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 ...

Here, among the northern reaches of the Columbia Basin, humanity’s knack for the extraction of Earth’s resources was on full display. The sound of the explosion quickly reached the onlookers ...

Prior to the influx of colonial settlers in the mid-19th century and the eventual development of large dams blocking fish passageway along the river, the Columbia River Basin was teeming with ...

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 ...

That year’s indicators are important because Chinook salmon spend two or more years in the ocean before returning to the Columbia Basin, Hager explained. The projections mirror predictions that ...

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 ...

The two species of freshwater snail were once widespread throughout the Columbia Basin in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. But the snails have disappeared from Montana and are now living in ...

The Northwest Athletic Conference men’s and women’s basketball championships began Wednesday on the Pasco campus of Columbia Basin College. Thirty-two teams — 16 men’s squads and 16 women ...