The Colville Confederated Tribes’ successful effort to hold a British Columbia smelter accountable for dumping pollutants into the Columbia River for a century has caught the atten...

The Colville Confederated Tribes of Washington State are savoring a court victory that has been a long time in the making: In mid-September, British Columbia–based Teck Resources L...

Treaty fishing rights are meaningless if there are no healthy fish populations left to harvest, say Pacific Northwest tribes, fishers and tribal environmental organizations...

PORTLAND, Oregon—Toxic shampoo residue. Pharmaceuticals. Scary-sounding names like triclosan, Trimethoprim and polybrominated diphenyl ether...

CASCADE LOCKS, Oregon –- Predatory male sea lions have set up camp at bottlenecked fish ladders at the base of the Bonneville Dam in the mid-Columbia River basin...

DALLESPORT, Washington—When the gates of the Dalles Dam on the Columbia River east of the Cascades slammed shut in 1957 tribal peoples watched in stunned disbelief, as the waters a...

The Vancouver, Washington-based Columbia Land Trust has acquired some 560 acres near the mouth of the Columbia River that will become permanently protected riverside habitat for fi...

PORTLAND, Ore.—Portland is an environmentally-friendly city, a scenic city, with Mt...

The Chief Joseph Dam Bridgeport, WA—It’s taken over half a century to get the process started, but ground has finally been broken on a salmon hatchery at Chief Joseph Dam...

The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation will get their day in court on September 10 against Teck Resources, a Canadian smelter that over the course of a century dumped ...