U.S. News Insider Tip: After a morning hike in the gorge, stop for a late lunch and soft serve at Sugarpine Drive-In on your way back to Portland. Owned by former Portland/Brooklyn chefs Emily Cafazzo ...

The levee system along the Columbia River in Multnomah County could be in for an overhaul under a local bond measure in the upcoming primary. Measure 26-243 asks voters to invest up to $150 million to ...

Appreciate the Columbia River Gorge’s natural splendor while catching some wind and waves on the water, hiking to waterfalls, or cycling through rocky tunnels. Refresh yourself at a Nordic-style ...

With the days getting longer and the warmer, people are gearing up for an exciting season of fishing all the way till the end of fall. Tri-Cities offers an incredible number of places to go fishing ...

Gillnetters repair a net in Astoria, Ore. A bill before the Washington Senate would eliminate nontribal gillnetting on the lower Columbia River. Files/The Columbian Now equipped with Washington Gov.

The Tri-Cities chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute is reviving its public lecture series with a free program Nov. 4 p.m. in Richland on the changing Columbia River System over millions of years.

Right now, it can seem as if every fishing boat in the Northwest is at Drano Lake, circling the Toilet Bowl for spring Chinook. But there is another hot bite in the Gorge that is not getting as much ...

Stewart Rood receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Alberta Environment and Parks, and has received funding from BC Hydro, the Kootenai Tribe ...

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 ...

Summer chinook salmon, sockeye and steelhead fishing has opened on sections of the Columbia River through July 31 from the Astoria-Megler Bridge to U.S. Highway 395 Bridge at Pasco and from Richland ...

Update: The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team recovered the body at Wintler Park at about 7:15 p.m. Monday. A 52-year-old man went missing Sunday night after swimming into the Columbia River ...

The sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also known as red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers ...