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Carter Caves kicks off Winter Adventure Weekend
Just about anything you ever wanted to try in the outdoors, you can learn next weekend as Carter Caves State Resort Park hosts its inaugural Winter Adventure Weekend with 77 different trips featuring cave tours of all types, rappelling, ziplining, hiking, canoeing, winter survival classes, technical tree climbing and exploring natural bridges.
State parks, resorts offering special events, deals for sweethearts
Take a look at all the love going on at state park lodges and you'd think Lincoln's birthday is bringing sexy back. The former president's birthday kicks off the President's Day holiday weekend, which also happens to include Valentine's Day on Sunday. The region's state parks have you covered with well-timed getaway weekends filled with dinner, shows and the best of the great outdoors.
2010 Vancouver Olympics
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Nominate 2009's top citizens
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How you can help Haiti
National and local organizations are raising funds to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
MU Back to School
Whether you are an incoming freshman or a veteran at Marshall, there are a few things you should know about the upcoming weeks. Check here for more.
Marshall Plane Crash
Check here to find original stories, photo galleries, victim information and coverage of the filming of the 2006 movie "We Are Marshall."
100 Years of History
A look back at 100 years of Tri-State history through The Herald-Dispatch. Ten of the biggest stories of the last 100 years in our area, as voted on by readers, plus hundreds of photos.
Purchase a photo reprint
Our professional photographers are always out and about in the Tri-State. If you know of an image you would like to purchase, click here to fill out the form.
Bride Guide 2010
Need advice on planning your upcoming nuptials? Check out the Bride Guide, which includes a rich list of possible wedding reception sites, sorted by seating limits.
Tri-State Visitors' Guide
Check out great shopping, dining, lodging and other entertainment opportunities in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky.
Tri-State's Most Wanted
The Herald-Dispatch's “Tri-State’s Most Wanted” list has featured several fugitives since June 2006, many of whom have been captured.
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Birthdays and Babies
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More Outdoors
FRANKFORT, Ky. — USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is accepting applications for the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP)
FRANKFORT, Ky. — With most other hunting seasons over, many hunters turn to small game at this time of year. Kentucky’s rabbit and quail populations have both declined due to large-scale changes in agriculture
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Often portrayed as villains of cartoons and the Wild West, coyotes are no laughing matter to Kentucky’s livestock farmers. “Kentucky Afield” television will address the risks and effective measures to deal with coyotes this weekend on KET.
DAVIS, W.Va. -- It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia hunters harvested 1,828 black bears during the combined 2009 archery and firearms seasons
PINEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Eastern Kentucky residents are complaining about elk becoming a nuisance more than a decade after state officials began reintroducing the to the area.
CHARLESTON — Preliminary figures for the 2009 fall turkey hunting season show a harvest of 1,244 turkeys. This is slightly higher than the 1,206 turkeys checked in during the 2008 fall season.
CHARLESTON — Preliminary counts of game checking tags indicate West Virginia hunters harvested a total of 154,524 white-tailed deer during the recently completed bucks-only, antlerless, muzzleloader, archery and youth/Class Q deer seasons.
CHARLESTON — Everything you ever wanted to learn about fishing and hunting, you can this weekend as the Charleston Civic Center hosts the West Virginia Trophy Hunters Association’s 22nd annual West Virginia Hunting and Fishing Show at the Charleston Civic Center through Sunday, Jan. 24.
The Wilds offers Winter Safari Tours through March. The tours begin with a light lunch and short conservation program presented by an experienced program staff member. After lunch, visitors board a heated Safari Transport for a guided safari tour experience through the winter landscape. View large groups of animals, such as the Sichuan takin, Pere David's deer, Przewalski's wild horse, American bison, and many more, as they roam in the open pasture in their winter coats.
Slide it on over French Creek Freddie and Buckeye Chuck, there's a sure sign of spring leaving a long shadow on the Tri-State next weekend.
Places to go: Boston Mills and Brandywine Ski Resorts
The Boston Mills and Brandywine Ski Resorts are owned by Peak Resorts and are located about five minutes apart in northeast Ohio not far from Cleveland. The resorts feature a variety of skiing, snowboarding and snowtubing opportunities in addition to special events.
While this week’s arctic winds are making life more difficult now, our current conditions should make for better fishing in the future.
OLIVE HILL, Ky. — Carter Caves State Resort Park will present a weekend of hiking, canoeing, cave tours, winter survival and other adventures with its first Winter Adventure Weekend Jan. 29-31.
With more than 200,000 skiers and snowboarders coming to West Virginia's five downhill ski resorts to carve the fresh powder over the holidays, the state got a great start to the season.
