The Washington Department of Natural Resources has been using a firefighting helicopter to haul abandoned boats off an uninhabited island in the southernmost reaches of Puget Sound this week.

Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them ...

A car flipped into a creek off Poole Road in Wendell. Wake County deputies responded to the scene around 5:10 p.m. Monday. Deputies were at the scene directing traffic near Lake Myra. Sky 5 flew ...

the new research shows some salmon returning to Putah Creek to spawn were also born there, meaning other altered and dam-controlled waterways around the world could have the potential to help ...

Salmon Creek has seen it all — even a 2-foot alligator, which was probably set loose by a local and turned up in summer 2009. Nicknamed D.B. Cooper, the alligator was eventually trapped by Clark ...

UC Davis researchers Thursday announced a new study that proves years of hard work to heal the Putah Creek habitat is saving salmon. "In most places, salmon are declining. Putah Creek is kind of ...

From left, UC Davis lead author Lauren Hitt, junior specialist Jordan Colby and coauthor Mackenzie Miner prepare to search for chinook salmon on Lower Putah Creek by canoe. (Dennis Cocherell, UC Davis ...

Jordan Poole of the Washington Wizards is becoming very familiar with the efforts it takes to achieve legendary status with a sports organization. It is hard to believe that Jordan Poole is just ...

FAIRFIELD — UC Davis researchers, working with the Solano County Water Agency, counted 170 adult salmon returning this winter to spawn in Putah Creek. Officials said the number could be as high as 200 ...

Copious early rainfall and efforts aimed at restoring local salmon and steelhead trout habitat have made such scenes possible, local ecologists say. KENWOOD — A female Chinook salmon swam ...

A story of recovery has a spectacle in the South Bay in the past few days as large salmon have been making their way through Los Gatos Creek to spawn. Large chinook salmon were swimming up the Los ...

Storm Chinook Salmon have made their way in big numbers to a South Bay creek. The salmon have become a huge attraction near downtown Campbell, with people pulling over in their cars and bikes to ...