Idaho County Coroner Cody Funke released the names of two people who died while rafting the upper Selway River on Saturday.

Nonprofit partners of the U.S. Forest Service have scrambled to avoid what some had feared might be a summer rafting free-for-all on coveted stretches of whitewater.

Officials are urging Idahoans the rivers are still high and cold for recreation, even though with the hot weather it’s ...