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Northern California鈥檚 Yurok Tribe declared an emergency this month over a surge in fentanyl overdoses. The problem exists among tribes across the region.

The annual Salmon Run returns for its 19th year on Thursday.

The Bureau of Reclamation announced the second-lowest irrigation supply ever to the Klamath Project along the Oregon-California border on Monday. The agency, tasked with delivering water to farms, indicated that it will likely be unable to fully meet Endangered Species Act requirements for ailing fish populations in the Klamath River Basin this spring and summer.

Two of the Klamath Basin's native suckers are in big trouble. The endangered populations are declining fast. But scientists and the Klamath Tribes are looking for solutions that can bring the fish back.

In the drought-stricken Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border, water is a precious resource. Who gets that water hinges, in large part, on two types of fish that live only there.

Federal energy regulators have approved a key step in the long road toward removing four hydroelectric dams on the lower Klamath River to help threatened salmon.

The mood was jubilant yet sober on Saturday as members of the Klamath Tribes and their supporters drove the 鈥淐aravan for the Klamath鈥� through the city of Klamath Falls, culminating in a rally at a downtown park to advocate for tribal land and water rights.

For the first time since the federal Klamath water management project in Southern Oregon was opened in 1907, the main canal supplying water to irrigators will remain closed this season.

Farmers, tribes and wildlife are facing what could be the driest year ever recorded in the Klamath Basin. The magnitude of that reality came on Wednesday, when the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced the annual water allocation for farmers in the Klamath Irrigation Project.

Members of the region's tribes have a long history of collecting food from the land and water nearby. But that history has been interrupted by white鈥�

For decades, farmers and ranchers have engaged in a bitter tug-of-war with fishermen and Indian tribes over scarce water supplies in the Klamath Basin. Now, government officials and stakeholders have announced the broad outlines of an agreement they say could finally bring peace to the region.