The tea-hued waters of the Los Angeles River were running knee-deep and mostly free of harmful bacteria recently when George Wolfe stepped into the belly of a bobbing, 16-foot canoe.

Work continues on a project to restore the salmon population in Nova Scotia's Cheticamp River. In this second year of the project, the focus is on Aucoin Brook, a tributary of the river.

The Cheticamp River Salmon Association recently received $75,000 under the Sustainable Communities Challenge Fund to help build deflectors, which are piles of rock that narrow the river channel ...

And as it turns out, two areas along the river are open for recreation during the summer, including kayaking. KCRW’s Steve Chiotakis took a trip with LA River Expeditions in the Sepulveda Basin ...