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• Girl presumed drowned in Columbia at Wenatchee

  May 29, 2012 in Region WENATCHEE — A 13-year-old girl is missing and presumed drowned in the Columbia River at Wenatchee.

• One person missing in Columbia River boating accident

  May 28, 2012 in City VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Two adults have been rescued and one juvenile male is still missing after their recreational boat sank on the Columbia River in Camas, Wash.

• Judge bars Teck ‘divisibility’ bid

  April 9, 2012 in Idaho on Page A6 The Colville Tribes and the state of Washington won a victory in a pretrial phase of a lawsuit against Teck Resources for dumping millions of tons of smelter slag into …

• Landers: TV hunting host fined; Walleye bounty proposed - Oh my!

  March 22, 2012 in Sports, Outdoors on Page B1 Steelheading streams are off color and the wild turkey hunting season is still more than three weeks off. With a little breather in the action, let’s play the field today, … 2

• Northern pike forecast: few and far between

  February 12, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C12 The hammer is about to come down on northern pike that have invaded the Pend Oreille River. Non-native pike will never be eradicated from the river’s Box Canyon Reservoir, Washington … 2

• Hanford tower taken down during cleanup

  January 15, 2012 in City, Region on Page B2 RICHLAND – A guard tower that stood over the Columbia River at Hanford for half a century came crashing to the ground Wednesday. “It’s really an iconic symbol of Hanford …

• Field reports: State Parks staff to be cut 30 percent

  December 11, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C11 PUBLIC LANDS – Nearly a third of Washington’s year-round state parks staffers are being notified this week they likely will be laid off as a result of lagging sales of …

• Sea lions raid Columbia, grow taste for sturgeon

  November 20, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C11 Sea lion predation on sturgeon in the Columbia River at Bonneville Dam increased for the sixth straight year in 2011 with more than 3,000 estimated killed. Monitors for the U.S. … 1

• Angler nets $66K from Pikeminnow Reward Program

  November 13, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C11 Talk about a down economy: Even the pikeminnow anglers are seeing their earnings decline. Nikolay N. Zaremskiy of Gresham, Ore., is the top earner for 2011 in the northern pikeminnow … 1

• Study: Summer water supply to dwindle

  September 7, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 Population growth will ramp up demand for water in arid Eastern Washington over the next 20 years, even as climate change alters flows in the Columbia River and its tributaries, … 1

• Hanford cleanup safety doubts raised

  August 14, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 LOS ANGELES – The Energy Department has asserted that Bechtel Corp. underplayed safety risks from equipment it is installing at the nation’s largest nuclear waste cleanup project, according to government … 5

• Anglers question Yakama Tribe fishing platforms at Drano Lake

  July 3, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C10 COOK, Wash. — Tribal fishermen have built about a dozen platforms off the Columbia River along Drano Lake, a move likely to spark conflict with long-standing non-Indian salmon and steelhead … 1

• Expert: Columbia River has peaked

  June 26, 2011 in City on Page B2 LONGVIEW, Wash. – Even as heavy snowpack in the mountains continues to melt, the worst of the Columbia River flooding has passed, a forecaster says. Worries of serious flooding increased …

• Colville Tribes call Teck smelter study ‘deficient’

  May 15, 2011 in City on Page B3 Five years after a Canadian mining smelter agreed in a historic settlement to assess the impact of its pollution on U.S. waters, an American Indian tribe is calling the effort … 1

• Lawyers argue salmon numbers

  May 10, 2011 in City on Page A6 PORTLAND – In what is likely the final major hearing before a federal judge decides what must be done to make Columbia River dams safe for salmon, lawyers argued Monday … 1

• Hanford nuclear plant shut down for refueling

  May 4, 2011 on Page A6 RICHLAND – Workers at the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant are nearly midway through the longest refueling outage in the 26-year history of the plant, which has come under …

• Spring drawdown bares shores of Lake Roosevelt

  April 24, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C10 Getting to a spot for shore fishing along Lake Roosevelt this week is much like hiking across the Sahara Desert. Vast expanses of sand, mud and rocks are being exposed … 1

• Pike prompt three surveys on PDO River

  April 17, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C9 Three northern pike studies that involve gillnetting fish are scheduled this spring on the Pend Oreille River by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Kalispel Tribe. The …

• Caldwell: Bonneville power plan creates buzz in industry

  April 10, 2011 in Business on Page E1 Moan as we might, and do, about the windy, wet spring weather, our troubles are small compared with those facing the Bonneville Power Administration. Last June, an unexpected confluence of … 6

• Okanogan Valley Guide Services caters to fishermen in any weather

  March 13, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 People who wait for perfect weather miss a lot of good fishing,” said Jerrod Gibbons, blowing warm breath on his numb fingers Tuesday after releasing a bright, fat steelhead in …

• Landers: Sockeye comeback impressive

  December 30, 2010 in Sports on Page B1 Sockeye salmon lived large in 2010, posting record or near-record runs in rivers such as the Columbia and beyond. Seeing the fish get their legs back, at least temporarily, gives …

• WSU economist to study Columbia, Snake closures

  December 3, 2010 in City on Page A8 YAKIMA – Washington State University plans to study the impact of closing navigation locks on the Columbia and Snake rivers this winter. Ken Casavant, a professor of economics and director …

• Court halts sea lion killing at Columbia River dam

  November 23, 2010 in Region Sea lions that have faced death by lethal injection for making banquets of endangered fish in the Columbia River won a reprieve today when a federal appeals court told Oregon … 4

• Upper Columbia pollution under study

  November 21, 2010 in Idaho on Page B2 A massive study of industrial pollution in the upper Columbia River is wrapping up its second year of sampling. Researchers have tested 2,300 fish above Grand Coulee Dam for lead, …

• Multiyear study of Teck pollution continues

  November 20, 2010 in News, Region A massive study of industrial pollution in the upper Columbia River is wrapping up its second year of sampling.

• Northwest tribes want input on Columbia River Treaty

  November 16, 2010 in Idaho on Page A6 Native people want a say in the future of the Columbia River Treaty, an accord between U.S. and Canada that governs power generation and flood control along the 1,200-mile river. …

• States raise concerns about sturgeon

  November 7, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C11 Legal-size sturgeon in the lower Columbia River appear to be at their lowest number since the early 1990s and sport-fishing success its poorest in 20 years. Upstream in Idaho, fish …

• Energy Department wants to remove Hanford reactor

  October 19, 2010 in Region A key Department of Energy report is recommending that the K East Reactor be torn down rather than put into long-term storage like most of Hanford’s other reactors.

• Five-year plan to clean Columbia basin toxins

  September 24, 2010 in Idaho on Page A8 State, federal and tribal leaders pledged support Thursday for restoring Columbia River watersheds through programs that reduce toxic compounds in the water. The nation’s fourth-largest river basin contains mercury, PCBs, …

• Columbia, Snake locks will close for repairs

  September 8, 2010 in Business on Page A8 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start shutting down all eight locks on the Columbia and Snake rivers in December for repair work, with the last scheduled to reopen …

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