Wes Miller, supervising engineering technician with the Turlock Irrigation District, demonstrates a canal gate that greatly increases the accuracy of water measurement to comply with a 2009 state law.

On the south side of Post Falls is Falls Park with its ponds, green lawns and paved walkways. There also is the 100-year-old head gate of a canal system that turned the once arid Spokane Valley into ...

By BRAD CARLSON Capital Press The Nampa & Meridian Irrigation District in mid-October started work to modernize the ...

NAPONEE — With old stoplog gates removed and concrete bases placed in 38 Nebraska Bostwick Irrigation District Franklin Canal structures, the only things still needed for a $3.2 million canal ...

MURTAUGH — It’s a tradition with little fanfare. All it takes is a push of a button — or five. On Wednesday, March 29, five giant gates at Murtaugh Lake swung open, releasing irrigation water into the ...

Construction is starting on a $20.9 million replacement of the Ridenbaugh Canal Diversion Dam, which brings water to the ...

MURTAUGH — It’s hard to know it from the cold wind and fresh dusting of snow on the ground, but the spring irrigation season is just around the corner. The Twin Falls Canal Company is getting ready ...

Water master Robert Rios walks down to irrigation gates near the border wall in El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1 in July 2023. The "ditch riders" frequently find dead migrants trapped ...