The latest forecast for southern British Columbia calls for periods of heavy rain into Friday, setting off avalanche risks, flood watches and high streamflow advisories for area waterways. The warning ...

America’s aging infrastructure doesn’t just mean the presence of structural weaknesses but a lack of knowledge about those structural weaknesses.

WASHINGTON - Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency and DC Water will give an update on the Potomac Interceptor ...

Continuing our series of articles from The Astorian’s 1973 special edition celebrating our own centennial, this is legendary editor Fred Andrus’ interpretation of city history up to ...

The Flavel House Museum is the kind of place that makes you wonder how more people don’t know about it, like discovering your neighbor is secretly a concert pianist. That tower isn’t just for show, it ...

Big Tech’s artificial intelligence data centers are ballooning across the country, including along the Columbia River.

Showers and storms will move through the River Valley Region throughout the day on Friday, with the potential for some storms ...

Here’s the thing about grand old mansions on the Oregon coast: they don’t build them like this anymore, and honestly, they ...

When construction on the Columbia River Highway broke ground in 1913, the idea was to create something new: a scenic roadway for a contraption known as the automobile. In this case, Model Ts, which ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon has ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest in order to help salmon, saying the ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

At 1,243 miles long, the Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest with its tributaries, wetlands and estuaries reaching six U.S. states. (Bonnie Moreland /Courthouse News) PORTLAND ...