Oldest Tri-City funeral home buys competitor, keeping burial & cremation business local
now named Columbia River Gardens Cemetery. The merged businesses employ 66 and now serve up to 1,000 families each year, said Holley Sowards, Einan’s director of funeral operations and a ...
News Tribune5d
The ‘Six Sovereigns’ are fighting for the Columbia River basin’s future. Who are they?
Highway 395 overpass crosses West Canal Drive in Kennewick with railroad tracks, Columbia River and Rattlesnake Mountain in the background. Bob Brawdy [email protected] You’d be hard ...
Billings Gazette24d
Trump's election dampens push to breach Columbia River dams to preserve salmon, steelhead
The change from the Biden to the Trump administration is primed to alter the trajectory of salmon recovery in the Snake and Columbia river basins. The effort to save the threatened and endangered ...
The Inlander24d
The Columbia River defines our corner of the continent, but the remote valley where it starts has its own story to tell
If the Columbia River's mouth eluded some of the most seasoned Northwest explorers who overlooked it, or mistook it for a bay or a section of rough coast, locating the river's headwaters was also ...
The Columbian24d
Death Notices
Allan Lester Palmer, 71, Ridgefield, died Jan. 4, 2025. Northwood Park Funeral Home, 360-574-4252. George Wishman, 83, Vancouver, died Jan. 4, 2025. Northwood Park ...
Oregonian24d
Oregon approves key permit for controversial biofuel refinery on Columbia River
Oregon environmental regulators gave a key stamp of approval to a proposed $2.5 billion biofuel refinery along the Columbia River despite continued opposition from environmental groups and tribes ...
OPB29d
As the environment changes, more white pelicans find homes on the Columbia River
Populations of the birds have declined due to drought in some areas of the state, and have climbed at colonies on the Lower Columbia River. Jes Burns, OPB / EarthFix Avian biologists say they’ve ...