A treacherous river with challenging access is complicating efforts to find a woman who fell in and was swept away in Pierce ...

A 28-year-old woman is missing after she and her dog fell into a Washington state river, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office ...

Decades after Mount St. Helens' eruption sent almost 90 billion cubic feet of debris into the upper Toutle Valley, sediment ...

Nearly 45 years after Mount St. Helens' eruption sent almost 90 billion cubic feet of debris into the upper Toutle Valley, ...

This year’s Cowlitz River recreational smelt dip-fishing season kicked off Wednesday almost totally without its two most important elements: smelt and people dipping for them.

On Thursday, WDFW approved dipping on Wednesday and March 22 — the last day of the season. Saturday's dipnetting is also ...

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 empty nets for ...

Dipnetting from the shore is allowed on the Cowlitz River from the Tennant Way Bridge upstream to the Al Helenberg Memorial Boat Ramp in Castle Rock, Fish and Wildlife reports. Popular dipnetting ...

A teenage boy in Washington state was found dead in the Beckler River over the weekend, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office. The 15-year-old's body was found and recovered from the ...

according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The WDFW said to address this, the daily limit for adult salmon in the lower Klickitat River has been reduced to one hatchery fish.

when four missionaries serving in California were sent into the Washington and Oregon territories. Enough converts joined to create a congregation just north of present-day Vancouver along the Lewis ...

Smelt dippers will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday, March 12, and Saturday, March 15.