Part of U.S. 95 remains closed after landslide

A section of U.S. 95 near McCall remained closed Monday following a weekend landslide. 

The Idaho Transportation Department announced the closure between New Meadows and Council on social media at 6:32 p.m. Sunday. 

Steady rain caused a “few hundred feet of downhill landslide of the roadway shoulder,” the department said in a Monday news release. 

The collapse is located at milepost 146.5 in Stevens along the Weiser River, about 27 miles from McCall. 

“We aim to have one lane opened at some point this week, but just for cars,” Jason Brinkman, ITD district engineer, said in the release. “We are concerned about allowing wider, heavier commercial vehicles on this narrow area until the repair work is complete.”

—  Idaho Statesman