WAPATO — Tim Calhoun operates a small orchard and fruit distribution business about 2 miles off the Yakima River. Walking through rows of apple trees…
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‘Tristan matters’: Candlelight vigil for missing Vancouver teen to be held Saturday
By The Citizen on November 14, 2024
Organizers of a Saturday vigil for a 16-year-old who went missing in September hope the event helps the boy’s family feel less alone. Read more… …
“A lot of fun”: Yakama Nation biologists partner with college students to pull lamprey from drying canal’s mud
By The Citizen on October 31, 2024
UNION GAP — About a dozen Heritage University students joined biologists from the Yakama Nation’s Pacific Lamprey Project last week to save more than 1,000…
Does Trump plan to send Columbia River water to California? It’s unclear
By The Citizen on October 29, 2024
About a dozen media outlets around the U.S. and Canada reported in recent weeks that former President Donald Trump seemed to propose diverting the Columbia…
Electricity equilibrium? Finding power for the Pacific Northwest in the future ‘will be a significant challenge’
By The Citizen on October 26, 2024
From their control center at the Ross Complex in Vancouver, Bonneville Power Administration dispatchers manage the region’s electricity supply and demand in real time. Read…
Can Pacific lamprey numbers be restored in the Columbia River Basin? Yakama Nation biologists think so
By The Citizen on October 19, 2024
WOODLAND — Biologist Dave’y Lumley paced the shallow water at the mouth of the Lewis River on an overcast morning late last month. With each…
Salmon lawsuit ends in settlement but tensions over hatcheries simmer
By The Citizen on October 1, 2024
The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife is closing two Southwest Washington hatchery programs and lowering releases at another as a part of a settlement…
Pacific lamprey returns to the Columbia River plummet but Northwest tribes are working to fix those runs
By The Citizen on September 24, 2024
This year’s Pacific lamprey return in the Columbia River is nearly 30 percent lower than the average run in the past 10 years, according to…
Annual Columbia River Cross-Channel Swim equal parts challenge and tradition for swimmers
By The Citizen on September 7, 2024
CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. — Early Labor Day morning, Lynn Rasmussen and her group — The Faux Fur-sters — shed their warm, namesake coats to reveal…
Port of Woodland buys and is operating an upscale RV park along Columbia River
By The Citizen on September 3, 2024
WOODLAND — The Port of Woodland has bought and is now operating an upscale RV park along the Columbia River outside of Woodland. Read more… …