LAST SATURDAY’S STORM and its rainfall were enough to ease drought-related closures and reopen many North Olympic Peninsula rivers for recreational fishing. The lower sections of the Sol Duc, Calawah, ...

Kayaking on the Olympic Peninsula includes everything from snow-melt rivers to peaceful mountain lakes, from the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the slow flowing tide of Hood Canal. This guide includes ...

As drought conditions intensify on the North Olympic Peninsula, rivers are struggling at record-low flows, and there is no relief in sight for the near future. The seven Olympic Peninsula rivers ...

Rivers. OLYMPIC PENINSULA: All of the rivers are producing fish, said Bob Gooding of Olympic Sporting Goods in Forks. The Hoh has been overall the best producer with the Sol Duc next followed by ...

The Olympic Power Company dammed the river in the early 1900s to generate hydropower. First it built the 108-foot-tall Elwha Dam, followed by the 210-foot Glines Canyon Dam.

PORT ANGELES -- The unleashing of the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River from two dams presents Washingtonians with a not-to-be-missed opportunity to witness the transformation wrought by the world& ...

The unleashing of the Olympic Peninsula’s Elwha River from two dams presents Washingtonians with a not-to-be-missed opportunity to witness the transformation wrought by the world’s largest dam ...

In this June 3, 2014 aerial photo, the Elwha River flows freely through what was Lake Mills and past the old Glines Canyon Dam, bottom, in the Olympic National Park near Port Angeles, Wash.

SEATTLE — Removal of the last of two dams on the on the Olympic Peninsula has been put on temporary hold while officials try to fix problems at new water-treatment facilities built as part of ...

The department will be removing barriers as part of a fish passage construction project to relocate aquatic life in streams ...

FORKS — Time has always seemed to turn a shoulder to the west side of the Olympic Peninsula, where blue-green Sitka spruce, white-barked red alder, bald eagles, mergansers and dippers adorn a ...