On a hillside above the Salmon River, Kyle Smith, his setter, and I stood there and panted. Still catching our breath from the climb, we looked down to see a fish break the water’s surface. The big ...

Water moves through a spillway of the Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River near Almota, Wash. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios) President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered heads of the Army Corps of ...

The December 2025 floods in Washington state heavily damaged the fish habitat here in the Northwest region. It is probable that most chinook, pink salmon and chum eggs laid in the watersheds of the ...

President Biden ordered federal agencies on Wednesday to prioritize restoring wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin, including the Snake River. It is a historic document, reflecting ...

In the face of relentlessly dire headlines for Pacific salmon and steelhead — 28 populations listed as threatened or endangered, emergency fisheries closures in California, Oregon and Washington, ...

Federal officials, the governors of Washington and Oregon, and the leaders of four tribes conducted a ceremonial signing of a $1 billion agreement Friday to fund salmon restoration and clean energy ...

An agreement that has been called a roadmap to breaching the four Snake River dams in Eastern Washington was signed in a Biden White House ceremony Friday, with tribal leaders and the governors of ...

A recent letter to the editor from the IBEW electrical union backs keeping Snake River dams and referenced “efforts of anti-hydropower groups.” I believe this is a misrepresentation of groups that in ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s recent remarks on the Lower Snake River dams and claim that dam removal would be “going backward” ignores decades of research showing that restoring a free-flowing ...

I wholeheartedly agree with the a recent commentary on restoring salmon habitat and the emphasis on unification (“Tulalip gathering signals progress for salmon’s future,” The Herald, Nov. 10). The ...

ENTERPRISE — Starting Friday, Sept. 19, and continuing through Oct. 31, anglers on the Snake River from Hells Canyon Dam downstream to the Oregon/Washington border will not be allowed to keep any wild ...

It has been quiet on the “Breach the Lower Snake River Dams” front. There are facts that should be considered in the billion-dollar pipe dream whether you are for or against these dams. Breaching the ...