Ever since she moved to her current home on Third Street in 2018, Challis resident Mary Ann Perrenoud said the smell coming from one of her neighbors’ homes has been a constant nuisance.

A nearly $1 million grant is expected to provide better internet access to some rural customers of Custer Telephone Cooperative.

Campers looking to have a fun holiday weekend got a little too much excitement when their campfire ring nearly started a wildfire on Labor Day.

Idaho Public Television is helping families with in-home education while many students are attending school remotely.

A new fuel farm is on the docket for the Lemhi County Airport after the Federal Aviation Administration granted the facility $1.1 million to improve infrastructure.

Most people don't realize dumping a bucket of water on a campfire isn't enough to put it out, Sawtooth Rural Fire Chief Andy Gunderson said.

BOISE — It was a special session all right.

Recent lightning storms have kept Salmon River Electric Cooperative workers busy making sure the lights don’t stay out for too long.

As part of an effort to make the Nov. 3 election a success during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Postal Service officials updated their election mail website and designed it to ensure both election officials and voters have the information they need to vote by mail.

For the second time this month, Challis residents experienced record-breaking heat as the temperature hit 98 degrees Monday, Aug. 17.

Plans to establish a trailhead and parking lot on Challis Creek Road to provide access to the cliffs north of town have been put on hold, according to Challis Trails Committee member Helen Winegarner.

Hot temperatures and drying conditions on public lands have prompted the implementation of fire restrictions throughout Central Idaho.

Originally hoping to have the new Seventh Street bridge in place by Labor Day, Challis Mayor Mike Barrett said the construction project’s start date had to be pushed to the day after the holiday because of the coronavirus.

Prescribed burns along the Big Lost River are likely to begin this summer and continue for several years as part of the South Big Lost River restoration project.

Revival Gold, which operates the Beartrack-Arnett gold properties in Lemhi County, plans to use the proceeds of public offering of some company shares to fund more exploration and development in Idaho.

A national outbreak of Salmonella involving onions has sickened a couple dozen Idahoans, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

The three-year restoration project at Bonanza stream has resumed for 2020, according to Salmon-Challis Forest officials.

The route to Henry Creek is under repair by the Bureau of Land Management to facilitate repairs in the Williams Creek and Lake Creek livestock grazing allotments.

Making the community a bit better is the goal of a clean-up effort near Clayton on Saturday, Aug. 1.

After about 13 years work with the city of Challis, former City Clerk and Treasurer Colleen Engle left City Hall to work elsewhere.

Firefighters contained two fires burning northwest of Salmon in the last week.

While many county fairs across Idaho have been canceled or significantly scaled back because of COVID-19, the Custer County Fair will proceed with few changes.

Challis residents who don’t clear unsightly weeds from their property will soon receive notices to remove them or receive a citation from the city.

Stanley City Council members spent more than an hour of their July 9 meeting discussing the possible merits of changing the town’s building codes to allow for more modernistic homes.

Field work has started up again at the Beartrack-Arnett gold mines in Lemhi County, Revival Gold President and CEO Hugh Agro reported last week.

TWIN FALLS (AP) — Prosecutors from more than half of Idaho’s counties questioned whether Gov. Brad Little’s plan to use $200 million in federal aid for property tax relief is legal under the federal coronavirus aid package.