Explore the Columbia River: its map, rich history from Native Americans to pioneers, impressive length, and facts about its ...

Less than a month after President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum revoking a Biden-era agreement regarding the ...

Explore the Snake River: its map, rich history from Native Americans to pioneers, impressive length, and facts about Hells ...

New report comes as Washington is in drought, the already-low snowpack is quickly melting and once-rare toxic algae blooms ...

The Vancouver-berthed American Empress, now in its second year of weeklong Columbia and Snake river cruises, has sold out most of its 223-passenger capacity for its runs from mid-July to mid-October.

Bernert Barge Lines, a family operation that has served the Columbia, Snake and Willamette rivers since 1887, operates four boats. They haul mostly sand, gravel, wood chips, logs and scrap metal.

This year, the four Columbia River treaty tribes — Yakama, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Nez Perce — developed the Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative.It was a response to a long slog through ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – Two federal agencies have announced plans to update an environmental study on the Columbia and Snake River dams — a move lauded by environmental advocates who say the new ...

On Sept. 20, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission voted to close all fall steelhead fishing on the Clearwater River and part of the Snake, tributaries of the Columbia, because so few fish had ...

The Snake River basin once generated nearly half the salmon produced in the Columbia watershed, but the journey out and back to Idaho has proved so arduous that all of the river’s wild salmon ...

The Columbia River is the third largest grain export gateway in the world behind only the Mississippi and Brazil’s Paraná.

The bounty program that pays anglers for turning in northern pikeminnow caught on the Columbia and Snake Rivers opens for the 2025 season on Thursday, May 1. Recreational anglers earn up to $10 ...