As the nation’s top apple producer, Washington is best known for varieties such as Gala, Honeycrisp, Granny Smith, Fuji, and Red Delicious. But across small orchards and family homesteads, antique ...

Aaron Clark, a vice president for Price Warehouse & Cold Storage, focuses on hiring local workers for apple harvests grown on some 3,500 acres of central Washington orchard lands, which include this ...

The line of hungry Washington State University students and faculty numbered more than 50 well before Jeremy Tamsen had ...

In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 12, 2016, a box of Cosmic Crisp apples is shown at Washington State University’s Tree Fruit Research & Extension Center in Wenatchee, Wash. The apple is a brand new ...

Rep. Gloria Mendoza (R-Grandview) testified in Olympia before the House Postsecondary Education and Workforce Committee ...

A new bill in the Washington senate would require Washington State University to establish a heritage orchard program.

TONASKET, Okanogan County – Ever since Eve bit the forbidden fruit, apples have held a certain mystique. They say that one a day keeps the doctor away. Billions per year keep Washington farms hopping.

Lawmakers in Olympia are evaluating a new initiative to preserve rare and historic apple varieties still found on small family farms.

Washington's apple growers are looking for new markets to make up for the expected loss of business after Mexico, their biggest customer, imposed tariffs on purchases, a top trade official said.