Canada would also receive over $37 million in direct payments from the U.S. under that agreement. A map of all Columbia River Basin dams. (Illustration courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of ...

That could soon all be in jeopardy. open image in gallery President Donald Trump has ended negotiations on the Columbia River Treaty with Canada after claiming that the river’s water could be ...

The Grand Coulee Dam, which straddles the Columbia River, lies just south of the Canada-U.S. border. It was actually built a couple decades prior to the Columbia River Treaty, but it has a massive ...

The U.S. and Canada have fine-tuned that machine since the Columbia River Treaty came into force in 1964. Under the treaty, Canada and the United States share the river’s benefits.

Because Washington shares a 427-mile border with Canada, it is not surprising that President Donald Trump’s bizarre feud with our neighbors to the north has a large impact on our state.

President Donald Trump’s administration has now stopped negotiations to re-up a decades-old U.S.-Canada treaty that controls the flow of the Columbia River between British Columbia after ...