WDFW is laying off staffers for 29 positions, not filling many of 170 vacancies, shutting down a hatchery, closing a popular steelhead fishery next year and is being forced to let a predator ...

Mid- to late June 2025 sockeye, steelhead, Chinook, sturgeon, walleye and shad catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Willamette below the falls.

A bill that would hike the cost of most Washington fishing and hunting licenses by 38 percent narrowly passed out of the Senate today. With a 25-24 roll-call vote, Substitute Senate Bill 5583 now ...

More details emerged this morning about "exceptionally low" elk calf survival rates in Washington's Blue Mountains, where it's increasingly clear cougars are taking a lion-sized bite out of the herd.

WDFW crews report potentially worrisome catches on southern Lake Washington this week: a small northern pike, and salmon fry in the belly of American shad.

A mother rescued her 5-year-old son after a coyote bit and pulled him to the ground and attempted to haul the child toward a greenbelt in Renton on New Year’s Eve, Washington wildlife officials said.

Oregon’s 2021 big game and the forecast for deer and elk hunters span the gamut, with solid prospects in some areas and less-so ones elsewhere.

Columbia fall salmon season dates, hatchery-Chinook-only retention periods, September river closures, a new boundary line for a super popular fishery near the mouth of the Lewis. All that and more is ...

The 2023 northern pikeminnow sport-reward season will go down as “a really solid year,” and one that produced a six-figure payday for an angler for only the third time in the 30-plus-year history of ...

THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM KING COUNTY NATURAL RESOURCES AND PARKS. Seven years after a catastrophic decline in the number of adult kokanee salmon returning from Lake Sammamish put the ...

The second of ODFW's three Free Fishing Weekends of the year is coming up June 7-8, a time when you can catch trout, go crabbing, or attend a family fishing event without a license.

A pair of bills that would increase the price of most Washington fishing and hunting licenses by 38 percent and bring back the Columbia River endorsement have passed out of budget committees in ...