Yellow jackets are especially active as summer wanes Have you recently experienced a sensation you’d describe as “hot and smoky, almost irreverent,” as if W.C. Fields was “extinguishing a cigar on ...

While the Easy Fire created some doubt, the annual Methow Trails Cutthroat Classic was able to go on as usual after the trails were re-opened. Some 400 runners competed over an 11-mile course that ...

Former Olympian Erik Bjornsen of Winthrop again took 1st place in the Methow Trails Cutthroat Classic last weekend, winning by 4 minutes. Amelia Keyser-Gibson was the first woman finisher. More photos ...

Photo by Michelle Schmidtke Classroom in Bloom’s Fall Garden Party last Saturday offered dinner, live music, a fundraising auction, hand-crafted cocktails and garden activities on an ideal late summer ...

… at least it was for many kids last weekend at the Okanogan County Fair, where youngsters proudly displayed their birds, bunnies and cattle. The snake was not part of the agriculture competition, but ...

Photo courtesy of Nicole Mccullough Members of the Smiling Valley Quilters gathered at the Mazama Community Club last weekend to create barn quilts, pieces of plywood painted to look like quilt ...

The two largest fires that have affected the Methow Valley this summer — the Pioneer Fire on Lake Chelan and the Easy Fire west of Rainy Pass — have remained within their respective footprints over ...

It’s been a decade and a half since the state B cross championships have not seen a team from Liberty Bell High School on the boys’ starting line, and a full decade since the Mountain Lion girls haven ...

Seattle comedians Adam Tiller and Quinn Fitzgerald perform at the Methow Valley Eagles on Saturday (Sept. 14). Free appetizer hour at 6 p.m. and show at 7 p.m. Tickets for the adult show are $25 and ...

RiversMeet mixed-use project developer Peter Goldman has taken his most recent dispute with the Winthrop Westernization Design Review Board (WDRB) to the streets.

The Methow Valley Bike Shack is hosted by The Cove in Twisp as a place for valley cyclists, regardless of prior bike repair experience, to work on their adult or kids bikes with a knowledgeable bike ...