Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

Columbia River navigators are growing worried as a project to put a 100-mile power transmission line under the river charges ahead without offering ways to mitigate its impacts on the industry.

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.

Negotiations over the Columbia River basin could affect the environment in Canada and electrical generation and flood control in the United States. Negotiations of a 60-year-old treaty between Canada ...

In a recent column for this paper, utility leaders Scott Simms and Chris Robinson highlighted the importance of the U.S.-Canada Columbia River Treaty for the entire Northwest. As advocates for ...

CLATSOP SPIT — For most of the past two years, Jesse Allen has worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week operating a crane to move sedan-sized boulders miles out into the mouth of the Columbia River.

The four-lane bridge that stretches across the river from downtown Columbia to West Columbia is dauntingly narrow. Is it wide ...

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.