The constant stream of rain and snowstorms that have hit Idaho since the first part of April have improved the state’s water supply outlook for 2022.
The director of the Idaho Department of Water Resources has issued a methodology order for Snake River groundwater users, predicting a 162,600…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A massive drought-starved reservoir on the Colorado River has become so depleted that Las Vegas now is pumping water from dee…
BOISE (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little on April 29 approved an emergency drought declaration for 34 of Idaho’s 44 counties.
TWIN FALLS — The Twin Falls Canal Co. started water delivery on April 25.
ASTORIA, Ore. — Wildlife officials in Oregon have voted to end a summer steelhead hatchery program on the North Umpqua River after severe decl…
BOISE — The Idaho Water Resource Board is seeking public comment on draft criteria for two, new funding programs that the Board is rolling out…
BOISE — The Idaho Water Resource Board is actively inviting applications for the 2022 State Flood Management Grant program. Applications are d…
Farmers in several Southeast Idaho counties will be eligible for special loan assistance through the USDA’s Farm Service Agency due to recent …
A series of April snow and rain storms have not been enough to dig Idaho out of its drought.
BOISE — The Idaho Water Resource Board is seeking public comment on draft criteria for two, new funding programs that the Board is rolling out…
The threat that dams and climate change pose to wild salmon and steelhead landed the lower Snake River on a national environmental group’s lis…
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — Between vast almond orchards and dairy pastures in the heart of California’s farm country sits a property being redesig…
While higher gasoline and crude oil prices are at the forefront of inflation concerns and economic tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine, ther…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than half of Idaho is in a severe drought, and an Idaho water expert says that’s likely to worsen in the coming months.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Farms that rely on irrigation from a depleted, federally managed lake on the California-Oregon border, along with a Nati…
BOISE (AP) — More than half of Idaho is in a severe drought, and an Idaho water expert says that’s likely to worsen in the coming months.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — NorthWestern Energy is reducing the amount of water it releases from Hebgen Dam into the Madison River in southwestern …
In 2021, the Custer Soil and Water Conservation District worked with eight different state and federal agencies and 15 private landowners to i…
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Low water storage and snowpack levels in southern Oregon have prompted a fifth Oregon county to declare a drought emergency.
BILLINGS, Mont. — A conservation group has filed a lawsuit against U.S. environmental officials for alleged failure to intervene after the Mon…
LAVA HOT SPRINGS — On Feb. 22, 2022, the Idaho Department of Water Resources received an amended petition for delivery call from Michael Beer …
Water experts in Idaho are projecting severe water shortages in several areas of the state including the eastern Idaho region after an unusual…
TWIN FALLS — The canal company hopes to delay the start of water deliveries next month and will reduce water shares, its general manager said Monday.
POCATELLO — With water levels in Idaho’s reservoirs well below normal last fall, irrigators entered this winter hoping for above-average snowp…
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Climate experts from Oregon, Washington and Idaho say most of the Northwest remains locked in drought and that the region i…
Mounting evidence suggests the western United States is now in its worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years. Groundwater supplies are being o…
NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — After starting on time for the first time in years, Oregon’s Dungeness crab season is seeing a record-breaking haul.