Eli Francovich

I fell in love with journalism, fully and undeniably, while being threatened with bodily harm in a bar in Troy Montana. It was the kind of dive that, growing up in North Idaho, I thought I knew well. Elk racks stapled to the walls, a saddle, perhaps never used, in a corner. Newspaper clippings of hard-nosed men standing next to dead animals. Bud Light and Miller Hi Life posters slowly peeling downward, the humidity of a thousand drunks over a thousand nights loosening it all. Pool tabs and a juxebox. Cigarette smoke pooled above it all, haze upon haze.

Nia Patton took this image of a male wood duck swimming in the shallows of the Pend Oreille River on April 17.

Somewhere on Whitworth’s 200-acre campus last spring, a baby owl fell from its nest as a stiff wind blew it from the relative safety of home.

Some area anglers have been illegally fishing for trout ahead of Saturday's Washington trout opener. 

The annual Lake Pend Oreille State of the Lake meeting will be held in-person on April 13, the first time the meeting has been held in person since 2019 due to the pandemic. 

Washington biologists have confirmed the existence of a wolf pack on the western flank of Mount Spokane. The pack was confirmed during the state's annual wolf survey and has a minimum of four members. 

When a derailed train spilled beer and clay into the Clark Fork River Sunday morning, Stephen Smith jumped on the chance to go fish.

A panic-inducing video of a snowboarder buried head first in deep snow at the base of a tree has gone viral and highlights the importance of staying within eyesight of skiing and boarding buddies.