On the centennial of the Columbia River Bar Pilots’ founding, the Dec. 21, 1947 issues of the Sunday Oregonian and the Oregon Daily Journal ran celebratory features about the piloting history.
LONGVIEW — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved a project to dredge giant ship turnarounds in the Columbia River by the ports of Longview and Kalama. Creating areas where large ships can turn ...
At the mouth of the Columbia River, where powerful tides collide with ocean swells and hidden sandbars rise without warning, one stretch of coastline earned the chilling nickname “The Graveyard of the ...
Columbia River navigators are growing worried as a project to put a 100-mile power transmission line under the river charges ahead without offering ways to mitigate its impacts on the industry.