Columbia River

The U.S. Department of Energy announced that they have treated the first batch of radioactive tank waste at Hanford in southeast Washington. Workers bound the waste up into glass.

The court filing comes in response to the Trump administration cancelling an agreement with states and tribes.

Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. To enable the removal of four hydroelectric dams considered especially harmful to salmon, the government promised to invest billions of dollars in alternative energy sources to be created by the tribes.This story comes to you from Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.

Biologists say removing a 550-foot causeway in Richland would be a big help for struggling salmon in the Yakima River.

El Museo REACH de Richland presenta una nueva exposición titulada “Migration to Community”, que destaca las contribuciones de los hispanos y latinos en Hanford.

The Reach Museum in Richland is featuring a new exhibition called Migration to Community, which highlights the contributions of Hispanics and Latinos at Hanford.

(Runtime 1:04) The U.S. and Canada are working out key details of the Columbia River Treaty. That important agreement details flood risk management along…

(Runtime 3:59) At a watercraft inspection station along the highway a few miles from the Idaho border, one very good boy is doing a very good job.Fin is…

(Runtime 1:01) After more than six years of difficult negotiations, the U.S. and Canada have figured out some key points of the Columbia River Treaty, a…

(Runtime 3:46)Call it determination. Call it follow through. Or just call it pure stubbornness. One Tri-Cities man has found a way to beat the heat and…