You’d be hard-pressed to find a part of the Pacific Northwest that’s more important than the Columbia River basin. Fed by the mighty Columbia and Snake rivers and their many tributaries that ...

President Donald Trump said Monday that he ordered the U.S. military to divert water from the Pacific Northwest to Southern ...

(KOIN) — The Columbia River’s first federally ... protect the threatened and endangered salmon that inhabit the river and its tributaries. In mid-March, Portlanders documented dozens of ...

In 2024, 121,000 adult spring chinook bound for tributaries upstream of Bonneville Dam returned to the Columbia River. That’s a number large enough to provide fisheries but they tended to come ...