Or is it? That’s one of the big changes for the 2025 Cowlitz River smelt fishery. This year, and presumably moving forward, anyone participating in the smelt fishery will have to have a current ...

Ah, smelt. Despite the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (WDFW) best intentions to provide us with smelt dipping opportunities, the first two days were not approved. Fishery managers ...

Forecasts for salmon fishing in the Columbia River in 2025 is out. Overall, the news is good. The only exception is the summer Chinook run.

It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta ...

To help combat that, the Cowlitz County Coroner’s Office is partnering with Cribs for Kids, a national nonprofit that provides cribs for families in need. As part of the new program, the coroner ...

COWLITZ COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) responded to reports of an alligator swimming in Cowlitz County. Or so they thought. In a video posted to the WDFW ...

According to a police report, an inmate in the Cowlitz County Jail tipped off authorities ... on a logging road near milepost 42 on Lewis River Road, near Lake Merwin in Ariel, about 40 minutes ...

What does a 3-inch-long, nearly extinct fish native to California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta have to do ... yet again at the endangered delta smelt as he threatens to withhold federal ...

For a small fish found only in the San Francisco Estuary, the Delta smelt has caused much controversy over the years, ranging from lawsuits to executive orders. In 1993, the smelt was listed as ...

Pep Guardiola has suggested that he “smelt” Manchester City’s “suffering” coming before their dire run of form towards the end of 2024. The 2024/25 campaign has been disastrous for Man ...