On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon ordered federal defendants to change Columbia Basin hydropower operations to protect endangered salmon and steelhead populations.

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 ...

The Trump administration has cut tens of millions of dollars from a key Columbia Basin salmon-restoration program run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a move experts say puts the treasured ...

Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by ...

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

Columbia River salmon recovery programs fared better in the 2026 federal budget than tribes, advocates, bureaucrats and biologists feared. President Donald Trump had made major cuts to the programs in ...