To state the obvious, islands capture ... story is part of Oregon Summer Magazine, Willamette Week’s annual guide to the summer months, this year focused along the Columbia River.

(KPTV) - A barge was pushed onto a beach Tuesday on the north side of Government Island, east of the Interstate ... of four carrying wheat on the Columbia River from the Snake River area in ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office released the name of a man who fell out of a boat and drowned on July 31 in the Columbia River. The body of 53-year-old ...

(KOIN) – Authorities are searching for a man who went underwater in the Columbia River ... a drowning victim near Government Island surfaces days later, miles down river. Sometimes, as far ...

Trump has withdrawn the U.S. government from an agreement to restore native fish being decimated by hydroelectric dams in the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A floating shanty that sat on the Oregon side of the Columbia River near Government Island for roughly a year was removed on Feb. 24 by the Oregon Department of State ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto A 72-year-old wakeboarder died in a bizarre accident on the Columbia River, Oregon sheriff ... dragging him under the boat near Government Island around 11 a.m. Sunday ...

Taking off: American white pelicans, which have the longest wingspan of any bird in Oregon, are at home ... downriver in 2010, on an island in the Columbia River Estuary. Birds seen in spring ...

They’ve also in recent years confused fishers and scientists as they’ve appeared in large numbers along the Columbia River ... islands within freshwater lakes or rivers, from southern Oregon ...