PARKER — The bald eagle didn’t waste much time once the cardboard box that held him on a trip from Pendleton, Ore., to the Sunnyside Canal near Parker was opened. The raptor took a couple steps out of ...

A gull, with a fish in its beak, flies over a group of pelicans looking for fish to feast on at Wananish Dam on the Yakima River outside of Richland. Tri-City Herald file Yakama Nation officials are ...

A Yakima man who stole nearly two dozen guns from the state Department of Fish and Wildlife office in Yakima will spend seven years in federal prison. Alexander Scott Stevens, 31, pleaded guilty in ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — A young kinkajou was found far from home at a rest stop in Yakima on June 23. The kinkajou was taken to the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma to be examined while staff worked ...

A buffalo herd is a rare sight in Washington. But on the edge of the Yakima River, not far from an interstate, nearly 200 buffalo roam fields surrounding a small farming town called Toppenish. Two ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — A sacred resource for the Yakama Nation is under threat from two fronts: an invasive pest spreading through native lands and commercial overharvesting that has strained the fragile ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — On August 15, Think Wild, Central Oregon’s wildlife hospital and conservation center, received a call on their wildlife hotline about an injured eagle near Pringle Falls in La Pine ...

Yakama Nation officials are authorized to shoot pelicans near Tri-Cities for research. Tribe aims to study pelicans’ diet and salmon impact under federal collection permit. White pelicans remain ...