For years, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have worked on fish tags to monitor salmon. Those original tags weighed around 2 grams, less than what a penny weighs. Now, new ...

Dams in the Pacific Northwest are “hydropower assets” resulting in electricity prices well below the national average, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said last week. Wright spoke while touring Ice ...

PORTLAND, Ore.(AP) — Conservationists and the state of Oregon have asked a federal court to approve changes to dam operations on the lower Snake and Columbia Rivers to help restore salmon populations, ...

Environmental and recreation groups represented by the Earthjustice law firm are seeking a preliminary injunction, asking a federal judge to order the government to take emergency measures to protect ...

Two major dams in King Count, have done their jobs to protect western Washington state and remained stable Wednesday, despite an intense series of atmospheric river events that breached levees, ...

President Trump’s energy secretary plans his first official visit to the Hanford nuclear site, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Ice Harbor Dam since he was confirmed 10 months ago. On ...

A requested emergency order to change operations at Columbia and Snake river hydroelectric dams would raise electricity costs 17% for many Northwest customers, according to the Bonneville Power ...

Simms is chief executive officer and executive director of the Public Power Council, which represents more than 80 nonprofit, community owned electric utilities across six Pacific Northwest states, ...