LIND, Wash. – When he was in high school, Grady Gfeller had a dream: to compete in his town’s combine demolition derby, a Mad Max-style jamboree of smashing farm equipment together for the fun of it.

LIND, Washington — In New Mexico, people tend to sort themselves by red and green, based on the kind of chile they prefer to eat. On the wheat farms of eastern Washington, folks divide into red and ...

Wind on the Palouse is relentless. It’s been that way since the last ice age, a million years or more. It’s the wind that made this place, and the hills that comprise the 19,000-square-mile region of ...

This weekend, Tyler Sawyer spent at lot of time and sweat preparing a vehicle for the combine demolition derby at the Hillsdale County Fair. Sunday night, he walked away with a consolation prize and ...

READLYN, Iowa (AP) -- There's a band called Smashing Pumpkins so why not an event for smashing combines? Why not indeed, thought Ron Leistikow, who has organized a combine demolition derby for June 20 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- Officials at the Hawkeye Downs Fair in Cedar Rapids hope to make the combine demolition derby a yearly feature at the eastern Iowa fair. The first-ever combine demolition ...

There are plenty of summer events around the state that offer entertainment that is, well, exotic from a Seattle standpoint. If you’re looking for off-beat and off-the-beaten-track entertainment, you ...

Sheriff Dave Westrick again participated in the combine demolition derby held Sunday evening at the Defiance County Fair. The combine derby is the fair's second-most popular event, first introduced ...

The first time metal hit metal with a resounding crunch, punctuated with the crowd's roar and collective raising of beer cans and high-fiving hands, I knew I'd made the right choice of Saturday ...