Aim is to develop solutions to chronic water shortages Facing four consecutive years of drought and “challenging climate ...

Oct. 18—It's been a busy week for Lance Rider. Rider owns The Outdoorsman, a store in Winthrop, Washington, and he's had a lot of customers this week buying flies and other essentials for steelhead ...

Catch-and-release trout fishing on the Methow River is set to close at 12:01 a.m. Saturday to protect incoming steelhead, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department announced Friday afternoon. The ...

The Methow Valley starts at the east end of the Cascades, at the headwaters of the Methow River. It includes the towns of Twisp and Winthrop, as well as the unincorporated community of Mazama.

I was so bummed out about having to move on the opening weekend for summer-run steelhead on the Methow River in Eastern Washington that I asked my landlord for a reprieve. She didn’t make me beg. So I ...

An Eastern Washington river is now being affected by the heat wave. State Fish and Wildlife has implemented a ruling that closes fishing on the Methow River each day between 2 p.m. and midnight from ...

More than 300,000 acres of public land in the Methow Valley would be permanently off-limits to mining under legislation proposed Wednesday by U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. The goal of ...

Washington's Methow Valley is perfect for hitting the slopes or watching the snow fly Chimney smoke rises straight into the sky without a breath of wind to ruffle it. A dappled gray horse, wearing a ...

Wildfire represents both risk and reward for some small communities in Washington. Walking the line between a "good fire" and a "bad fire" can be tricky. For the Methow Valley, wildfire is a way of ...

At the confluence of the Chewuch and Methow rivers, Winthrop, Wash., grew up as a mining community. When opening of the North Cascades Highway brought tourists in the 1970s, the Okanogan County town ...