The Northwest Power Planning Council was formed in 1981 in response to concerns in the area about the future availability of ...

A December report from the Northwest Power and Conservation Council shows a rolling 10-year average return of 2.3 million ...

According to my calculations, there are 43 days left before spring officially arrives. And there are only 37 days until ...

In his Jan. 18 Lewiston Tribune letter, John Hull accuses Marvin Dugger of reaching a wrong conclusion and using “outdated data” concerning the harmful effects of dams on anadromous fish. In the ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, four dams were placed on the lower Snake River as key final pieces of a “great national project”—started in the 1930s with building of the Bonneville Dam on the ...

The conservation of one of the richest wild salmon spawning grounds in America is under the guidance of an alliance most people have never heard of.

A summer spent fishing was lucrative for one angler who earned a record amount of just more than $164,000 for turning in the ...

In 2024, 121,000 adult spring chinook bound for tributaries upstream of Bonneville Dam returned to the Columbia River. That’s a number large enough to provide fisheries but they tended to come ...

Forecasts for salmon fishing in the Columbia River in 2025 is out. Overall, the news is good. The only exception is the summer Chinook run.