The ruling will determine whether the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe can seek its share of Columbia River Basin fishing rights.

It's not the worst year on record but the stingy winter of 2025-26 left the mountains of the Snake, Salmon and Clearwater basins with a meager snowpack that could portend a busy fire season.

Federal funding shortfalls and staff vacancies are putting the Columbia River Basin’s fish hatcheries — and the salmon and steelhead they produce — at risk, experts warn. The potential fallout could ...

The possibility of removing four Snake River dams — Ice Harbor Dam, Lower Monumental Dam, Little Goose Dam and Lower Granite Dam — has long been a contentious one that has generally split along party ...

Environmental groups and others want to see hydropower operations changed to favor fish survival. Utility groups warn of problems for the power grid A long-running court battle over how to balance ...

At 2:14 a.m. on Thursday, the National Weather Service released a wind advisory valid between 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. for Eastern ...

On Wednesday, Congress will consider a bill that would abruptly halt decades of momentum toward restoring the Columbia River Basin. House Resolution 2073, known as the “Defending our Dams Act,” ...

On Feb. 25, U.S. District Judge Michael Simon issued an order requiring the Columbia Basin dam system to help endangered fish as they begin their migration to the sea in a few days. Praise be! The ...

Washington's fourth straight year of drought is expected to hit some regions hard, but in Grant and Adams counties, the ...

The Columbia River basin consists of several different physiographic regions. There are alpine and subalpine environments in its mountainous regions (the Cascades, Rockies, and related subchains), an ...

Northwest states, tribes and environmental groups will resume suing the federal government over its hydroelectric dam operations in the Columbia River Basin that have harmed endangered native fish ...