People swim and play in the Big River at Rockford Park on Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Jefferson County where water funneled through an opening in a former dam creates dangerous currents. Most of the ...

The Army Corps of Engineers was able to reduce flooding on the Skagit River with emergency operations of two hydropower dams upstream. Big dams have big downsides, including killing salmon and ...

WSU review finds state dam-breaching models unrealistic and insufficient. Breaching plans require billion-dollar rail terminals, farms and property impacts. Removing dams would force costly power ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

Army Corps of Engineers is controlling five dams to reduce downstream flood risks in WA. Mud Mountain Dam, the closest to Pierce County, provides protection for Sumner and others. The Corps is trying ...

NEWAYGO COUNTY, Mich. — Consumers Energy is testing emergency warning sirens at three hydroelectric dams on the Muskegon River on Tuesday morning. The tests will be conducted at Rogers, Hardy and ...

KABUL- Months after India put the Indus Water Treaty in abeyance in response to Pakistan-sponsored terror attack in Pahalgam on April 22, now Afghanistan has ...

Energy Secretary Wright visits Tri-Cities, WA area, including Ice Harbor Dam. He praises hydro power as reliable, on demand electricity production method. Environmental groups disagree, say dams harm ...

ICE HARBOR DAM — U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright arrived in the Tri-Cities this week on a tour of some of Washington state's energy infrastructure, including a dam on the Lower Snake River. The ...

Courtney Flatt / NWPB Over a two-day tour around the Tri-Cities, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright boasted about the low cost of energy in the Northwest, noting prices are largely helped by the ...

Every year, Washington’s wheat fields produce over 144 million bushels of grain—enough to fill more than 144,000 tractor-trailers. However, getting that wheat from Eastern Washington to customers ...