About a week after that, he named the big river for his 83-foot long ship, Columbia Rediviva. Incidentally, a replica of has sailed the waters of Disneyland since 1958. RELATED: How Washington got ...

A new map of burns caused by the Eagle Creek fire in the Columbia River Gorge shows about 7,300 acres were highly burned and 14,600 acres were moderately burned. That leaves about 26,850 acres ...

The Columbia River was an energetic, mile-wide, 500-feet-deep fury of white water rapids that carried boulders and cobbles all the way from northeastern Washington to the Pacific Ocean.