ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Nearly 20 years ago, students in Ellensburg High School’s Class of 1998 built a memorial on Manastash Ridge to honor one of their most beloved teachers and coaches, Ray Westberg, ...

The Manastash Ridge Fire burning about 12 miles southwest of Cle Elum grew to 1,665 acres as of Saturday evening, officials said in a news release. Officials are hopeful the fire near Shoestring Lake ...

Cooler temperatures and wet weather have slowed the growth of several wildfires across the Northwest. However, that did not seem to be the case for the fire at Manastash Ridge outside of Ellensburg.

In 1997, a Washington man identifying himself as Mel Waters phoned the radio show Coast to Coast AM with a story that was peculiar even for a program about government conspiracies and supernatural ...

ELLENSBURG — Anne Merrill-Steskal lives a stone’s throw away from Ellensburg’s go-to spot for outdoor recreation, a wall of trees and hilly paths bordering her yard. The trails climb all over ...

The Manastash Ridge fire west of Cle Elum, Wash., has scorched more than 2,300 acres. (Incident Management Team) The wildfire season has slowed in the Northwest over the past week but two new blazes ...

Don't get out your hiking guidebooks for a description of the Ray Westburg Trail on Manastash Ridge near Thorp -- you won't find it. The wildflower-rich hike is in the hills southwest of Ellensburg ...