Washington enjoyed a brief moment in the sunshine during the Gold Rush, but this abandoned mining town is a testament to how ...

OKANOGAN COUNTY, Wash. — The busy fire season over the summer stirred up havoc throughout Washington state. Hundreds of thousands of acres were burning for days and many homes standing in the way of ...

Buckhorn Mountain is in the northeast corner of Okanogan County, about three miles south of Canada. It’s a mountain and ravine area with a history of gold mining stretching back 125 years. In 1992, ...

In the ’80s, activist David Kliegman was worried about logging companies over-cutting the forests on Buckhorn Mountain, the high point of the picturesque Okanogan Highlands in north-central Washington ...

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The Okanogan Complex of wildfires has surpassed last year's Carlton Complex blazes and is now the largest in Washington state history. Fire spokesman Rick Isaacson said Monday the Okanogan Complex was ...

A federal judge has ruled that Crown Resources, the owner and operator of the now-closed Buckhorn Mountain gold mine in north-central Washington, has committed 3,539 environmental violations. The ...

TONASKET -- Ah, peach pie and coffee for lunch under a giant catalpa shade tree on the deck in front of Shannon's Ice Cream Parlor. It just doesn't get much better than that. I was actually hungry ...

For decades, Okanogan Country’s “Lakes of Legend” have attracted families from across the state to come and experience the excellent trout fishing the region’s lakes and rivers have to offer. The ...

The Okanogan Complex of wildfires has surpassed last year's Carlton Complex blazes and is now the largest in Washington state history. Fire spokesman Rick Isaacson said Monday the Okanogan Complex was ...