NOAA's Climate Prediction Center forecast that the La Nina will peak at moderate strength from November through January. The center hedged a little, estimating a 13% chance that the La Nina will diminish before winter.
SEATTLE (AP) — Federal officials have approved a plan that calls for cutting nontribal salmon fishing along the West Coast when the fish are needed to help the Northwest’s endangered killer whales.
ILWACO — Tuna landings are still trickling into local ports, capping what has been a calamitous season for commercial albacore fishermen across the Pacific Northwest. With only weeks remaining in the commercial season, some fishermen have already declared it one of the worst in decades.
More renewable energy development and less room for energy conservation are two of the biggest changes in the draft of the new regional power plan.
A rural area east of Blaine, Wash., near the Canadian border has become the focus of efforts to find and destroy Asian giant hornet nests.
CORVALLIS — Rather than ocean oxygen levels improving as they usually do this time of year, hypoxia off the Pacific Northwest coast is as bad as it’s been at any point in 2021, according to collaborative research by Oregon State University, the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife and Or…
NORTHWEST COAST — The National Science Foundation has funded a multi-institutional team led by Oregon State University and the University of Washington to work on increasing resiliency among Pacific Northwest coastal communities.
The USDA is taking comments on what to call food cultivated from animal cells, asking how labels should distinguish between beef on the hoof and beef from a lab.
The Washington Supreme Court will hear arguments Sept. 28 on whether an $18 million fine against food companies for illegal campaign activities was a politically motivated assault on political speech.
LONG BEACH PENINSULA — Several local restaurants are searching for a new wholesale food supplier after a distributor unexpectedly severed delivery services to the Long Beach Peninsula last week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) and Kurt Schrader (OR-05) on July 14 announced that a joint Community Project Funding request they supported to protect endangered salmon, steelhead and other native fish species within the Columbia River system from sea lion predat…
When the recent heat wave broiled the Northwest, some meteorologists started to question the validity of historical climate comparisons, as our past is increasingly disconnected from our present, let alone our future.
LONG BEACH — The Coast Guard officially suspended its search for a missing 14-year-old boy, now presumed to have drowned after being swept offshore Monday afternoon, May 31, in Long Beach.
ILWACO — The halibut action is heating up off the Washington and Oregon coast.
ASTORIA — In 1943, in the midst of World War II, Navy ships and amphibious seaplanes moored in a sheltered harbor east of Astoria, then known as Naval Air Station Tongue Point.
SEATTLE (AP) — The Biden administration has halted its predecessor’s decision to sell the federal archives building in Seattle, following months of opposition from people across the Pacific Northwest and a lawsuit.
MOUNT VERNON — News of the successful maiden flight of the NASA helicopter on Mars was cause for celebration for two Ilwaco High School graduates.
OLYMPIA — In a time of reckoning about historical monuments, Washington state lawmakers found a bipartisan path to change out a prominent statue. A bill signed by Gov. Jay Inslee earlier this month begins the process of putting a statue of the late tribal treaty rights activist Billy Frank J…
The outlook is bleak for wild Chinook salmon in a changing ocean.
An ongoing La Nina enhances chances that late winter and early spring in Washington will be cool and wet, the federal Climate Prediction Center forecasted Thursday.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Federal officials have approved a plan that calls for cutting nontribal salmon fishing along the West Coast when the fish are needed to help the Northwest’s endangered killer whales.
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ILWACO — Tuna landings are still trickling into local ports, capping what has been a calamitous season for commercial albacore fishermen across the Pacific Northwest. With only weeks remaining…
More renewable energy development and less room for energy conservation are two of the biggest changes in the draft of the new regional power plan.
A rural area east of Blaine, Wash., near the Canadian border has become the focus of efforts to find and destroy Asian giant hornet nests.
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CORVALLIS — Rather than ocean oxygen levels improving as they usually do this time of year, hypoxia off the Pacific Northwest coast is as bad as it’s been at any point in 2021, according to co…
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NORTHWEST COAST — The National Science Foundation has funded a multi-institutional team led by Oregon State University and the University of Washington to work on increasing resiliency among P…
The USDA is taking comments on what to call food cultivated from animal cells, asking how labels should distinguish between beef on the hoof and beef from a lab.
The Washington Supreme Court will hear arguments Sept. 28 on whether an $18 million fine against food companies for illegal campaign activities was a politically motivated assault on political speech.
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LONG BEACH PENINSULA — Several local restaurants are searching for a new wholesale food supplier after a distributor unexpectedly severed delivery services to the Long Beach Peninsula last week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) and Kurt Schrader (OR-05) on July 14 announced that a joint Community Project Funding request they supported to protect endangered s…
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When the recent heat wave broiled the Northwest, some meteorologists started to question the validity of historical climate comparisons, as our past is increasingly disconnected from our prese…
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LONG BEACH — The Coast Guard officially suspended its search for a missing 14-year-old boy, now presumed to have drowned after being swept offshore Monday afternoon, May 31, in Long Beach.
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ILWACO — The halibut action is heating up off the Washington and Oregon coast.
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ASTORIA — In 1943, in the midst of World War II, Navy ships and amphibious seaplanes moored in a sheltered harbor east of Astoria, then known as Naval Air Station Tongue Point.
SEATTLE (AP) — The Biden administration has halted its predecessor’s decision to sell the federal archives building in Seattle, following months of opposition from people across the Pacific No…
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MOUNT VERNON — News of the successful maiden flight of the NASA helicopter on Mars was cause for celebration for two Ilwaco High School graduates.
OLYMPIA — In a time of reckoning about historical monuments, Washington state lawmakers found a bipartisan path to change out a prominent statue. A bill signed by Gov. Jay Inslee earlier this …
The outlook is bleak for wild Chinook salmon in a changing ocean.
An ongoing La Nina enhances chances that late winter and early spring in Washington will be cool and wet, the federal Climate Prediction Center forecasted Thursday.
PACIFIC OCEAN — By now, just about everyone has heard of “the Blob” — a mass of warmer seawater blamed for steadily declining salmon and steelhead populations along the West Coast, along with …
When thick, the surface layer of the ocean acts as a buffer to extreme marine heating — but a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder shows this “mixed layer” is becoming shallower e…
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COLUMBIA RIVER — A new federal rule gives states and tribes greater flexibility to kill double-crested cormorants to help migrating salmon.
Asian giant hornets are entering their "slaughter phase," and the Washington State Department of Agriculture has set up an emergency phone line for beekeepers to report in-progress attacks on hives.
The Trump administration has signed off on a new operations plan for 14 dams in the Columbia River Basin that commits to improving fish passage and habitat, but does not call for breaching dam…
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A La Nina has formed and is expected to make winter in Washington and the Idaho panhandle wetter and colder than average, the federal Climate Prediction Center said Thursday.
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LONG BEACH — The Old Farmer’s Almanac has released its winter forecasts, saying Western Washington can expect more rain than normal, with warmer temperatures and less snow.
CANNON BEACH — After what the city called one of the worst years for July 4 fireworks, the City Council unanimously voted Sept. 1 to ban all fireworks.
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PACIFIC COUNTY — What happens in the minutes and hours after the Cascadia Subduction Zone ruptures along the state’s outer coast is shown in alarming new simulations released Aug. 26 by geolog…
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Odds increasingly favor a La Nina weather pattern taking hold by fall, upping the chances for a cold and wet Northwest winter, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center says.
Some impacts are more subtle than others as water supplies, temperatures and growing seasons vary
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ILWACO — Milt Gudgell sat in his truck overlooking the Ilwaco marina Monday morning and wondered what to do next.
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ILWACO — The West Coast Dungeness crab fishery doesn’t just support the most valuable annual harvest of seafood on the West Coast, it’s a fishery that just keeps on giving.
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CORVALLIS — Massive freshwater river flows stemming from glacier-fed flooding at the end of the last ice age surged across eastern Washington to the Columbia River and out to the North Pacific…
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The common murre is a self-sufficient, resilient bird.
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ILWACO — The commercial Dungeness crab season officially commenced over the weekend, ending a delay that stalled an early December start.
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LONG BEACH — Dawnya Davis used to sneak into her older brother’s bedroom to play Tomb Raider on a Sony PlayStation.
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SOUTH BEND — Preparations are in full swing for Cascadia Rising 2022. Pacific County Emergency Management Agency Director Scott McDougall is one of many emergency management directors amping u…
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ILWACO — There’s the frugal albacore fisherman gearing up for another go on a Canadian boat named after an American animated film.
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Field burning in Oregon's Willamette Valley would help bird's population increase, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan states.
Artist, sound engineer and adventure traveler Blu Fortner is adding “farmer” to his resume with his first commercial crop of hemp seed.
On Oct. 3 AccuWeather Global Weather Center said, "The wait is over. AccuWeather's annual winter forecast for the lower 48 is out. As 2019 comes to a close, an active winter season will get un…
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NOAA Fisheries is proposing to expand critical habitat for Southern Resident killer whales along the West Coast, based on information about their coastal range and habitat use.
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ILWACO — Amanda Green was a young girl when she watched a movie about a fishing vessel and crew lost at sea and the frantic Coast Guard rescue that followed.
PORTLAND — NOAA Fisheries has released a draft plan for public comment to remove and kill as many as 416 California and Steller sea lions each year in a 180 mile stretch of the Columbia River …
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PENINSULA — Recent razor clam surveys conducted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife reveal clams are thriving on the Peninsula. Early-season digging dates will be announced soon,…
Have you felt the ground move recently? A 6.3 earthquake seven miles under the seafloor west of Coos Bay, Oregon on Aug. 29 was noticed by some on the Long Beach Peninsula and as far north as …
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SOUTH OREGON — A powerful earthquake initially measured at 6.3 or 6.4 intensity occurred at 8:08 a.m. Thursday on a crustal fault 170 miles west of Bandon, Oregon.
A Washington State University agricultural weather service is reorganizing staff and expanding weather stations following a vacanies in staffing.
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PACIFIC NORTHWEST — It’s been a summer of frenetic fishing in the Pacific Northwest, with rare sightings and record catch.
Grocery workers from across Oregon and southwest Washington state have voted to approve a strike if negotiations with four of the region’s largest supermarket chains deadlock.
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WALDPORT, Ore. — A 20-foot juvenile humpback whale washed shore north of the Alsea River near Waldport on Wednesday, Aug. 14, and remains beached Thursday morning.
Washington's drought retreated slightly over the previous week, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported Thursday, and federal climatologists said they're less confident fall will be warmer than average.
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WASHINGTON COAST — A whale expert is reporting a rare sighting of blue whales off the Washington coast. The largest animals on the planet have also been sighted in unusual numbers offshore of …
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