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Kristian Foden-Vencil/OPBAuthorities are warning people about chilly river temperatures as the heat begins to build this weekend. -
A father-son connection re-forged on a long bike ride; Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's and 300 Conversations along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America.
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California day camps operate without background checks, CPR training, child/adult ratios or required reporting of injury and death. A family whose daughter drowned at a camp is working to change that. -
Grueling trail runs in Siskiyous boost people of Ukraine.
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60 stories from Pacific Crest Trail in the new book "Crossing Paths: A Pacific Crest Trailside Reader." It's something of an anniversary edition, coming ten years after the original trailside reader, and it includes prose and poetry from many writers.
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Balls and strikes and estrangement and connection, in Wade Rouse's 'Magic Season'
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Erin Wilson recounts how her dog saved her from a mountain lion attack while she hiked along a river in remote Northern California. Eva the Belgian Malinois is recovering.
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Kami Rita Sherpa has set and broke his own world record for the most successful Mount Everest ascents multiple times in recent years. He's now summited Everest for the 26th time.
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People with an interest in geography or Pacific Northwest history are coming up with replacement names for dozens of places around the region that currently have a name considered derogatory. The U.S. Secretary of the Interior launched the search for new names by ordering a specific racial slur stricken off the map nationwide as expeditiously as possible.
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The federal Bureau of Land Management says increasing fees will fund maintenance and prevent damage at 22 recreation sites across the state.
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Yellowstone became the first national park in the U.S. on March 1, 1872, and it helped usher in the broader national park movement. The park stretches into Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
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"I'm just really happy," Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa said. He is the youngest person to defeat Carlsen since the Norwegian became world champion.
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None of the thirteen Winter Olympians with ties to the Pacific Northwest is coming home from the Beijing Games with a medal. Still, many of the Northwest's elite skiers, skaters and sliders will leave Sunday's closing ceremony with feelings of accomplishment.
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Take some time to enjoy pictures of the bigger and lesser- known moments from the winter games.
