The agencies oversee the dams to provide reliable electricity, supply water to farmers and protect communities from floods.

The overdue reports on the Willamette River dams are not an anomaly for the Army Corps. A 2024 report from the Government ...

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The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a keystone management plan that governs flood control, water supply and ...

Authorities are pulling submerged vehicles from the Columbia River, including a car thought to have belonged to a Portland ...

Two fishermen were rescued Sunday evening after becoming stranded on an island near Green Peter Dam due to rapidly rising ...

The electricity the dams produce is abundant and relatively cheap and supports public utilities from Hermiston to Tillamook to Ashland, and many parts of rural Oregon in between. But even though ...

The Pomeroy Dam has been removed from the Illinois Valley for November of 2024. But the project to continue to protect fish ...

A pair of fishermen who had become trapped on an island below Green Peter Dam were rescued Sunday night by the Sweet Home Fire Department.

Related: Hydroelectric dams on Oregon’s Willamette River kill salmon. Congress says it’s time to consider shutting them down Migratory fish struggle to traverse the massive dams, which lack ...