FORT SIMCOE HISTORICAL STATE PARK — Suzanne Elshult watched as her yellow lab, Kili, explored a dusty patch of rough ground before heading toward a low cluster of loose brush. The only sounds on this ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...