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Kyron Horman Searchers Return to Island for More Clues

(Oct. 4) -- More than 150 searchers spread out across an island in northwest Oregon looking for clues in the disappearance of Kyron Horman, the 8-year-old Portland boy who disappeared four months ago today. The weekend search was centered on Sauvie Island, a 26,000-acre area along the Columbia River. It's not the first...

Sockeye Surprise: Salmon Return in Massive Numbers

(Sept. 10) -- Call it a miracle of the fishes. For the past three years, the sockeye salmon population plummeted in Canada's Fraser River. In 2009, the number of the red-skinned fish returning to spawn hit just 1.5 million, a 50-year low that seemed to portend the possible end to a way of life for local fisherman and...

Background on columbia river

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, flows northwest and then south into the U.S.

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