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 ...

Locating the Columbia River’s remote origins in British Columbia proved difficult. If finding the river’s mouth was difficult, so too was locating the river’s remote origins in British Columbia. It ...

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 ...

An “historic” deal made two years ago between the U.S. government, four tribes, Northwest states and environmentalists to put legal battles aside and invest in restoring endangered Columbia River fish ...

Federal officials on Friday declared portions of the Upper Columbia River a Superfund site after decades of studying, debating and litigating over the pollution that primarily washed downriver from ...

The nations were trying to finalize updates to the 61-year-old Columbia River Treaty governing shared, cross-border water and hydropower management The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a ...

Reflecting the uncertain terms with which the Trump Administration views Canada, the active renegotiations of the long-standing Columbia River Treaty have been stymied in recent months. At the ground ...

Highway 395 overpass crosses West Canal Drive in Kennewick with railroad tracks, Columbia River and Rattlesnake Mountain in the background. Bob Brawdy bbrawdy@tricityherald.com You’d be hard-pressed ...