PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon has ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest in order to help salmon, saying the ...

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest to help salmon. U.S.

A day after the first official legal Willamette River spring chinook salmon of 2026 was landed, Oregon and Washington managers approved an early spring season for the lower Columbia River, two days ...

The Sanford Dam Mural and Walkway project team has officially issued a nationwide Call for Artists, inviting professional muralists to help commemorate the May 2020 dam failures and the extraordinary ...

Oregon and Washington State fisheries managers followed the staff recommendations and anglers will get 39 days to fish the main stem Columbia River for spring Chinook this season. The spring Chinook ...

The judge finds that the Trump administration’s plans for the massive structures would harm salmon runs that are “disappearing from the landscape.” ...

A one-day retention season for sturgeon was held on Monday in the Columbia River’s Bonneville Pool, and although anglers did catch the lion’s share of the catch quota, they did not blow past the quota ...

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered dams that operate on the Columbia and Snake rivers to generate less hydropower and allow more water to pass in an effort to keep salmon populations from dying out ...