The Columbia River Treaty between the U.S. and Canada governs both hydroelectric power and flood control. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files) A stopgap update to the 60-year-old Columbia River ...

This Teck Metals Ltd. smelter in Trail, B.C., sits on a hill above the Columbia River in 2003, a few miles north of the Washington border. The company dumped heavy metals into the Columbia River ...

NCW — A stopgap update to the 60-year-old Columbia River Treaty between the U.S. and Canada upends flood control and hydropower across the river basin. The U.S. Department of State announced the ...

Dec. 13—Federal officials on Friday declared portions of the Upper Columbia River a Superfund site after decades of studying, debating and litigating over the pollution that primarily washed ...

Citizens of the four Columbia River treaty tribes gathered at the base of Willamette Falls in search of Pacific lamprey to harvest on July 12, 2024. (Photo by Nika ...

Average salmon and steelhead counts in the Columbia River Basin over the last decade are still well below officials’ goal of 5 million fish per year. From 2014 to 2023, just 2.3 million salmon ...

Officials are still not close to reaching their goal of returning at least 5 million salmon and steelhead to the Columbia River Basin. However, new data shows a positive trend in total abundance of ...

The agencies will prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement analyzing new environmental data that a 2020 study, which evaluated the operations and maintenance of the 14 federally managed ...

Why Does the Columbia River Basin Need This Program? “Northern pikeminnow are voracious predators,” explained John Hone, a fish biologist. “Reducing their numbers has a direct impact on ...

Lawrence River, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. With the success, the club's walleye stocking program is no longer needed and will not take place in the spring.

The U.S. and Canada are working out key details of the Columbia River Treaty. That important agreement details flood risk management along the mighty Columbia, along with other operations. Now, the ...