You’d be hard-pressed to find a part of the Pacific Northwest that’s more important than the Columbia River basin. Fed by the mighty Columbia and Snake rivers and their many tributaries that ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. —The Trump administration has cut tens of millions of dollars from a key Columbia Basin salmon-restoration ...

The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a keystone management plan that governs flood control, water supply and hydropower in the shared Columbia River Basin as President Donald Trump ...

the Columbia River Basin was teeming with anadromous salmon and steelhead returning from the ocean annually. Jeremy FiveCrows ...

A map showing the extent of the Columbia River basin highlighting the dams in the treaty.

Officials are still not close to reaching their goal of returning at least 5 million salmon and steelhead to the Columbia River Basin. However, new data shows a positive trend in total abundance ...

The Snake River winds more than 1,000 miles from Wyoming ... called the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement (RCBA), between the federal government and the two states and four Tribal nations ...

A map of all Columbia River Basin dams. Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers / Oregon Capital Chronicle Those interim agreements are non-negotiable, according to John Wagner, an ...