Nearly 167,000 rainbow trout had to be sent to a private landfill instead of local lakes earlier this week due to an outbreak of botulism in their rearing pond at a WDFW hatchery in Mason County.

Columbia summer and fall salmon and steelhead anglers can begin to further firm up their fishing plans for the big river and Washington-side tributaries with a handy-dandy tentative schedule graphic ...

THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE OREGON STATE POLICE FISH AND WILDLIFE DIVISION The Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division is asking for the public’s assistance to identify the person ...

WDFW is taking public comments on a plan to permanently shut down a Southeast Washington shooting range due to the cost to ...

Well … that was certainly a bit more than I think everyone bargained for. Fired by a steady drip of videos highlighting certain Washington Fish and Wildlife ...

Washington razor clam diggers will have one last series of morning low tides to harvest on as the 2025-26 season wraps up with a seven-day opener running through May 6.

A Northwest man with a deeply disturbing criminal record has been sentenced to 43.5 months in prison after pleading guilty to seven felony counts involving unlawful firearms possession and illegal ...

Columbia salmon managers are forecasting 147,300 above-Bonneville-bound spring Chinook in 2026, similar to last season’s actual return that bested the prediction by over 30,000 fish and allowed for ...

A minimum of 270 wolves roamed Washington at the end of 2025, a 17.4 percent jump over the previous annual count. The rise marks a return to the population’s growth after just a one-year blip across ...

The state campground at Chopaka Lake will stay open after all, a relief for flyrodders who strongly urged the Washington Department of Natural Resources to keep the facility at the destination ...