WASHINGTON – Fifty years ago in June, elected officials gathered in Lewiston to celebrate a remarkable feat: With 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 ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered heads of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Energy, Interior and Commerce departments to pull out of Biden-era agreements intended to halt litigation ...

Snake River sockeye salmon travel nearly 900 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Sawtooth Valley lakes in Idaho. NOAA ...

About 750,000 sockeye crossed the Bonneville Dam, on the Columbia River between the US states of Oregon and Washington, this summer, with salmon runs in neighboring states like Idaho reaching ...

On the banks of the Snake River in far eastern Washington, sockeye salmon have had a rough summer. The water behind the last major concrete dam they have to swim past is way too hot.

This is the second summer in four years the state agency has trapped sockeye from the Lower Granite Dam because of high temperatures.

Hot water temperatures could hinder this year’s record sockeye salmon migration up the Okanogan River into Canadian lakes.

Better dam management has led to a record sockeye salmon run, but now hot Columbia River waters in WA could threaten their migration.

Merle Shuyler of Goldendale shows an average-sized sockeye salmon caught on the mid-Columbia last week. With over 400,000 of the good-eating salmon returning to the Columbia River system, there ...

LEWISTON – The promising start to the Snake River sockeye run appears to have melted away as the adult fish progressed upstream.