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 ...

At 1,243 miles long, the Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest with its tributaries, wetlands and estuaries reaching six U.S. states. (Bonnie Moreland /Courthouse News) PORTLAND ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anyone who has fished for American shad on the Delaware River for any length of time knows shad numbers are not what they once ...

Anyone who has fished for American shad on the Delaware River for any length of time knows shad numbers are not what they once were. In fact, populations of the anadromous fish are down in almost ...

A day after the first official legal Willamette River spring chinook salmon of 2026 was landed, Oregon and Washington ...

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 ...

FAIRVIEW, Ore. — A man's body was recovered from the Columbia River on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. River patrol deputies with the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office recovered the body in a ...

A man's body was recovered from the Columbia River on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. River patrol deputies pulled the body from the water near Camas, ...

More than 500 people jumped into the Columbia River on Saturday during the annual Polar Plunge fundraiser for Special Olympics Washington. The Tri-Cities Polar Plunge and 5K run was Saturday morning ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted an environmental approval last month to a project to dredge a 1,000-foot-wide deep water ship turn around in the Columbia River near the Port of Kalama and ...

Washington and Oregon will not have to build a bridge with a movable span to accommodate tall marine vessels when replacing the aging Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River, the U.S. Coast ...