On a hillside above the Salmon River, Kyle Smith, his setter, and I stood there and panted. Still catching our breath from the climb, we looked down to see a fish break the water’s surface. The big ...

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Idaho state officials this fall plan to continue efforts to eradicate quagga mussels, an invasive species threating the state's ecosystem, with another round of chemical treatments in the Snake River.

The invasive quagga mussels found in an Idaho river in 2023 were microscopic. But to state officials, their presence was enormous. Though the mussels couldn’t grow much larger than a nickel, state ...

BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) – The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) continues quagga mussel treatment in an effort to eradicate the invasive species in the Snake River. On Tuesday, Oct. 3, ISDA and ...

Crews working on lifting a plane that has crashed into the Snake River near the Rose Road Bridge near Blackfoot. | Daniel V.

State officials and contractors began using a copper-based chemical in the Snake River near Twin Falls on Tuesday in an effort to kill off invasive quagga mussels that were detected again last month.

A small aircraft was successfully removed from the Snake River in Bingham County on Monday morning, roughly 16 hours after ...

BLACKFOOT — Bingham County Sheriff deputies responded to a plane crash in the Snake River Sunday evening near the area of the ...

Idaho state officials this fall plan to continue treatments to eradicate quagga mussels, an invasive species threatening the state’s ecosystem, after they found larvae remaining in the Snake River, ...