Success in the Yakima River Basin in Washington holds lessons for the seven states at war over water in the American West. By Henry Fountain Photographs by Ruth Fremson Fountain and Fremson ...

Want to know if a river is sick? Why not take its temperature? That's what the state Department of Ecology will do along the entire length of the Yakima River this week from a helicopter flying ...

The first water supply forecast for the upcoming irrigation season for the Kennewick Irrigation District and other irrigators who depend on Yakima River water does not look good. The U.S. Bureau ...

CLE ELUM, Wash. — Work is proceeding in the Yakima River Basin to prepare for climate change and the loss of snowpack. On the Kittitas Reclamation District, the construction of plastic-lined ...