Dan Lay hollered as he revved up his wake boat and steered it up the Willamette River under Portland’s Broadway Bridge. “Here we go!” he yelled.

A toxic algae bloom is seen at the Ross Island Lagoon on the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Sean Meagher/The Oregonian.

It’s gotten so bad, Oregon could propose regulations that would require riverside cities, ... A shopping cart bobs near the shore of the Willamette River in Portland, Ore., on May 29, 2024.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Dry river beds are becoming more common during this late summer drought in the Pacific Northwest. Oregon sees severe drought amid September dry stretch Parts of the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Big Float, an annual summer celebration on the Willamette River in Portland, is back this July for its tenth and final year. Willie Levenson is the ringleader of the Human ...

A Portland woma will try to swim a 24.6-miles down the river from the mouth of the Clackamas River in Oregon City to the Columbia at Kelley Point Park.

Finally, even though Portland is some 85 miles inland of the Pacific, the tides cause a roughly 2-foot rise and fall in the Willamette’s level every day—though it would be a stretch to call ...