SACRAMENTO — The diminutive Delta smelt, no bigger than your pinkie finger, has for a decade been a heavyweight in California water politics. When it landed on the federal endangered species list in ...

DULUTH — It was just after 8 p.m. on a mild mid-April evening and there was only a solitary, wader-clad fisherman at the mouth of Duluth’s Lester River. He was standing thigh-deep in cold water, where ...

SACRAMENTO — A Bush administration official has helped California farmers in a campaign to eliminate endangered species protections for the delta smelt, a tiny fish that has bedeviled Central Valley ...

A friend texted the other day from the Washington shoreline of the Columbia River, a short distance downstream from Longview. "Currently taking (his dog) for a morning walk on the beach while ...

LONGVIEW — Thousands of eager anglers lined the banks of the Cowlitz River from Kelso to Castle Rock on Tuesday hoping to score a net full of smelt. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ...