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Oregon's Columbia River Gorge City Offers The Freshest Salmon, Endless Recreation, And Otherworldly Beauty

This riverside retreat offers stellar scenery and outdoor activities ranging from sailing and fishing to hiking and biking, ...
The Columbian

Burdoin Fire evacuations expected to remain in place for a week as Gorge fire burns 11,000 acres

Smoke from the Burdoin Fire towers over the closed state Highway 14 in the Columbia River Gorge. (Washington State Department of Transportation) Cooler weather helped the 870 firefighting personnel ...
The Columbian

Columbia River Gorge hatcheries suffer amid job losses, but volunteers stepping up

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Michael Tehan had dedicated his 43-year career in the federal government to preserving salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest. But soon after the fish biologist decided to ...
The Olympian

17-year-old falls to death while with his brother at Washington lookout, cops say

This photo shows the Columbia River Gorge, which divides Washington and Oregon. A teen boy died at the gorge Aug. 20. Getty Images/iStockphoto A 17-year-old boy died after accidentally falling from a ...