At the bottom of the Cle Elum Fish Passage project’s secant, wood panels are formed around a passage tunnel entrance point which will provide water flow to the Cle Elum River Thursday, June 27 ...

The gate chamber at Cle Elum Dam, the first room fish will pass through after entering the fish passage, is seen on Sept. 1, 2023. Jasper Kenzo Sundeen, Yakima Herald-Republic ...

Sep. 7—CLE ELUM LAKE — About 200,000 juvenile sockeye salmon swam through a flume over the top of the Cle Elum Dam in April and May this year, beginning their migration to the ocean through ...

Slightly more than 10,000 adult sockeye salmon just arrived in Lake Cle Elum, their upstream migration diverted by a tanker truck ride courtesy of Yakama Nation Fisheries.

Cle Elum has a budget of $5 million in 2025 and officials said the city cannot afford the payment to the company.

YAKIMA — A proposal that would provide fish passage at Lake Cle Elum Dam for the first time in more than a century has been released for public comment. The proposal is contained in a draft ...

Nearly 30 miles of fish habitat will soon open up to long-awaited salmon returns in Central Washington. For centuries, the water of the Cle Elum River nourished the bodies and souls of the Yakama ...

Cle Elum filed for bankruptcy Tuesday morning after declaring that no settlement agreement was reached during mediation with ...

Plans to restore salmon to the Cle Elum River above the Cle Elum Dam call for a unique spiral water slide to let juvenile fish head downstream. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the Bureau of ...

Getting fish up and over Cle Elum dam safely could do more than just help this one sockeye run, said Rachel Little, with the Benton Conservation District.

It will allow sockeye salmon and other fish to go from Cle Elum Lake through the dam and on to the Cle Elum River. In her remarks, Haaland touted the project as a model for conservation.

The spring chinook run on the Snake River has just concluded, and this year was supposed to be consequential for the struggling fish. Four years ago, environmental activists wrote in these pages that ...