Hood River’s Kiteboard 4 Cancer festival kicks off July 8. Project Koru’s mission in hosting this three-day event is to harness the power of t…

It has been 42 years since a few doctors from Yale visited Lyme, Conn., to examine 60 children who were suffering oddly with joint pain, only to coin a name for an apparently new illness called “Lyme arthritis” (although the bacterium has been around for at least a thousand years).

Ahhhhhh, summertime! Everyone is coming out of hibernation.