POCATELLO — A pedestrian using a walker died on Tuesday night after being struck by an SUV while trying to cross one of Pocatello's busiest streets.
Swan Valley School District 92 voters will decide on a $100,000-a-year, five-year property tax levy in November.
REXBURG — Local lawmakers spent part of a town hall Monday arguing in favor of making the state’s ballot initiative laws stricter, while also addressing issues including education funding, water rights and compensation for the wrongfully convicted.
MACKAY — When more than 150,000 people gathered in August for a music festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, many thirsty concertgoers got a taste of Idaho — Mackay, Idaho, specifically.
A local couple who oversee thousands of donations every year to groups and families across eastern Idaho are being awarded for their contributions.
REXBURG − The Family Crisis Center intends to create a support group for men who have been sexually abused.
POCATELLO — Pocatello City Council President Jim Johnston is championing a long-shot plan he’s convinced would result in big municipal savings, thereby easing a weighty tax burden on many Bannock County residents.
The partially melted reactor core from the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history could remain in Idaho for another 20 years if regulators finalize a license extension sought by the U.S. Energy Department, officials said Monday.
The urban renewal area that covers much of downtown and the west bank of the Snake River has been closed.
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Yellowstone National Park has two free events for birdwatchers, especially people who want to know more about raptors.
Mackay High School’s aquaculture class has big plans for a tiny school.
Bonneville County Republicans want to change the state party’s rules and state law to give legislative district committees more power to fill vacant seats.
This weekend is one for the kids with the fall opening of the popular U-Pick Red Barn, a family friendly BMX show, kids fair and car show.
Teton Valley hosts the largest population of staging sandhill cranes in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, a fact that the Teton Regional Land Trust wants to celebrate during its Greater Yellowstone Crane Festival, a series of events from Monday to Saturday that combine conservation with sel…
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is sounding the alarm of an extra-poor steelhead return to the Clearwater River.
A farmer from Shelley has thrown his hat in the ring to run for Jim Risch's U.S. Senate seat.
Grand Teton National Park has temporarily closed a section of the Moose-Wilson Road due to bear activity.
Families of sick children at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center now have a permanent space to call their own.
Idaho Falls School District 91 will have one new school resource officer this year.
The Idaho Falls City Council has passed an ordinance shifting the responsibility for performing a yearly safety inspection on taxicabs away from the police.
Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies and Idaho Falls Fire Department personnel responded at approximately 8 a.m. Thursday to a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of 113th South and First East in Bonneville County.
The U.S. Department of Energy has opened public comment on a draft environmental assessment to expand Idaho National Laboratory's National Security Test Range and Radiological Response Training Range.
Justin Lancaster rolls out of bed in the morning and sits down at the computer next to his desk. Maybe his cat walks around his chair and maybe he starts playing music to help him focus on reading.
The West Yellowstone, Mont., airport wants to replace its aging terminal and is hosting a public meeting Monday as part of an environmental assessment for the project.
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Two local lawmakers are on a new legislative panel that will study Idaho’s property tax structure and look at ways to reduce property taxes.
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MERIDIAN — Pete Kinnaman hadn’t expected his student Dustin Ard to go into the military. Once he learned he had, Kinnaman wasn’t surprised to learn Ard had become a high-ranking soldier.
Recent rains have put the smackdown on the Boone Fire north of Driggs and allowed the Caribou-Targhee National Forest to lift the closure on the nearby trail.
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is beginning the switch from paper coupons to cards for the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program.
One of the country’s most famous llamas needs a dentist in a bad way.
The city of Idaho Falls is considering buying the stockyard on Northgate Mile, and a new police station is among the possible uses city officials are weighing for the property.
Idaho National Laboratory is spearheading an effort to develop a national plan to safeguard America’s wind energy grid.
For some, it could be a kibosh on certain high altitude activities. For others, news of the first accumulating snow of the season is reason to do a little celebration dance.
BOISE — Three out-of-state truckers — who originally faced felony marijuana trafficking charges for moving hemp through Ada County — will likely plead to misdemeanors, serve no more jail time, and remain on unsupervised probation.
BOISE — More than $1 million worth of hemp seized in a January traffic stop remains in police custody.
Idaho National Laboratory’s cleanup contractor says there won’t be any involuntary layoffs at this time.
Idaho Falls won’t hold an advisory referendum this November on whether to keep or abolish runoff elections.
There won’t be any contested elections in Swan Valley this November, at least not unless someone launches a write-in campaign.
The contractor that operates Idaho National Laboratory is accepting requests for charitable donations through Oct. 15.
MOOSE, Wyo. — Grand Teton National Park Rangers conducted a rescue operation over the past weekend. Teton Interagency Dispatch Center received an emergency call from a climber that was stranded on the Middle Teton at approximately 7:45 p.m. Saturday, September 7.
Motorized electric bicycles may soon be humming along serene trails in national parks and other public lands nationwide. It’s part of a new Trump administration order — hotly opposed by many outdoors groups — that will allow e-bikes on every federal trail where a regular bike can go.
The application process has opened for the 2019 Citizens’ Law Academy organized by the Seventh District Bar Association and the Idaho Law Foundation.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little has ordered all U.S. and state flags in Idaho be flown at half-staff on Saturday in honor of U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Dustin Ard.
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NAMPA — For Boise Police Officer Ed Moreno, the decision to become a police officer happened early on, inspired by a baseball coach who was also a sheriff’s deputy.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game commission is seeking public input on proposed new rules mostly concerning hunting.
Idaho Falls will no longer offer paper and plastic recycling for residents, after the plant it had been using in Utah closed down.
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK — There was an air of urgency Thursday as glaciologists moved about the Middle Teton Glacier with tall, scepter-like poles called Trimbles.
GARDINER, Mont. — Ana Escalante Ramirez officially became a United States citizen Thursday after calling Evanston, Wyo., home for more than 30 years.
A recent set of Facebook videos by state Rep. Chad Christensen (R-Ammon) in which he attempts to defend constituents’ gun rights have drawn attention for what appears to be an instance of the lawmaker profiling fairgoers that “were kinda different looking.”
The House Republican leadership and Republican House members from districts 34 and 35 plan to hold a town hall in Rexburg on Sept. 16, the latest in a series they have been holding across the state.
Music flows through the city with County Line at Frosty Gator and the Idaho Falls Symphony performing at Freeman Park.
