GRESHAM, Ore. -- Officials and residents alike are welcoming what they hope are new, permanent neighbors. Johnson Creek runs through the middle of Gresham and Southeast Portland. It now appears to be ...

The excitement started with a flash of silver followed by a hefty dose of disbelief. A team of conservationists and biologists from The Wildlands Conservancy, the nonprofit that manages the 5,600-acre ...

When officials in Seattle spent millions of dollars restoring the creeks along Puget Sound — tending to the vegetation, making the stream beds less muddy, building better homes for fish — they were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coho salmon are heading into the Upper Willamette Basin in possibly record numbers this year. This picture is from Eagle Creek.

In late summer, a Chinook helicopter will lower 220 trees into Deadwood Creek, McLeod Creek, and Condon Creek. The idea is to create “complexity” in waterways affected by 150 years’ worth of ...

Janet Cavanagh of Vermont looks for coho salmon in Lagunitas Creek on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, during a visit with her sister Sally Cavanagh of Woodacre. Endangered coho salmon runs have returned to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Travis Woerner, left, a student at Western Oregon University, shows off a coho that he caught on the North Santiam River with ...

Coho salmon continue to die in Puget Sound creeks after rainstorms. The deaths were linked to bits of car tires shed from road friction into stormwater runoff in 2018. Washington State University’s ...

Coho returns to the Columbia River have been way above the projection, with the fish pushing into areas where they are rarely seen, and delighting anglers. With the earlier returning “A” run busting ...