Outdoors

More chairlifts will start spinning in North Idaho this weekend. 

Better late than never.

Chris Donley was fishing the Idaho side of the Snake River with a friend last Saturday when they saw a game warden talking to an angler on the Washington side of the river.

Joe DuPont did not know jobs like his existed when he was an undergraduate at the University of Idaho.

Chairlifts around the Inland Northwest will remain stationary this week as the region continues to stay light on snow.

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I know how to swim, but I have about as much grace as a toddler with those bright orange arm floaties, bobbing about somewhere between ecstatic-at-floating and half-drowned-by-splashing.

A turkey hangs out on a tree in the Pend Oreille River Valley last week in this photo by Nia Patton.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is shaking up the way nonresident hunters obtain some big game hunting tags.

The National Park Service is introducing a digital annual pass that charges foreign visitors $170 more than United States residents across the federal recreation system.

Another case of an always-fatal deer disease has been found in Eastern Washington.

Forty years ago, Dick Bass became the first person credited with reaching the tallest point on the world’s seven continents.

Steve Stevens still doesn’t have an answer to a question he was first asked in August, right after he’d finished climbing Mount Elbrus.

MINNEAPOLIS – Some Ely residents aren’t too thrilled about their newest neighbors.

Tip of the week

Sometimes, a new adventure destination is a familiar unknown. Upon first inquiry, people seem familiar with the place, as if they have spent their lives or perhaps last week, doing just the thing you are thinking of doing. But their reliability, like the terrain of your quest, is unknown.

The digital age is almost here for Washington hunters and anglers.

An otter roams Middle Pine Lake at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge in this photo by Trevor Allen.