The Columbia River is critical for fish, energy, commerce and identity. But it faces an uncertain future. How much more can ...

The nation’s new energy secretary is “passionately in support” of leaving the four lower Snake River dams in Eastern ...

At the beginning of 2025, a new tragedy struck the Pacific Northwest’s endangered Southern Resident orca population. Tahlequah, a mother orca known scientifically as J35, made national headlines for c ...

Large dams are no longer being built in the U.S. In fact, they are being removed, especially in the Northwest, with a 100% success rate in improving fish runs. | Opinion ...

Federal agencies will take a new look at the findings of a four-year, $55 million federal study completed in 2020 that rejected calls to tear down the four lower Snake River dams. A coalition of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — As environmental activists push for closure of multiple dams along the Snake River in Washington state, agricultural exporters and farmers become more concerned. “Currently ...

it sometimes attracts hundreds of students from Washington State University in Pullman and the University of Idaho in Moscow to its sandy beach along the Snake River downstream from Lower Granite Dam.

A 70-year-old serving time for child sex abuse died in Oregon’s Snake River Correctional Institution on Wednesday.Richard ...