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 ...

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 ...

Across the Channeled Scablands lie landforms so extreme they still feel impossible at first glance. Scientists have identified evidence of enormous floods that moved through the region at volumes far ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a map, the Channeled Scablands look like a couple of melting gray jellyfish draped across Eastern Washington. The jellyfish have fat and skinny tentacles that flow southwest from Spokane, wrapping ...