If there’s a word to describe the opposite of a banner water year, 2026 was it. After an exceptionally hot and dry summer in 2025, Idaho farme…
Idaho's water system is running on empty and forecasters are now watching the Pacific Ocean for signs of an El Niño that could make next winter just as dry as the historically mild one that left the state with its lowest snowpack on record.
Firefighting agencies gathered Tuesday at the Idaho State Capitol for a pre-season wildfire briefing. As fire season enters into its early stages, state leaders underscored that the historically hot and dry conditions bring the potential for a significant and costly fire season.
As this year’s agricultural irrigation season enters its most critical stretch, members of the Surface Water Coalition are telling the farmers, ranchers and communities they serve that the water needed is simply not there.
East Idaho's mountains are nearly bare of snow, its snowpack is the worst ever recorded and weather officials say a brutal summer of water sho…
From the Rockies to the Cascades to the Sierra Nevada, mountainsides across the West are sparsely covered by the snow that usually blankets th…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is advising everyone to plan for water-shortage conditions in the coming months after warm winter caused little snowpack.
What does it mean to have a below average snowpack? What are the consequences?
The atmospheric river slamming California has brought a little moisture to Idaho, too.
A wet spring and June's precipitation levels have turned around Idaho's bleak water outlook that was predicted earlier in 2022, but water expe…
