The Wapato Lake National Wildlife Refuge spans more than 800 acres near the town of Gaston, offering newly open and expanded recreation opportunities such as wildlife photography, bird watching ...

Wapato Lake is shown in a 2010 file photo. (Nick Christensen/ 2010) The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is looking for public input as it develops a restoration plan for Wapato Lake National Wildlife ...

GASTON, Ore. — The Wapato Lake National Wildlife Refuge unveiled the first public access points to the refuge located in Gaston during a ceremony on Saturday. The public now has access to a 2.6 ...

Metro purchased 246 acres of farm and forest land near Gaston and the Wapato Lake National Wildlife Refuge. For now, it plans to maintain the farm use while protecting about a mile of the Tualatin ...

In a press release also shared on social media, the TPD said officers "rushed" to the scene at 2:11 p.m. local time on Monday, April 9, after getting a call "about a juvenile struggling to stay ...

The lake originated as a “kettle” dug by the movement of ice-age glaciers. Streams don’t feed it. Rainwater that falls on the 900 or so acres around the lake flows downhill into Wapato.

Chemical applications at Waughop and Wapato lakes are OK for now. But dredging stands out as the best long-term fix, rather than routinely dumping thousands of gallons of volatile chemicals into ...

Hundreds of people showed up at the former Wapato Jail to show their support for opening it as the Bybee Lake Hope Center on the morning Saturday, Jan. 25.

TACOMA, Wash. — Newly released body camera footage shows three Tacoma Police Department (TPD) officers jumping into a lake to save a teenager from drowning. The incident happened on Monday ...