THE GORGE — A public bus from the Columbia River’s in-lieu fishing sites to Wishram is helping some Indigenous people find stable housing. But even so, it’s still a choice between living at a fishing site, or walking their kids across a highway to school, said Gorge Transit Mobility Manger Kathy Fitzpatrick at a January The Dalles Community Affairs meeting.

THE GORGE — After a spate of public outreach, the Columbia River Gorge Commission (CRGC) held off on amending its management plan for the Nati…

HUSUM — The Yakama Nation is one step closer toward obtaining 174 acres of their ancestral territory along the White Salmon River, just above …

GIFFORD PINCHOT — In late March, the United States Forest Service (USFS) announced that it would not issue permits to commercially harvest huc…

By Flora Martin Gibson

By Liz Terhaar