The Idaho Department of Fish and Game suspects someone left the creature by the Salmon River as a prank Idaho Fish and Game Officials suspect something fishy happened along the Salmon River in Idaho.

BOISE, Idaho — A unique population of salmon that for thousands of years has been reproducing in one of Idaho's wildest places experienced a small increase in adults returning to spawn this year. But ...

SALMON, Idaho — A new wildfire in the Salmon-Challis National Forest is already burning close to 400 acres with no containment, fire officials say. The U.S. Forest Service reports the Hayden Fire is ...

SALMON, Idaho (KIFI) - The Salmon-Challis National Forest is proposing changes to recreation fees at developed recreation sites across the forest including campgrounds, cabin rentals, and the addition ...

At an April conference, U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, publicly committed to restoring Idaho salmon, and Gov. Brad Little announced a “salmon work group.” Little promised a new approach, saying with ...

Last year, Idaho U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson and some of his staff went to Marsh Creek, the headwaters of the Middle Fork Salmon River, to watch a returning salmon create its redd, or nest, lay its eggs ...

BOISE, Idaho — With warming waters, droughts and dams, the plight Pacific salmon face in the Northwest is leading to shrinking populations. That prompted one outdoor journalist to tell the tale of the ...

Idaho’s salmon run this year is beginning to look bleak. Oregon and Washington officials shut down fishing season on the lower Columbia River earlier this month because so few spring chinook heading ...

Salmon swimming back to Idaho rivers are often named by season. Chinook salmon in Idaho may fall into one of three common “runs” called spring, summer, or fall. How are these names assigned? Idaho’s ...

How we define our identity in this blessed corner of America's "Left Coast" is influenced by two enduring issues which must be solved -- recovery of salmon runs, and survival of the orcas which eat ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — New evacuations are ordered north of Salmon, Idaho. The Salmon-Challis National Forest released the following alert. Moose Fire crossed the Ridge Road above the town of Salmon, Idaho ...

IDAHO FALLS – At the end of the 850-mile journey that chinook salmon make from the ocean to the central Idaho wilderness, the fish are beat up, decaying and will soon die. Outdoor journalist Kris ...