Last June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates a series of dams in Oregon's Willamette River Basin, missed a deadline set by Congress to produce a report on how the dams are affecting ...

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point ...

El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

An atmospheric river was pummeling Southern California with heavy rain on Thursday, prompting evacuations and school closures ...

Battle Ground contractor Tapani Inc. has been selected as the primary contractor for Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership’s habitat restoration project on the East Fork Lewis River.

Many atmospheric river events are weak. But the powerful ones can transport extraordinary amounts of moisture. Studies have ...

An atmospheric river brought heavy rain and mountain snow to parts of California ... rain and mountain snow is expected to continue into next week. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA via Storyful ...

An atmospheric river brought heavy rain and mountain snow ... snow is expected to continue into next week. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA via Storyful ...

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an atmospheric river is a long, narrow column of water vapor that produces intense rain or snow when it makes landfall.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ... to the Cape Fear River in North Carolina, the winter calving grounds of the right whale. The zones were established by NOAA in 2008 and remain in effect ...