Music is a universal component of religious expression. For the indigenous peoples of North America this is particularly true, because there can be no ceremony without song.

The aquifers under the Columbia Plateau – a 44,000-square-mile area roughly the size of Ohio – serve nearly 1.3 million people in the three states and provide irrigation water for an ...

The Ancient One, also known as Kennewick Man, was reburied early Saturday in the high desert of the Columbia Plateau, ending 20 years of legal battles and scientific study.

In the Columbia plateau region east of the Cascades, farmers needed varieties that could thrive on 8- to 15-inches of annual precipitation, a third of what western Oregon receives.

ELLENSBURG — In a historic first meeting of two very different worlds, Columbia Plateau tribal leaders met privately Tuesday with the scientist who led the court battle to study Kennewick Man ...

A segment of the Columbia Plateau Trail — a 130-mile non-motorized rail-trail that runs from Fish Lake in Spokane County to Ice Harbor Dam near Pasco — will be dedicated in a ceremony Tuesday ...

CHENEY, Wash. - A hunter was found on the Columbia Plateau Trail on Tuesday after becoming lost for eight hours in the dense fog. Around 5:20 p.m. on Nov. 15, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office ...

CHENEY, Wash. -- Spokane County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue deputies located a lost hunter on the Columbia Plateau Trail on Tuesday. On November 14 at around 5:20 p.m., Spokane County ...