Sea lions were the subject of congressional discussions last week. The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources took on the Columbia River’s salmon-eating sea lion problem in a ...

PORTLAND — A federal judge said Wednesday he is inclined to side with the government on the issue of whether it can kill up to 85 sea lions a year at Bonneville Dam beginning next spring to reduce ...

Killing the protected animals may be the only way to stop them from eating too many of the Pacific Northwest’s endangered ...

Sea Lions in the Cowliz River, near the mouth of the Cowlitz and the Columbia rivers in southwestern Washington. (Photo by GarysFRP/Getty Images) The federal permit that allows Northwest states and ...

A federal appeals court has refused to block plans to start killing sea lions that eat endangered salmon at Bonneville Dam. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that it would not issue ...

Last month it was mealtime on the Lower Columbia. We could hear the excited barking of sea lions across the city of Longview, where I live, as they hauled themselves onto the rocks near the mouth of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The battle between sea lions, salmon and fishermen has been going on for decades on the Columbia River, but tension is growing in Longview, where it appears hundreds of them have ...

SEATTLE — A group advising the federal fisheries service says a program to remove or kill sea lions that eat imperiled salmon near Bonneville Dam hasn't been effective at saving the fish.