Steptoe News

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. In 1858, Eastern Washington was still closed to outside settlement, but hardy trappers, prospectors and traders traversed the region.

The window of spring chinook fishing opportunities has closed in the Snake River near Clarkston after state Fish and Wildlife determined the sport catch quota had been achieved.

Our Picture This! assignment this month was Patterns, a subject near and dear to every photographer's heart and eye.

A new sixth-tenths of a mile section of Steptoe Street along the Kennewick-Richland city limits is now open to the public.