Outhouses located at boating and fishing access sites along the Salmon River have answered desperate calls of nature for years.
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A 28-year-old Leadore man was shot to death Sunday morning during an altercation, according to a Lemhi County Sheriff’s Office news release.
A misdemeanor charge against former Bonneville County GOP Chairman Doyle Beck was dismissed last week by a motion from the prosecutor.
Henry Zukow of Trenton, Michigan, was injured in a motorcycle crash about 3 miles north of Challis on June 11.
A misdemeanor charge against former Bonneville County GOP Chairman Doyle Beck was dismissed last week by a motion from the prosecutor.
A 36-year-old Salmon man was killed Friday night when he failed to negotiate a curve on U.S. Highway 93 and his pickup collided with a pickup that was pulling a trailer.
State legislatures won’t be able to ban the transport of hemp through their states once the U.S. Department of Agriculture publishes hemp production regulations later this year, according to an advisory opinion from a lawyer for the ag department.
In April 2018, 9-year-old Christian Bolling was hiking with his parents and sister in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, near their home in Roanoke. While climbing some boulders, he lost his footing and fell down a rocky 20-foot drop, fracturing both bones in his lower left leg, his wrist, bot…
Scott Lamb has been appointed to the Challis City Council, replacing Katie Spence, who moved from Challis earlier this year.
REXBURG — An Apollo 11 display has landed at the Legacy Flight Museum.
The eight counties in the Eastern Idaho Public Health District are not being asked to increase their contributions to the district for the coming fiscal year, Geri Rackow told Custer County commissioners June 10. Rackow is the health district director.
Two Challis teens who graduated from Challis High School last month were crowned champions at Idaho High School Rodeo Association’s state finals held in Pocatello June 8-15.
At state track Hannah Corrigan and William Ashley brought home the gold.
The lingering snowpack during March and April took its toll on eastern Idaho mule deer with below-average survival rates of fawns.
High water this Memorial Day weekend will likely put a damper on fishing many local rivers and streams, but fortunately, local ponds and lakes are a good bet for anxious anglers, Mike Demick with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game said.
The Challis-Mackay RiverCats played their final game of the season at the state tournament on May 16 against the would-be state champs, the Melba Mustangs.
The Challis Chondo Martial Arts Academy Tigers were tested and promoted on March 8.
Challis siblings Lane and Kelli Ann Strand came home champions from last week’s 2A state golf tournament in Burley.
Who knew they played hip hop, rap and rock music at high school rodeos?
You could tell that Challis school board members were a bit jealous of fifth-grade students in Stephanie Strand’s class who reported on their BaseCamp experiences at the board’s June 12 meeting.
Challis schools will receive $223,000 in federal funds from the Secure Rural Schools Act, formerly known as forest reserve funds, according to school district Business Manager Shawna Getty.
Challis Elementary School students in grades 4 through 6 developed science fair projects for the recent school science fair. Each student conducted his or her own experiment, recorded data and analyzed it to see if it helped to answer the guiding question they had developed.
Challis sixth-graders in Erika Cotant’s reading class participated in a mock jury trial at the Custer County Courthouse on April 8.
Ada County Prosecuting Attorney Jan Bennetts spoke to Erika Cotant’s gifted reading class at Challis Elementary School in April.
Summer work projects in the Challis school district this year focus on water valves, a French drain and new desks.
Calvin and Jenna McGowan of Challis welcomed a daughter, Macie Jo Jean McGowan, on Feb. 16, 2019.
