Lower Snake River Dams

A leaked plan from the Biden administration gave insight into a proposed agreement from the federal government that would spend billions of dollars to replace the energy that the four lower Snake River dams currently generate, plus spend more money to help save salmon in the Columbia Basin.

For more than three decades there have been those who have argued for taking down four Snake River hydropower dams to help save struggling salmon. But for years, efforts to remove the dams have stalled for a variety of reasons. Now there are some very concrete efforts, including in the U.S. Congress, to try to get all the players to the table and to consider a way to take the dams down.

For the second year in a row, Idaho’s longest river takes one of the top spots in an annual list of threatened waterways in the U.S.

Idaho Matters talks with Idaho-based journalist Heath Druzin who partnered with the BBC on a new documentary about the fight to save wild salmon.

Starting Monday, a lot more water will be flowing through the Boise River and officials are urging caution for anyone recreating in and around the river.

Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson and Oregon Democrat Rep. Earl Blumenaur shared some common ground Tuesday night on the blueprint to form a new frontier for the Columbia Basin region. But the process has a long way to go.

U.S. Congressman Mike Simpson is getting pushback for his $33.5 billion proposal to remove four dams on the Lower Snake River. The attempt to restore…

Just weeks after the federal government said it would keep the four lower Snake River dams in place, conservation and sportsmen groups are suing once…