Dear Editor:The summer of 2006 has proved challenging for outdoor events in the Roaring Fork Valley. We cannot complain about the wonderful rainstorms this year. They are long overdue. We will praise ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - In a win for both farmers and environmentalists, researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have successfully quantified the CO2-reduction potential of ...

On the banks of the Columbia River, tall columns of rock poke out from the cliffs. “So you see all of these black rocks that are on either side of us, on either side of the river? Those are basalts.

Tell your stories in Citizen Journal Welcome to the Citizen Journal, a forum in which Voice readers can publish their own feature stories and neighborhood news items and photographs. We hope to ...

Basalt Rock Company played an important role in my life. Al Streblow, a German immigrant and scion of a well-known Napa family, had opened Basalt as a rock quarry in 1920. The original quarry was ...

Runners, bicyclists and walkers in Columbia Park have probably noticed a couple 1,500-pound basalt slabs installed along the path in recent days. Those are part of one local teacher’s decades-long ...

Ryan Wicke, of A.M. Landshaper Inc., evens out the bed of basalt rock laid on an area below I-90 and Bernard, Aug. 31, 2017, in Spokane, Wash. A homeless camp sits a few feet away at right rear. Ryan ...