and other activities on WDFW-managed lands in Eastern Washington to help reduce the …

A unique opportunity is available for kids between 12 and 16 years of age who have never hunted for big game before but who want to go on their first deer hunt. It’s the 2nd annual Chris …

BREWSTER – The next evolution for the Gamble Sands golf course and destination resort will involve a near-doubling in size through the addition of a second, still-unnamed 18-hole course, …

North to Alaska (again) Last week I got the opportunity to go fishing in Alaska again with my daughter, Faith. Our destination was Sportsman’s Cove Lodge on Prince of Wales Island, …

Playing it Safe Outdoors The wilderness and waters here in Washington offer a wonderful playground for outdoors recreation but far too many people underestimate the dangers out there, turning a …

Additional summer Chinook opportunity also scheduled OLYMPIA – With sockeye salmon returning to the Columbia River in numbers well above the preseason forecast, fishery managers …

Looking for a fun hobby that will get you outside?  Consider buying a metal detector and go hunt for buried treasure.  Metal detectors have been around for decades but now entry level ones …