OTHELLO, Wash. – The East Columbia Basin Irrigation District was joined by landowners, key partners and elected officials for a groundbreaking ceremony on the EL 86.4 system Monday, according to a ...

No other system has so transformed the Yakima Basin. Without it the economy would collapse and over time the orchards, vineyards and hop fields would wither and die as the region reverted to the vast ...

Certain hotspots in the country will experience severe reductions in crop yields by 2050, due to climate change's impact on irrigation, a new study by climate scientists, economists, and agriculture ...

An Oregon spotted frog, which was listed Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 as a threatened species. Once common across Oregon and Washington, the frog is only found in scattered and isolated wetlands amounting ...

Orman Johnson’s spuds are out of the ground now, piled in sheds longer than football fields, each stuffed with enough tubers to feed Seattle for half a year. Like most of Washington’s 9 billion pounds ...

After a dry, unusually warm January, key Western river basins are in severe snow drought. With irrigation allocations at 0%, one Colorado producer warns tough planting decisions could reshape this ...

The hardware and the software components of the Telemetry System are capable of providing data equivalent to the existing manual system. The system does "work", and is also capable of satisfying its ...

SUNNYSIDE, Yakima County — Concerned about escalating projects costs, the Roza Irrigation District board Tuesday voted to end its quest to develop a major new lake-pumping system that could have ...