On the lower Columbia River from Rocky Point/Tongue Point line upstream to Bonneville Dam there were 38 salmonid boats and ...

An Olympia driver stuck and injured a Ferndale pedestrian on Interstate 5 in south Lewis County Thursday morning. The ...

Fishery managers were able to open the Cowlitz River to spring Chinook retention through the end of April, with one fin-clipped hatchery Chinook allowed as part of a two-salmon/steelhead daily limit.

The source of the Cowlitz River is plotted by the geographers to be here, where two rather modest streams rising on Mount Rainier’s Cowlitz Glacier — the Ohanapecosh and the Clear Fork ...

The Cowlitz carries meltwater from three glacier-capped volcanos toward the Columbia River and the Washington-Oregon border at Longview, Washington. “We're ground zero for the smelt,” Iyall said.

The Cowlitz run is well known, and so are occasional runs in the North Fork Lewis River. However, when the fish appeared in other streams, they were thought to be strays from the mainstem Columbia.

It’s time to dust off the smelt dip-nets as state Fish and Wildlife has approved a one-day, five-hour long sport fishery this Saturday (Feb. 25) along the banks of the Cowlitz River.

Mar. 12—Anglers from across the Pacific Northwest took to the banks of the Cowlitz River on Wednesday, March 12, for the opening of the state's brief smelt dipping season. All it took was a few ...

Mar. 6—Crowds from across the state gathered along the Cowlitz River on Tuesday afternoon for the second day of smelt-dipping approved by the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

Two Longview, Wash. children nearly drowned Thursday after slipping off an innertube in the Cowlitz River. Witnesses reported seeing an 11-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy screaming for help.

Beginning in 2013 the Warm Springs Tribe has harvested smelt from the Cowlitz River for subsistence purposes. Tribal ceremonial and subsistence fisheries harvested 6,970 pounds in 2014 and 10,440 ...

When the call came in Saturday evening, Cowlitz County deputies were dubious. Several miles west of the Cowlitz River and sleepy downtown Castle Rock, a driver said they spotted a massive sea lion ...