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 ...

The incident happened on Monday at Wapato Lake in Tacoma. According to TPD, the officers were in a nearby parking lot when police received a call about a 15-year-old girl who was on the verge of ...

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 ...

TACOMA — Hundreds of dead fish ranging from 20-inch-long carp to fingernail-sized perch floated in the waters of Wapato Lake on Saturday, a day after the lake was treated with chemicals to kill ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Yakima County Fire District No. 5 crews were mopping up the remains of a brush fire that started Sunday afternoon in the 700 block of East Wapato Road. Tanya Gaston, an administrative assistant ...

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.