March 8, 2014, 4:00pm Northwest
PORTLAND -- Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department has released the 2014 Oregon State Parks Guide, a full-color, magazine-style brochure featuring detailed information about more than 200 of Oregon state campgrounds, day-use areas, trails, bikeways and heritage sites. Read story
March 8, 2014, 4:00pm Food
PORTLAND -- The many accolades earned by chefs in this city are rooted in what the land offers. They succeed by adaptation to their environment. Read story
March 1, 2014, 4:00pm Life
SEATTLE -- Chukundi Salisbury has arguably walked on more park trails in Seattle than anyone in the last two decades. As Seattle Parks and Recreation's trails coordinator, he has walked most of the 120 miles of trails in Seattle parks -- often dozens if not hundreds of times, treading over… Read story
February 15, 2014, 4:00pm Food
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- It can be a recipe for disaster: renting a vacation house with friends without talking about meal planning. Read story
February 15, 2014, 4:00pm Life
MINNEAPOLIS -- The northern lights rise like glowing pillars and then unfurl to stretch across the night sky. They wave like a flag, shimmering green with purple at the fringes, below a tapestry of stars. Sometimes they transform nearly the whole sky into their dance floor, flitting north and south… Read story
February 15, 2014, 4:00pm Life
KOH PHANGAN, Thailand -- A trip sampling the diversity of Southeast Asian destinations can take you from the sleek modernity of Singapore to the ancient temples of Cambodia's Angkor Wat. And then there are the beaches of Thailand: relaxing, beautiful, and for the adventurous spring-breaker, a lot more exotic than… Read story
February 8, 2014, 4:00pm Travel
DOVER, England -- I fancy myself a backpack-carrying, adventure-seeking traveler, at home in hostels and on hiking trails. But there I was, on a luxury cruise ship, sipping wine with silver-haired foxes, fox-trotting with male escorts in the ballroom, and escorting myself on a tapas-like tour around Europe, sampling cities… Read story
February 8, 2014, 4:00pm Travel
HAVANA -- Colorful, crumbling and controversial, Cuba is caught between then and now, between communism and capitalism and the challenge of two currencies. Read story
February 8, 2014, 4:00pm Travel
MILAN -- Milan is Italy's finance and fashion capital, with hundreds of billions of euros invested on the Italian Stock Exchange and tens of billions more spent yearly in the city's luxury boutiques. While Florence attracts art-lovers, Venice the romantic and Rome the faithful, most travelers to Milan come to… Read story
January 28, 2014, 4:00pm Life
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania announced this month that they have unearthed the tomb of a previously unknown Egyptian pharaoh. Read story
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