Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Powerlines above the Columbia River move electricity from the Bonneville Dam to customers across the region in Hood River County, ...

The Bonneville Power Administration, the federal agency that sells Columbia Basin hydropower, is required by law to make decisions that are economically beneficial for its customers. It also must ...

The Bonneville Power Administration is attempting to rehire the staff it fired last month, after weeks of public outcry against the Trump administration’s cuts to the self-funded federal agency. FILE ...

Benton PUD announced power has been restored to all affected customers. Those still without power are urged to call 1-888-582 ...

The Bonneville Power Administration, the region’s largest transmission grid operator, will lose at least 600 workers under President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to reduce the federal workforce, ...

Chaos over the Trump administration's firing of federal government workers has even permeated a little-known agency at the center of the Pacific Northwest's largest source of electricity. This is ...

For decades, employment experts have warned of the pitfalls of big staff cuts: companies may save money in the short term, but it’s often at the expense of efficiency and employee trust. And in the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Bonneville Power Administration, which distributes hydropower from federal dams through transmission lines to provide electricity to companies like Portland General ...

BPA’s plan to join the Southwest Power Pool instead of a California-based market splits the West into two regions for buying and selling electricity. The largest electricity supplier in the Pacific ...

A pedestrian takes in a view of the Bonneville Dam from the Washington side of the Columbia River on Tuesday morning. The dam generates power distributed by Bonneville Power Administration. (Photos by ...