The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources took on the Columbia River’s salmon-eating sea lion problem in a nearly 2½-hour hearing Wednesday.

Crimson pools, emerald streaks, and flashes of gold shimmer under the tropical sun. This is Caño Cristales, the fabled “River of Five Colors,” and for decades it was almost completely unknown outside ...

The Martin family disappeared in December 1958, after telling friends and family they were looking for Christmas greenery in the Columbia River Gorge. An undated provided photo shows the tailgate of a ...

An angler shows off a big hatchery steelhead taken on the Cowlitz River. While hatchery winter steelhead are tough to forecast, the wild return of Columbia River winter steelhead is expected to be ...