Columbia River

On Friday, a crane pulled a Ford station wagon from the Columbia River that officials believe belonged to the Martin family, who disappeared while on a trip 66 years ago to collect Christmas greenery.

Tariffs and job cuts at federal agencies are making life more complicated for the Columbia River Bar pilots who play a critical role in connecting Pacific Northwest agriculture with buyers in the rest of the world.

Amazon's push for small modular nuclear reactors is just the latest development in decadeslong fight over nuclear energy.

American white pelicans, with 9-foot, black-tipped wings and long orange beaks, are typically migratory birds. The birds’ numbers in the region dropped in the 19th and 20th centuries. But in recent years, they’ve been overwintering around the Columbia River, and they’ve set up at least two colonies that are now home to thousands of breeding pairs.

The floating parades, among Portland’s longest-running holiday traditions, started as a one-person show.

Peyton Scott's first foray into open water swimming became not only a physical battle, but also a reckoning with the traumas from her youth.

In government documents from the 1940s and 1950s, obtained by OPB and ProPublica, officials openly discussed what they called “the Indian problem” on the Columbia River. At times, they characterized the destruction of the last major tribal fishery as a benefit of dam construction.

For the past 25 years, Greg Patton has spent at least a few moments each month jumping in the Columbia River.

The measure asked voters to invest up to $150 million to upgrade the county's nearly century-old levee system along the Columbia River to bring it back into federal compliance and protect the region from flooding.

The century-old levee system could lose federal accreditation, which would force property owners to buy flood insurance.