On the banks of the Snake River in far eastern Washington, sockeye salmon have had a rough summer. The water behind the last major concrete dam they have to swim past is way too hot. July 12, 2025 ...

By Andrew Adams, KSL-TV Click here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS (KSL) -- A family was back at home in Utah Tuesday ...

Several conservation and fishing groups say the Snake River dams are making the river too hot for sockeye salmon. Now, they’re planning to sue the federal government to remove the dams.

A Utah family was rescued in Bonneville County, Idaho, on Monday after their van went off the road and into the Snake River.

In 1908, the Twin Falls Salmon River Land and Water Co. entered into an agreement with the state of Idaho to build the $2.5 million Salmon Falls Dam to store enough water to irrigate 180,000 acres ...

The dams’ average output is 940MW, enough electricity to power Seattle, for example, for a year. At capacity, the dams will ...

Perhaps this is because they’ve never experienced the Salmon River in the fall, when the hills are alive with game and fish are rolling in the current. A rainbow arcs over the lower Salmon River in ...

The four dams on the lower Snake are relics of the 1950s, concrete anchors locking us into anachronistic thinking and destined to be tombstones for wild salmon and steelhead runs if we do not ...