With "largely encouraging" Chinook and coho forecasts, the West Coast ocean salmon fishing council has adopted options for 2026 seasons off Washington, Oregon and the rest of the coast, and here's ...

ODFW announced this afternoon that the Sandy River from mouth upstream to the Stark Street Bridge will open March 11 from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. for smelt dipping. First time in 50 years of smelt presence ...

The City of Seattle says a settlement reached to relicense its three Skagit River dams includes "substantial commitments to ... comprehensive fish passage and habitat programs, intended to increase ...

A Northwest man with a deeply disturbing criminal record has been sentenced to 43.5 months in prison after pleading guilty to ...

Dogged Seattle TV news investigators are reporting that the operator of three dams on the Skagit River has agreed to spend nearly $1 billion to install fish passage around the North Cascades ...

A bill that will use increased lodging tax revenues to fund Oregon fish and wildlife work has passed the state legislature ...

ODFW and CTUIR are reporting that acquisition of what was to be the first jointly managed state-tribal wildlife has stalled ...

Last night's big news that US District Court Judge Michael Simon ordered federal hydro system operators to spill water at eight mainstem dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers to aid ESA-listed salmon ...

A smelt dipper who says he was surrounded by others taking many more than are allowed makes an impassioned plea for following ...