The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission had a pretty busy day today, opening the Coquille for the first fall Chinook fishery since 2021 (hatchery only), approving tweaks to the 2026 fishing regs ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife talks about the loss of legislative funding for the Salmon River Hatchery and how production on the system as well as with other Chinook, coho, steelhead and ...

Thanks to a "strong comeback," the whitetails of the Lower Columbia River are on the verge of a federal delisting proposal.

Litigation over Columbia River hydropower operations impacts on salmon and steelhead that had been paused appears to be headed back to court as Northwest fish and fishing interests, including a ...

Washington Coast Chinook are "most likely at low risk of extinction," according to a federal status review, potentially lowering the odds of an eventual Endangered Species Act listing for the ...

ODFW and the Oregon Hunters Association are again teaming up to encourage deer and elk hunters to get their harvests checked for chronic wasting disease; those who submit tests will be put in to a ...

WDFW is reminding Washington deer, elk and moose hunters about new rules in place this fall big game season that are meant to limit the spread of chronic wasting disease.

When the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission meets September 11-12 in Ontario, it will take up mule deer and sage grouse management, recreational sportfishing regulation changes, and more. Here are ...

If you haven’t already heard about the recently completed Ruckelshaus report, you are going to get very familiar with it in the coming months. It will play a major role in the continued battle over ...

A bill slated to drop in Olympia Wednesday morning would make WDFW's director a political appointee again and turn the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission into an advisory panel.

Fired by a steady drip of videos highlighting certain Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members' internal communications, hunters came a'calling this morning for the resignations of four of them ...