Gen. Brice Disque (1879-1960) began his career in the Philippines and rose through the enlisted ranks to captain before leaving the Army. He arrived in Portland in the fall of 1917 to lead the Spruce ...

Sitka & Spruce opened in the spring of 2006 in a tiny space in an Eastlake strip mall, right next door to a Subway. Everybody fell in love with Matt Dillon's simple, clear, lovely flavors. Sauces were ...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — A spruce aphid outbreak detected earlier this year around Yachats on the central Oregon coast is prompting the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) to assess the spread of damage ...

It breaks my heart to see Oregon's champion Sitka spruce give up the ghost. It was inevitable, I suppose. After all, everything dies. I just wish it had died after me. The massive, 750-year-old tree ...

If Joe Hitselberger had his way, he'd make only one beer at Wolf Tree Brewery. "Like Orval," he says. "They just make one beer." The beer he'd make? It's nothing like Orval, the legendary Belgian ...

Every year, between 150 and 200 Sitka spruce logs cut from Southeast Alaska forests are barged south to a small company in Concrete, Wash., where they begin their transformation into acoustic guitars ...

A little piece of Alaska has helped create some of the music industry’s biggest hits. Sitka spruce is a prized “tonewood” used to make guitars and violins. But one guitar company is pushing back and ...

I finally took time to visit Oregon's new champion, Big Spruce in It's a whopper! It became the biggest Sitka Spruce in 2007 when the Klootchy Creek Spuce near Seaside lost its upper half in a wind ...

Four years ago, Chef Matt Dillon opened Sitka & Spruce in a nondescript Eastlake storefront. The décor was rudimentary; tables were few, seating mostly communal. If you ate at the counter, you had to ...

Two major spruces are found in the western forests of the United States. Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) is found throughout the Rocky Mountains, from Alberta to Arizona. It’s named after George ...

When a James Beard award-winning chef judges his influential, beloved first restaurant no longer sustainable, it feels like the Seattle scene is suddenly going sideways, and here we are: Matt Dillon ...