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After decades of fighting to protect salmon and steelhead, Northwest tribal leaders signed a historic agreement with state and federal officials – the Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative.

After decades of courtroom drama, a document leak and years of negotiation, federal officials agreed with six Northwest tribes to restore salmon, build-up clean energy and begin studying how to replace services the Lower Snake River dams provide.

After leaked documents suggested the Biden administration could be making moves to help remove Washington’s four Lower Snake River dams – congressional Republicans said they needed answers.

People eating bass out of the Snake River should be wary: depending on where smallmouth bass are caught in Idaho and Oregon, the fish could have higher levels of mercury.

A harmful algal bloom on the Snake River has spanned nearly 30 miles of the river. The Whitman County health department says it hasn’t seen a bloom like this on the Snake before.

President Biden today directed federal agencies to restore healthy and abundant wild salmon populations to the Columbia River Basin. The presidential memorandum says tribal treaties need to be honored.

Outside of Leavenworth, Washington, crews have been working on a dam in trouble. Last week, officials were worried about major thunderstorms raising the…