A March 23 evening meeting will go over a proposal to open select areas of two preserves on Orcas Island to state and tribal ...

WDFW's budget just took a $10 million hit coming out of the recently concluded Washington state legislative session, with big ...

WDFW says that it is doing away with the current special fishing and hunting license paper this summer as it continues to ...

Crews had to come to the rescue Monday afternoon when a WDFW boat broke down after working on a Nisqually River smolt trap.

Mid-March 2026 spring Chinook, steelhead, sturgeon and walleye catch stats for the Lower Columbia, lower Willamette and select Southwest Washington tributaries.

On February 28, the 8th Annual Lake Chelan Kokanee Shootout fishing derby took place near Chelan, Washington. What started as ...

With "largely encouraging" Chinook and coho forecasts, the West Coast ocean salmon fishing council has adopted options for 2026 seasons off Washington, Oregon and the rest of the coast, and here's ...

ODFW announced this afternoon that the Sandy River from mouth upstream to the Stark Street Bridge will open March 11 from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. for smelt dipping. First time in 50 years of smelt presence ...

A Northwest man with a deeply disturbing criminal record has been sentenced to 43.5 months in prison after pleading guilty to ...

The Washington NWTF State Chapter could not have asked for a better day to host its 2025 JAKES Day; with blue skies overhead and excitement in the air, 36 enthusiastic kids and their families joined ...

As every year winds down to the very end, I like to take a look back at what made fishing and hunting news in the Northwest over the previous 12 months. When I began the 2024 edition of my annual ...