hydropower

The United States and Canada will renegotiate how to handle flood control and hydropower on the Columbia River. However, salmon advocates also want negotiators to consider the health of the Columbia River ecosystem.

Two surveys about breaching the Snake River dams show opposing results.

Two eastern Washington members of Congress are promoting hydropower as a mainstay in the future of clean energy. The bill they’re sponsoring would expand…

After more than two years of talking, environment and industry groups say they’ll work together to address climate change. To do that, they say they’ll…

Looking over the edge of a Columbia River Gorge slope, you can see the river more than 2,000 feet below. A former aluminum smelter sits to the left at the…

An electric utility in north central Washington wants to branch out into hydrogen fuel production. It would be the first of a group of power companies in…

In the last few years, rock-bottom electricity rates have attracted bitcoin miners and other virtual currency entrepreneurs to central Washington state.…

Priest Rapids Dam on the Columbia River in southeast Washington state has multiple leaks and structural problems.The dam is made up of large sections of…

When the price of one bitcoin soared to almost $20,000 late last year, an influx of entrepreneurs and developers came to the Pacific Northwest in search…

In Central Washington, Grant Public Utility District officials have declared what they’re calling a “non-failure emergency” at the 1950’s-era Priest…