BOISE — A Meridian, Idaho, man could be sentenced to as much as 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to shooting a rifle at the Hells Canyon and Brownlee dam power stations in June 2023.

Hells Canyon, the deepest river gorge in the United States, likely got rapidly carved 2.1 million years ago when a shifting landscape in Idaho caused a giant lake to start overflowing. That's ...

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RIGGINS • Traffic over Hells Canyon Dam will be limited to one lane Monday through Thursday, May 19-22, from 9:30 a.m. to noon and from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. while work continues on the dam’s spill gates ...

Fisheries managers on the Hells Canyon section of the Snake River are contemplating a future in which they may routinely move sturgeon and possibly boost their numbers through a hatchery program. It ...

HELLS CANYON • Idaho Power Co. reports that the road across Hells Canyon Dam will be closed for extended periods this fall to allow repairs to the switchyard below the dam. The road across the dam ...

BOISE, Idaho — A Meridian man has been sentenced to serve probation after he shot at two Idaho Power hydroelectric stations in June 2022. Randy Scott Vail, 59, was sentenced to five years of probation ...

With the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Idaho Power Co.’s private three-dam plan (TIME, April 15), the bitter battle over Hells Canyon seemed over at last. But last week the fight flared anew ...

The tunnel on Homestead Road, in Oregon on the west side of Hells Canyon Reservoir, is now open after being closed since Oct. 21 for maintenance. The tunnel on Homestead Road? Never been there. Pete ...