The goal is to revise a 2020 study on the dams’ effects on steelhead and salmon populations. The study considered over a dozen federal dams. It concluded that breaching four lower Snake River ...

The Trump administration is pushing back a review into how dams on the Columbia River system could be operated to benefit endangered salmon and steelhead population, extending a deadline set under ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Two federal agencies have announced plans to update an environmental study on the Columbia and Snake River dams — a move lauded by environmental advocates who say the ...

This upgrade, with an estimated cost between $297 million to $379 million, is meant to help ensure Ladore Dam continues to ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power Administration and Bureau of Reclamation today released the first step of a court-ordered National Environmental Policy Act review of the federal ...

Shown is the Ice Harbor Lock and Dam, the first of four dams constructed as part of the Lower Snake River Project, authorized in the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1945. (Courtesy of Columbia River System ...

BC Hydro has begun work to enable seismic upgrades at Ladore Dam, near Campbell River, marking a major milestone for dam safety projects on Vancouver Island. This upgrade will ensure Ladore Dam ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it could make hydroelectric dams on Oregon’s Willamette River safe for endangered ... hydroelectric dams on the larger Columbia and Snake rivers in the ...

The newly signed legislation follows reporting from Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica that underscored the risks and costs associated with a plan to migrate salmon past hydroelectric dams ...