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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A group that represents farmers says saving imperiled salmon in the largest river system in the Pacific Northwest is too costly and is turning to the Trump administration. The Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association wants the government to convene a Cabinet-level committee known as the "God Squad" with the power to allow exemptions to the Endangered Species Act...

KAHLOTUS, Wash. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says oil has slowly leaked into the Snake River at Lower Monumental Lock and Dam in southeast Washington state over seven months. The federal agency, which operates the dam, said Tuesday that an estimated 742 gallons (2,808 liters) of oil leaked into the water in that time...

ASOTIN  (AP) — An eastern Washington state sheriff says a decomposed body with no head found in the Snake River will be sent to Seattle. Asotin County Sheriff John Hilderbrand tells the Lewiston Tribune that the body found last week is possibly a male...

BOISE (AP) — Federal authorities have rejected a request by an Idaho utility to negate an Oregon law requiring fish passage as part of relicensing for a hydroelectric project on the Snake River where it forms the border between Idaho and Oregon...

SPOKANE (AP) — U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse and numerous other Republican lawmakers have sent a letter opposing the removal of four dams on the Snake River to restore wild runs of salmon. The lawmakers sent the letter on Thursday to members of the House Appropriations Committee, asking that money be retained in the federal budget to operate the dams...

SPOKANE (AP) — Conservationists and others have renewed a push to remove four giant dams from the Snake River in southeast Washington to save wild salmon runs. They're speaking up after a federal judge in Portland, Oregon, earlier this year rejected the government's latest plan for protecting threatened and endangered salmon in the Columbia River system...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon says a massive habitat restoration effort doesn't do enough to improve Northwest salmon runs. U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon in Portland on Wednesday rejected the federal government's plan for offsetting the damage that dams in the Columbia River Basin pose to the fish...

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — New data released by the Nez Perce Tribe shows that fall chinook returning to the Snake River have set a new record for the third straight year. The Tri-City Herald reports that the data shows a new record of 9,345 redds, or gravel nests, were built by returning adults in the Snake River Basin between Lower Granite and Hells Canyon dams. ...

The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission invites the public to experience living history at the ninth annual Heritage Days at Sacajawea State Park in Pasco. The event is Sept. 28 and 29 at Sacajawea State Park, 2503 Sacajawea Park Road in Pasco...

When you think of catfish, you think of the warm, slow moving rivers and shallow lakes of the southern United States. But people do catch them in the northwest!