The nations were trying to finalize updates to the 61-year-old Columbia River Treaty governing shared, cross-border water and ...

You’d be hard-pressed to find a part of the Pacific Northwest that’s more important than the Columbia River basin. Fed by the mighty Columbia and Snake rivers and their many tributaries that ...

The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a keystone management plan that governs flood control, water supply and ...

the Columbia River Basin was teeming with anadromous salmon and steelhead returning from the ocean annually. Jeremy FiveCrows, communications director for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish ...

Recent ocean conditions and a strong El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific in 2024 indicate that Chinook salmon returns to ...

The Columbia River Basin and the dams within it generate 40% of the United States’ hydropower, irrigate $8 billion in crops and carry 42 million tons of commercial cargo every year. A map of all ...

Earlier this year, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council announced it had fallen more than halfway short of its longtime goal of 5 million fish returning to the Columbia River Basin each year.

The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a keystone management plan that governs flood control, water supply and hydropower in the shared Columbia River Basin as President Donald Trump ...