One of the Earth's strangest geological riddles is the evidence for a huge catastrophe that struck eastern Washington State thousands of years ago. It took scientists decades to figure out that a ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ambling through the parched and scarred landscape of eastern Washington state is the 60-mile-long Grand Coulee, the largest of the stair-step canyons that give the region called the ...

So, you’re strolling through downtown Spokane when a stranger walks up, says he’s from out of town and asks for directions. “Where are you from?” you ask him with a smile. “Flagstaff, Arizona,” he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eastern Washington residents may know Sun Lakes — Dry Falls State Park as a hidden treasure, but now the rest of the world is also ...

Drive north from the little town of Moses Lake in Eastern Washington, along the often lonely Highway 17, and you’ll start to notice boulders the size of beach balls littering the fields along the road ...

I’d barely put the car in park at the first stop on our father-son field trip last spring when Alex made a beeline for a series of basalt columns known as “The Feathers.” About a mile away, Interstate ...

When Glacial Lake Missoula's ice dam shattered, a northern arm of the lake drained in a matter of hours through a narrow gap in Montana's Blackfoot River valley. One can only imagine the extraordinary ...

PUBLIC LANDS — I was exploring old, new and developing trails on the BLM’s Fishtrap area on Saturday. The scablands are very wet and waterfowl are in every puddle. I came over one basalt outcropping ...

Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day. Remnant of a lost landscape, this ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: Depositional landforms in Moses Coulee. The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Bed ...