Conservation by managers and users and the delivery of water owed by junior right holders helped Twin Falls Canal Co. stretch the 2026 irrigation season to a normal duration despite dry conditions.

Wickiup Reservoir is expected to fall to extremely low levels this fall as water managers balance the needs of Central Oregon farmers with required flows for the threatened Oregon spotted frog in the ...

The University of Idaho has appointed Randy Brooks as UI Extension director and associate dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. An Extension employee for more than 35 years, he starts ...

The Bureau of Land Management plans to conduct prescribed burns on about 1,500 acres combined in central and eastern Idaho in cooperation with the U.S. Wildland Fire Service. Fire mangers will conduct ...

An animal rights group hopes billboard advertisements can stop a federal plan to protect spotted owls by killing thousands of barred owls. The Center for a Humane Economy has put up 18 billboards in ...

Washington farmers had the second-highest labor costs in the U.S. last year, behind only California and well ahead of any other state, according to the USDA Economic Research Service. Washington ...

Drought eased in Oregon and Idaho with early September storms and lower temperatures, according to the Sept. 10 edition of the U.S. Drought Monitor. While conditions improved and dampened wildfire ...

Compared to last week, steers and heifers sold 5.00 to 15.00 lower. Auction supply was light with demand moderate to good with the better demand being for yearlings straight off grass in that highly ...

Judging from Oregon’s recent history with intermodal projects, the business prospects for a new facility may seem daunting. A prominent intermodal yard in Portland recently shut down, while another in ...

Aerial treatments to control cheatgrass and noxious weeds are planned for this month in a fire-damaged part of Idaho’s east-central mountains. The Salmon-Challis National Forest, in partnership with ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife killed an adult male wolf Sept. 17 in a pack that has been attacking cattle in Asotin County in southeast Washington. Fish and Wildlife will pause and ...

Washington and California head up a 20-state coalition challenging the Trump administration’s reforms to the Endangered Species Act, claiming the reforms will undermine states’ efforts to conserve ...