January 27, 2025, 11:28am Business
The Washington State Wine Commission hosted a talk Wednesday highlighting research into how wineries around the state can fight the impacts of wildfire smoke on wine grapes. Read story
December 14, 2024, 6:11am Clark County News
A stopgap update to the 60-year-old Columbia River Treaty between the U.S. and Canada upends flood control and hydropower across the river basin. Read story
November 21, 2024, 6:11am Clark County News
A trio of federal agencies are considering whether to pursue additional environmental guidelines for the Columbia River. Read story
November 16, 2024, 6:13am Business
Tim Calhoun operates a small orchard and fruit distribution business about 2 miles off the Yakima River. Walking through rows of apple trees last month as the end of the harvest approached, he explained how he came to run the operation. Read story
November 4, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life
It was just after midnight when the support boat’s rack of lights cut out, leaving Gary Kristensen in near-darkness as he paddled down the Columbia River in a roughly thousand-pound hollowed-out pumpkin. Read story
October 19, 2024, 6:14am Clark County News
Biologist Dave’y Lumley paced the shallow water at the mouth of the Lewis River on an overcast morning late last month. With each step, she carefully scanned the water in front of her, holding two hockey sticklike probes just under the surface. Read story
September 27, 2024, 3:43pm Clark County News
A section of the Historic Columbia River Highway between Wahkeena Falls and Multnomah Falls in Oregon will be closed starting Tuesday through Memorial Day 2025. Read story
September 24, 2024, 6:05am Clark County News
This year’s Pacific lamprey return in the Columbia River is nearly 30 percent lower than the average run in the past 10 years, according to counts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers taken at Bonneville Dam. Read story
September 16, 2024, 11:41am Clark County News
Climate change will cause existing hydroelectric dams to generate more power in the Pacific Northwest and around the lower 48 states in the coming decades. That’s according to projections from an August study by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Richland-based Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Read story
September 7, 2024, 6:14am Clark County Life
Early Labor Day morning, Lynn Rasmussen and her group — The Faux Fur-sters — shed their warm, namesake coats to reveal wetsuits. They approached the open door of Columbia Gorge Sternwheeler, which had paddled a mile from shore into the Columbia River’s shipping channel. Read story