Fifty years ago in June, elected officials gathered in Lewiston to celebrate a remarkable feat: With the completion of the Lower Snake River dams, a $1 billion project had effectively turned the ...

The dams’ average output is 940MW, enough electricity to power Seattle, for example, for a year. At capacity, the dams will ...

Tenders tie up at the processor’s docks, where a tube sucks salmon out of the hold and pumps them into a room-sized vat of ...

It’s a big weekend at the Ballard Locks as sockeye salmon return as part of their journey upstream to spawn in Lake Washington.

Both sockeye salmon and steelhead returning to the Columbia River Basin are prone to yo-yo-like patterns. Even years tend to see higher abundance and odd years tend to see lower numbers.

An adult Snake River sockeye is released in Redfish Lake in this 2010 picture. This year’s Columbia River sockeye numbers are stacking up to fall short of last year’s record return. Idaho Fish ...

The Russian River Sanctuary was opened by emergency order this week as the run is projected to meet the escapement goal. Sockeye fishing on the Kasilof River “has been good.” The department doubled ...

Re: “Trump preserved the Snake River dams. It will benefit the Northwest” (June 27, Opinion): President Donald Trump neither preserved the Snake River dams by abandoning the Resilient Columbia ...

RICHLAND, Wash - The sockeye salmon fishing limits along the Hanford Reach and Upper Columbia River have been reduced due to a decrease in the run size, according to the Washington Department of ...

For the ninth year in a row, the State Department of Fish and Game has opened the Russian River Sanctuary Area to sockeye fishing early in response to strong runs. The sanctuary, a small area of the ...