If you have not heard of the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, you are likely not alone. Now, there are plenty of puns about hidden gems, and how the place rocks, but I'll leave the puns ...

California has Silicon Valley. Could a Silicon Forest in Washington be next? A team of materials scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is on it. RICHLAND, Wash. – California has ...

Gideo Barnes examines a selection of fossils at the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals on a field trip with Jackson Elementary. (Michal Thompson/The Hillsboro Argus) Fossil fanatics get ready ...

The Pacific Northwest has a fascinating landscape, shaped by ages of fire and floods. It’s possible to see this geological history come to life at the Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, just about an ...

The new attraction looms over other minerals and gems in the museum’s main hall. The massive trunk stands nine feet tall and weighs four tons. The pre-historic log comes from a rare mineral deposit in ...

That's what the 77-year-old twin brothers have been doing for five years with their Petrified Wood Gallery on the east end of Front Street, a sort of strip mall along U.S. 30 in Ogallala built to look ...