On a fall morning, the sun shone through the trees in Clemens Park, about a half-hour drive southwest of Corvallis. Leaves crunched under boots. The air was crisp, cold and earthy. A group of sixth ...

The Columbia River Basin once sustained 10 to 16 million salmon and steelhead annually. Today, over a third of those ...

Chinook salmon swim up a creek in Washington state. (Getty Images) Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a four-part series on salmon that will run in the Idaho Capital Sun today, Wednesday, ...

Conservationists and the state of Oregon have asked a federal court to approve changes to dam operations on the lower Snake and Columbia Rivers to help restore salmon populations.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Known for its diverse runs of salmon, the Columbia River draws thousands of anglers to test their luck each year. But with salmon runs nowhere near what they once were, fishing is ...

OTIS, Oregon — The Salmon River Hatchery is shutting down after decades of operation, leaving big questions for the river, local businesses and the people who depend on both. The hatchery has been a ...

We are the circle. That’s what life is all about. We take care of one another. So when we have someone in trouble, that’s when the rest of us have to step in. – Elmer Crow, Nez Perce tribal elder The ...