WHITE SWAN — Teenagers batted balloons near the parking lot of Fort Simcoe Historical State Park as children explored a small playground. The smell of meat grilling wafted around a picnic shelter. The ...

A state park deep on the Yakama Reservation has reopened for the season with much happening behind the scenes over the past several months, from improvements to structures to discussion about how to ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This report is a collaboration between the Northwest News Network, Northwest Public Broadcasting and the Yakima Herald-Republic. A cultural edit was provided by Jiselle Halfmoon, of ...

WHITE SWAN, Yakima County — Fort Simcoe Historical State Park is closed for the winter, its main entrance barred by a gate and its public buildings locked until April. But people are still coming, ...

WHITE SWAN, Wash. — Washington state’s website for Fort Simcoe State Park highlights the military history of the park 30 miles southeast of Yakima. “Fort Simcoe is one of the few remaining pre-Civil ...

Since time immemorial, Native Tribes in the Columbia Basin met at a village crossroads called Mool-Mool. In the wake of the Yakama Treaty of 1855, the site was of continual use as a U.S. military ...