The longer this "pandamnic," as author Rick Steber has called it, goes on, the more this reporter becomes convinced of the need for outdoor relief from the strains of present-day ...

Sustained lava geysers began pumping from the north vent within Halemaʻumaʻu Crater at the summit of Kīlauea volcano on the ...

Park officials said he would have fallen a hundred feet to the caldera floor but was stopped when he hit a tree.

An aerial view of lava flows in Leilani Estates. U.S. Geological Survey. The Big Island of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has a lot going on. Down one of its sides (or flanks), plumes of gas steam out ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The annual Lava Island Fish Rescue will kick off next Friday, October 18, and volunteers are urgently needed to assist in this important effort to save stranded fish, but ...

Amid patches of snow and ponderosa pines, a half mile from Lava Island Falls in the Deschutes River, a pair of hydrologists with the Oregon Water Resources Department dropped a cable down an ...

A tree ultimately broke his fall, saving the man from an additional, potentially fatal 100-foot fall to the caldera floor ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A beautiful day by the Deschutes River ended in broken glass and frustration after two cars parked at Lava Island Falls were broken into. On Friday, each car had a smashed ...

BEND, Ore. – Rescue crews are continuing the search for a kayaker who went missing last Friday near Lava Island Falls on the Deschutes River. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office said ...

You can also start farther north at the Lava Island Falls Trailhead, where you can see Lava Island Falls before hiking about 3.5 miles south to Dillon Falls.

BEND, Ore. — Some trails in Central Oregon I avoid during summer weekends, knowing they will be too clogged with other bikers and hikers to actually enjoy. The Deschutes River Trail from Meadow ...

In concrete jungles, there’s the fear of falling through a sidewalk grate, but in parts of Hawaii, there are lava tubes. They form during volcanic eruptions, starting their lives as rivers of ...