Ocean salmon fishing season for Marine Area 1 is forecasted to open June 25, and the opening day of fall salmon fishing in the lower Columbia River is slated for Aug. 1 the Washington Department of Fi ...

Canada's Columbia basin contributes some 30 to 40% of the river's total runoff from snow and ice. The future of the northwest fresh water supply, irrigation, fish habitat, and hydropower partly ...

Environmental advocates, tribes and others have pushed to remove the four dams – Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite on the Snake River between Kennewick, Washington ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — Conservationists in the Pacific Northwest want to prevent the extinction of wild salmon and reduce harm to endangered Southern Resident killer whales. And they claim in a federal ...

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Thursday revoking the Columbia River Basin agreement.. The directive nullifies the “Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and Other Native ...

Puget Sound salmon stocks have diminished as population has increased. That’s a fact. This is why Alaska and West Coast Canada have strong orca populations and we don’t.

Early-morning fog Wednesday might be to be the reason severe weather predicted for the Puget Sound and Pierce County areas was not as intense as expected. “Widespread thunderstorms are expected ...

A “historic” deal made two years ago between the U.S. government, four tribes, Northwest states and environmentalists to put legal battles aside and invest in restoring endangered Columbia ...