Chinook salmon populations in California are still declining, despite salmon fishing being banned for two years.

The fish have finally started to separate and focus back into that top 40-foot water column, though, so targeting the schools ...

Conservation groups are suing NOAA Fisheries after the agency missed the one-year deadline for ruling on a petition seeking ...

Chinook seasons for the mainstem Columbia River announced Wednesday by Washington and Oregon are almost exactly the same as the initial seasons that were set in 2024.

It is imperative that action is taken now to ensure that this national treasure remains open for all who seek healing or ...

More than 200 people gathered at the rose garden near the Okanagan Lake Dam in Penticton on March 7 for the ceremony that is ...

Hundreds of bills died in committee last month, extinguishing their hopes of passing and becoming law in this year’s ...

Smelt! Yup, their passage up the lower Columbia has been marked by packs of sea lions and, more recently, by Washington’s ...

But Washington is one of a handful of states in which the legislature hasn’t adopted an official nickname. “At the time, the name ‘Chinook State’ made sense. Chinook is one of the most ...

Over the past few months, fishing charters from Chinook to Westport have been busy preparing for the recreational season ...

Plus, there are early reports of spring chinook being caught on a few local tributaries. Merwin is still fishing well, although most anglers who report are headed to the annual Lake Chelan Kokanee ...