The origin story of Hells Canyon, North America's deepest river gorge, has long been unclear to scientists. But new research estimates it formed about 2.1 million years ago when a dramatic flood event ...

ENTERPRISE — It’s Oregon’s manual of facts and figures and highlights of some of the state’s special places. It’s Oregon’s Blue Book. It’s out now and available online and soon in book stores. “We’ve ...

The Nez Perce Tribe has led other species restoration efforts in Idaho, including spearheading gray wolf reintroduction in ...

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 ...

OREGON, USA — Ready for a vacation that really gets away from it all? We go on the road to distant eastern Oregon on this week’s getaway where we find ourselves both in and atop the deepest gorge in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Officials from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) are on alert after a pneumonia outbreak was discovered among bighorn sheep populations in northern Hells Canyon ...

Bighorn sheep in Hells Canyon are turning up sick with pneumonia after more than five years without an outbreak of the potentially fatal disease. In an unfortunate turn, biologists said, the highly ...