Something’s in the water and it’s worth celebrating ... kids activities like face painting and fish prints, salmon tours, human-powered vessel races, and salmon burgers.

attended the first Save Our Salmon community paint day in April ... Lake Forest Park Water District and UW Bothell’s biological sciences department. It takes a village to paint a mural.

But in one small river in the Central Valley, the salmon are spawning in record numbers thanks to the efforts of an East Bay water company. Most have never heard of the Mokelumne River in San ...

Salmon must swim upstream to lay their eggs, and young fish make their way out to the ocean through California's waterways — something done more easily when cool water flows are abundant.