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Grant County deputies will increase patrols on lakes and rivers this July 4 weekend to stop impaired boaters and reduce deadly boating crashes.

The Oregon Department of Fish Wildlife is working to keep invasive zebra, quagga and golden mussels out of rivers and lakes.

Voluntary boat inspections resume this Memorial Day Weekend at Lake Chelan for the third season. Chelan County Natural Resources says they hold the inspection program every year to keep aquatic invasive species (AIS), including milfoil and quagga and zebra mussels, and other non-native species from entering the Lake Chelan ecosystem...

This week is National Boating Week, and local authorities are advising the public of safe boating practices. Washington state ranks among the most deadly for boating accidents at third in the nation, with 44 percent of the recreational boating accidents resulting in fatal injuries...

Whether it's your first time renting a boat or you're an old pro, if you want to rent a boat this summer, read this first!

Some fees are already in place, but the new inflation fees are effective May 2025.

Learn how to protect Washington's waterways from invasive species by following simple boating clean-up practices.

It's National Boating and Fishing week, a celebration of the recreation and the importance of those activities in our nation. Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Public Affairs Officer Robin Demario says make sure you're properly prepared if going out ...

Chelan PUD is asking boaters on the Columbia River upstream from Rocky Reach Dam to provide extra space as crews are working on the floating boat barriers in that area. The utility says they need at least 1,700 feet of space, or the length of five football fields, for safety ...

Boaters are being urged to avoid the Rocky Reach Dam area this Saturday as Chelan PUD continues a buoy replacement project. The utility says a helicopter will be flying in the area to place the buoys that keep boaters 400 feet away from the spillway and the end of the fish bypass...