River locks shutdown

The Army Corps of Engineers will close down locks at the four Snake River dams and at McNary Dam on the Columbia River March 6 to March 21. Annual maintenance, inspection and repair work will be undertaken at the locks during the three week period.

The locks are scheduled to close at 6 a.m. March 6 and remain closed until midnight March 20, according to Richard Werner, chief of the operations division of the corps district office in Walla Walla....