PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon biologists have recorded the highest number of adult steelhead trout to return to the Deschutes River since the 1960s. Members of the Pelton Round Butte hydroelectric ...

MADRAS, Ore. (KATU) — Portland General Electric says a record number of steelhead have returned to the Deschutes River. Biologists from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and PGE have collected ...

Volunteers roamed the banks of the Deschutes River on Saturday, hunting for non-native invasive weeds to pull and trash to pick up, while divers and paddlers braved the river itself, searching for a ...

They searched Monday morning for two people who were presumed dead two days after going missing in a fatal waterfall accident, authorities said. Jason Carr with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office ...

A body was discovered Monday in water below an Oregon waterfall where a group of six was swept to the bottom on Saturday, killing at least two, authorities said. Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two weeks after six people went over Dillon Falls near Bend, search efforts continue to recover the body of the third victim. According to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office ...

Nigel Jaquiss’ recent article [“The Damned Deschutes,” WW, Dec. 18] misses the point. The story is not one of an electric utility, its critics, and the health of the Deschutes River. That framing is ...

Oregon water regulators overrode the recommendation of a grant review team to award $330,000 to study a “water bank” pilot program in the Deschutes basin. The Deschutes River Conservancy nonprofit ...

As Oregon Journalism Project previously reported, there is significant disagreement between the utility and the Tribe, which co-own the dams, on one side and river users and conservation groups on the ...

A new scientific review says the strategy that Portland General Electric and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs developed to return fish to the upper Deschutes River isn’t working. As Oregon ...