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Idaho Department of Health and Welfare officials are urging the public to avoid drinking and direct contact with the water at the popular Hells Canyon Reservoir and Brownlee Reservoir areas due to harmful algal blooms.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission delayed vote on GTN Express natural gas pipeline following letters from environmentalists and Oregon’s Democrat U.S. senators.

More than a year after anti-government activist Ammon Bundy and his supporters swarmed a Boise hospital, a jury ordered him to pay $52.5 million in damages to Idaho’s largest hospital system.

The Idaho Department of Water Resources won’t be shutting off the water for hundreds of groundwater users pumping off the Eastern Snake Plan Aquifer in Idaho at this point in the summer.

A wildfire burning south of Salmon doubled in some on Friday from 1,500 acres to over 3,000 acres.

Due to drought conditions in North Idaho and warmer than normal temperatures across the state, most of North Idaho and southwest Idaho is at elevated risk for wildfire through September.

Idaho’s “bathroom bill” was one of several anti-LGBTQ bills that passed through the state’s legislature this session and arrived a week before Governor Brad Little signed another bill banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.

Mike Garrity writes, "Simply put, the Idaho Panhandle National Forest is using ‘chainsaw medicine’ to clearcut mature forests at the behest of the ever-greedy timber industry."

A central Oregon county scheduled an election to test support for becoming part of Idaho on Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours after final results from a May election in an eastern county showed a victory for supporters of the “Greater Idaho” movement.

While California's water outlook saw marked improvement in the short term, climatologists say years of worsening conditions across the West will take far more than this winter's storms to recuperate.