After months of stalemate, glimmers of hope have emerged for consensus on a new plan to manage the shrinking Colorado River. Negotiators from the seven river basin states said in a series of meetings ...

Authorities on Friday afternoon recovered the body of a man who was found floating face-down in the Lake River. A 911 caller ...

The CCSO Marine Patrol Unit was also dispatched after an “apparently abandoned sailboat” was found, anchored just a few ...

Crews from Clark Cowlitz Fire and Washington DNR, including a helicopter, were working to contain the blaze. No injuries ...

An Olympia driver stuck and injured a Ferndale pedestrian on Interstate 5 in south Lewis County Thursday morning. The ...

Standing on the bank of the Cowlitz River outside his office in Kelso in late February, the river gauge read about 13.5 feet.

1 of 2 Dipnetters start to skim the Cowlitz River in Longview, Washington, for eulachon or Columbia smelt just after the 8 a.m. opening of the fishery on March 15, 2025.

Mar. 12—Anglers from across the Pacific Northwest took to the banks of the Cowlitz River on Wednesday, March 12, for the opening of the state's brief smelt dipping season. All it took was a few ...

Mar. 6—Crowds from across the state gathered along the Cowlitz River on Tuesday afternoon for the second day of smelt-dipping approved by the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

During the limited opener, a designated portion of the Cowlitz River in Southwest Washington will be open for recreational dip-netting from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. for one day only.