Washington has approved a one-day smelt-dipping season Thursday on the Cowlitz River. Dipping will be allowed from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. with a 10-pound limit (approximately a quarter of a five-gallon ...

Snowfall has closed Chinook and Cayuse passes on Highway 410 and 123 for the winter season, the Washington State Department of Transportation said on X on Monday morning. The two passes in Mount ...

A Chinook salmon. (Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) A Washington state-based environmental group says it’s filing a petition asking the Biden administration to list southern Alaska king ...

Anglers fishing along the Washington coast will see a lower catch quota for chinook salmon this year even though the total number of fish expected to return is higher. Three ocean salmon-fishing ...

Dec. 8—Southern resident killer whales are federally listed as an "endangered species." In a finding released this week, the National Marine Fisheries Service said similar protections "may be ...

Oregon and Washington state fisheries managers have finalized and announced the recreational spring Chinook salmon season on the Columbia River for 2024. Anglers will get to fish the big river for ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Rivers, the National Marine Fisheries Service today made an initial finding that Endangered Species Act ...

A Washington state task force voted to recommend the return of land at a former youth detention facility to the Chinook Indian Nation. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and the fiscal committees of the ...