The Hope fire, burning on the north side of the Columbia River, has grown to 6,764 acres with level 3 "leave now" evacuations ...

In 1961, Robert Liscomb was mapping the banks of the Colville River for the oil company Shell, when he found something unexpected: a handful of bones, sticking out of the strata of the cliff.

Multnomah Falls (left) is a scenic highlight of the Columbia River Gorge, while the Colville National Forest had its big moment in 2013 when it supplied the National Christmas Tree to the U.S ...

A fire burning near the Colville National Forest is nearing 6,000 acres. The Hope Fire started on July 8 and remains ...

The petrified stumps on the upper Colville River may be from sequoia-type trees that thrived in the area millions of years ago. Other than willows and scattered balsam poplars, trees don’t grow ...

Snow geese and white-fronted geese are gorging on what amounts to an early bird special on Alaska s North Slope, thanks to their ability to adapt to warming Arctic conditions.

Colville Tribal biologists counted 36 redds (a gravely nest in which female salmon lay their eggs) along an 8-mile stretch of the Sanpoil River, a tributary of the Columbia, in September.

For the Colville Tribe, the trial’s outcome is of utmost importance, said Sirois, the tribe’s 43-year-old chairman. Sirois’ grandmother was born at a fish camp on a Columbia River tributary ...

If you watched "Arctic Dinosaurs" in the comfort of your living room, you probably weren't thinking about what it took to secure that footage shot on the Colville River in northern Alaska. It's ...

Colville River Two peregrine falcon chicks nest in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, a 23-million-acre tract of land being leased for drilling.

The town, with a population of 400, nearly all Eskimos, sits on the edge of the Colville River and the National Petroleum Reserve, or NPR. How isolated is it?