Don Ellis overlooked the Teton River as he watched a wall of water break through the newly-completed Teton Dam. It was 11:55 ...

REXBURG, Idaho (KIFI)– June 5th, 2025, marks the 49th anniversary of the Teton Dam flood. The collapse of the dam greatly impacted Madison and other nearby counties. Locals who were around during the ...

Exploring opportunities to increase Upper Snake River water storage capacity — including possible reconstruction of Teton Dam, which failed nearly 50 years ago — is the focus of a recent petition and ...

REXBURG, Idaho (KIFI) — Hundreds of people gathered at Smith Park in Rexburg for the annual Teton Dam Marathon on Saturday morning. The marathon and races commemorate the Teton Dam Disaster, which ...

The smell of flood mud, memories of Army helicopter rescues, and the “death” of a rubber snake. All make up stories about the Teton Dam Disaster thanks to a recently created “Teton Dam Stories” on ...

It’s Friday, which means it's time for our Reporter Roundtable when Idaho Matters gets you up to date on all the news that ...

BOISE, Idaho - When the leaking face of the brand-new Teton Dam gave way on June 5, 1976, and 80 billion gallons of water surged down a valley of eastern Idaho farming towns, it left behind the ...

As the world soon learned, the 305-foot-high Teton Dam had broken in half. Its collapse sent a wall of water through the Teton River canyon, north of the town of Newdale in Fremont County. Downstream, ...

REXBURG — Could another Teton Dam be a piece of the puzzle to meeting some of eastern Idaho’s late summer water storage deficit? Even though memories of the dam’s failure continue to resonate, it was ...