Parties to a long-running lawsuit over federal Columbia River system hydropower operations have agreed to another stay of litigation so they can continue working toward a long-term solution that recovers the region's salmon and steelhead and more....
Idaho Fish and Game commissioners voted to allow hunting, fishing and trapping in a 36-square-mile wildlife preserve near Bonners Ferry, a mountain valley home to "nearly all big and small game species in the Panhandle" and "a variety of trout species."...
Washington fish and wildlife officers report lethally removing an adult black bear near where a jogger was attacked Wednesday morning in central Whatcom County....
Washington wildlife managers report an outbreak of adenovirus hemorrhagic disease in deer near Goldendale, where the first known AHD infection in the state occurred in 2017....
Late July 2022 catch stats for Chinook, steelhead, sturgeon and walleye on the Lower Columbia, the Hanford Reach and select Southwest Washington tributaries....
Oregon state wildlife troopers report on the successful prosecution of two Western Oregon men who pled guilty to a total of eight counts of failure to register as an outfitter/guide and were sentenced to pay fines and restitution, with one also...
WDFW announces that Area 9 hatchery Chinook retention will close beginning Friday, August 5, while there won't be another king opener in Area 7 as harvest quotas in both parts of Puget Sound are essentially expected to be filled....
Salmon, steelhead, trout and bass fishing will be open under normal permanent regulations starting Aug. 15 on the Deschutes River from Moody Rapids upstream to Pelton Dam in the Deschutes River. ...
Following withering pushback from hunting and other conservation organizations, the outdoor press and more, five Republican Congressman have now withdrawn their consponsorship from a bill that put the highly regarded Pittman-Robertson Act in the crossfire of the culture war over guns....
At a time of changing theories in fish and wildlife management and conservation and the funding thereof, Washington Governor Jay Inslee has a new senior natural resource policy advisor and hunters and anglers as well as close watchers of WDFW and...
A federal judge in Seattle has dealt another blow to an Anacortes-based fishing organization's lawsuit challenging authorization of recent Puget Sound Chinook seasons....
Bass anglers caught 2,000-plus smallmouth during the first weekend of a new derby on the Coquille, but a specially tagged fish worth $1,000 escaped capture on the Oregon South Coast river where round two will occur on the Saturday and Sunday...
Thanks to a big run of sockeye, Washington salmon managers are opening both the lower Wenatchee River and Lake Wenatchee for retention of the species in the coming days, with four-sockeye daily limits....
