The Idaho Conservation League will join up with Idaho Rivers United, the Sierra Club’s Idaho Chapter and leaders from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes this weekend to observe the 30-year anniversary of the listing of Snake River sockeye salmon under the Endangered Species Act and hold a series of…

Kirk Flannigan, Area Ranger for the Sawtooth National Recreation Area has been named Ranger of the Year for the U.S. Forest Service’s Intermountain Region, the SNRA announced on Thursday.

Multinational oil and gas company Shell Oil is constructing a renewable natural gas facility in Gooding County, the company announced last month.

With their aggressive feeding habits and spectacular colors—olive-green backs, white-tipped fins, a spattering of yellow and red spots ringed in pale blue and fire-red bellies—brook trout are arguably one of the most attractive sport fish in North America.

The Boise State Physics Astronomy outreach program has been awarded $1 million from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to build a partnership between the university and Idaho’s Central Dark Sky Reserve, the university announced on Friday.

The U.S. Forest Service has hired Bobbi Filbert as a new deputy area ranger for the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, SNRA’s Area Ranger Kirk Flannigan announced in a press release on Oct. 10.

South-central Idaho is on track to experience a wet winter with above-normal precipitation, bringing the region some relief from ongoing exceptional drought conditions, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s long-range U.S. Winter Outlook released on Thursday morning.

The Boise State Physics Astronomy outreach program has been awarded $1 million from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)—a grant that will, in part, build a partnership between the university and Idaho’s Central Dark Sky Reserve, the university announced on Friday.

A powerful storm system from the Pacific made landfall in the Wood River Valley Friday night, mostly saturating the valley with rain but delivering up to 2 feet of powder in the central mountains.

A powerful storm system from the Pacific is expected to make landfall in the Wood River Valley Friday night, delivering up to two feet of powder in the central mountains, according to a Thursday morning forecast from the National Weather Service’s Pocatello office.

With hunting season now in full swing, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game is encouraging Idaho hunters to collect and submit their own chronic-wasting disease samples or whole deer, elk or moose heads to help department biologists ensure the health of big-game populations.

The arrival of wintry conditions in the Wood River Valley early Monday morning may have piqued some curiosity about what the colder months ahead have in store.

The Wood River Valley remains under a winter weather advisory until 6 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. The advisory follows the valley's first sustained snow accumulation of the year overnight Sunday into Monday.

The 87,800-acre Boundary Fire burning about 30 miles northwest of Stanley is now 80% contained, up from the 20% containment mark it hit one month ago, the Forest Service said Thursday.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is asking the public for help identifying whoever beheaded and removed the antlers from a bull elk north of Ketchum, leaving the rest of the animal to waste.

A series of wildlife crimes uncovered by Idaho Department Fish and Game officers after a pronghorn buck was found poached near Pettit Lake two years ago led to stiff sentences for two Missouri men this past summer, Fish and Game reported Thursday.

Smoke will be visible on the west side of state Highway 75 near Redfish Lake this week as fire personnel begin fall burning, the Sawtooth National Forest stated in a Tuesday news release.

Fewer than four dozen wild sockeye salmon naturally returned to spawn in the Sawtooth Basin this year due to poor ocean conditions, “potentially lethal” river temperatures and drought, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game reported on Friday.

The targeted killings of 15 wolves in the mountains surrounding the Wood River Valley this summer as part of three federal depredation operations has raised a number of questions from Idaho State Rep. Muffy Davis, D-Ketchum, and Blaine County Commissioner Dick Fosbury.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will review the status of gray wolves in the western U.S. in response to a pair of petitions filed earlier in the summer by dozens of conservation groups seeking Endangered Species Act protections for the species.

The city of Ketchum is moving forward with a plan to improve its cardboard and glass recycling facilities next to the YMCA.

A survey of fish populations on Friday in the Big Wood River where it flows through Hailey showed that brown trout outnumber the rainbows there.