Fifty years ago in June, elected officials gathered in Lewiston to celebrate a remarkable feat: With the completion of the Lower Snake River dams, a $1 billion project had effectively turned the ...

The U.S. needs to honor their treaties – promises – to people they are legally required under federal law to protect.

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

New report comes as Washington is in drought, the already-low snowpack is quickly melting and once-rare toxic algae blooms ...

Environmental group Save Our Wild Salmon released its first Columbia River Hot Water Report of the year Wednesday, as water temperatures throughout the basin this year have already surpassed the key 6 ...

The Columbia River steelhead forecast calls for returns of about 75,000 fish, including 55,600 A-run steelhead bound for ...

Idaho’s rivers have long been a haven for anglers chasing the thrill of landing a Chinook salmon, but 2025 has brought some big changes to the fishing scene, especially on the South Fork Salmon Rive ...

This is the second time USA TODAY readers have honored the Au Sable for its fly fishing. In 2024's USA TODAY's 10BEST Readers ...

SALMON, Idaho - In shark movies, the excitement starts when the fin breaks the water. With steelhead trout, it's when a tail as big as a man's hand swirls out of a coffee-brown river. Every fish ...

SALMON, Idaho - Steph Bernt's 4-year-old face tells you everything you need to know about the thrill of steelhead fishing.

While the state is sometimes overlooked by more popular mountainous destinations in the West, like Colorado and Wyoming, Idaho's lack of tourist crowds works to its advantage. Salmon is a small rustic ...

Meet Shane Muckey, a self-avowed steelhead addict with the Salmon River in his front yard.