Grand Coulee Dam in Washington is one of dozens of dams in the Columbia River Basin generating hydroelectricity. The river's upstream flows are controlled in part by the Canadian government, under an ...

A river that runs between the U.S. and Canada has now run itself right into the middle of the fight between the two allies. Last year, Biden’s administration reached a tentative three-year agreement ...

We live in a region where both salmon and hydropower production can and do co-exist, writes Scott Simms of the Public Power ...

Flood risk management, hydropower generation and salmon runs will suffer if the United States and Canada don’t renew a key provision of the treaty that guides how they manage the Columbia River. That ...

Construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. It is the largest hydropower producer in the U.S. and also part of the Columbia Basin Project, irrigating ...

Nobody’s planning to do that. But somebody thought it was significant enough to include in the 1964 Columbia River Treaty between the United States and Canada. Negotiators for both nations have ...

About a 10-minute drive from the Fairmont Hot Springs, a major tourist destination in southeastern British Columbia, lies Columbia Lake. From that lake, which covers more than a dozen kilometres of a ...

The possibility of a renegotiated treaty is stirring interest on both sides of the border. Although the Columbia River Treaty doesn't have an expiration date, either country can cancel most of its ...

A very different kind of Memorial Day observance precedes an international debate starting this Tuesday. On Memorial Day Monday in 1948, what became known as the Vanport Flood burst through a railroad ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a keystone management plan that governs flood control, water supply and hydropower in the shared Columbia River Basin as President ...

Construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. It is the largest hydropower producer in the U.S. and also part of the Columbia Basin Project, irrigating ...