As the Washington State Department of Transportation spends billions of dollars removing concrete and metal pipes that block spawning salmon, another state agency is finally finishing a strategy to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 2018 photo shows a culvert along Tawes Creek, under State Route 9 north of Van Zandt, Wash. (Photo courtesy of Washington State ...

A court order that forces Washington state to remove barriers that block salmon migration will remain in place after a Supreme Court ruling. RELATED: The most important Washington lawsuit you never ...

Salmon, steelhead and other aquatic species are expected to gain access to nearly two more miles of natural habitat in Skagit ...

SEATTLE — The Biden administration on Wednesday announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels that carry streams beneath roads but can be deadly to fish that get ...

Washington faces a federal court order to fix under-roadway pipes that block migrating fish by 2030, but a budget passed by lawmakers puts the state at risk of missing the deadline and could delay ...

University and federal scientists used genetic sleuthing to study how salmon were affected by two major culvert replacements near the city of Bellingham. One project, a major upgrade under ...

Kim Malcolm talks with University of Washington law professor Robert Anderson about a U.S. Supreme Court case involving Native American fishing rights in Washington state. At issue is whether ...

A creative plan in the Washington Legislature to raise billions of dollars to pay for the court-ordered removal of fish passage barriers appears to be a pipe dream, for this year at least. With just ...

Co-authors Erin D’Agnese and Maya Garber-Yonts (l-r) sampling upstream of a culvert in Chuckanut Creek in April 2021. The blue backpack contains a pump that sucks stream water through the yellow tubes ...