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POCATELLO — A B-25 Mitchell bomber that saw action in World War II arrived at the Pocatello Regional Airport Monday morning and will remain in town for paid tours and short flights through Sunday night.
While the Idaho Republican Party's immediate focus is the November election and winning back a few legislative seats the party lost in 2018, new chairman Tom Luna is looking to growing the party for the future.
Hello, and welcome to Campaign Notebook, where I will be summarizing political developments in the Gem State, and eastern Idaho in particular, every Sunday from now through Election Day.
REXBURG — Throughout July and August, every county in eastern Idaho surrounding Madison was yellow, or at "moderate risk," at one point or another.
Days before Bonneville High School discovered a student with coronavirus was at school, prompting the school to close Wednesday and Thursday, health experts discussed Bonneville Joint School District 93’s curious new 7-day isolation policy.
BOISE — Idaho will stay in Stage 4 of its reopening for another two weeks, Gov. Brad Little announced Friday.
On Thursday, Lori Vallow’s attorney filed a motion requesting her trial be transferred to a new location “because fair and impartial jury trial cannot be had in Fremont County, State of Idaho.”
The Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee was in Idaho Falls Thursday evening, saying she wants to dramatically reduce the federal government’s imprint on American life.
The Opskamatrists to play in Shelley
Historic Bone Store reopens
The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded $20 million to improve transportation connections between Driggs and Jackson, Wyo. through Teton Pass.
An Arizona man and a Utah man each pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that accuse them of riding motorcycles off-road in Yellowstone National Park and harassing bison.
BOISE — The number of Idaho residents applying for unemployment dropped by 4% last week, officials said Thursday, as Idaho’s economy continues recovering during the coronavirus pandemic.
Vallow request to wear ‘street clothes’ is granted
Rapper filed as independent, though registered Republican
Gov. Brad Little defended his response to the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday, acknowledging some missteps and upcoming challenges but pointing to good budget and economic numbers as signs that his approach was largely successful.
A socially conservative legal group is asking a federal appeals court to let the state of Idaho enforce a law barring transgender girls and women from playing on female high school and college sports teams.
PORTLAND — Dangerously dirty air spewing from the West Coast wildfires is seeping into homes and businesses, sneaking into cars through air conditioning vents and preventing people already shut away by the coronavirus pandemic from enjoying a walk or trip to the park.
The Community Food Basket of Idaho Falls is seeking volunteers to help with its monthly mass distribution of food to the community.
POCATELLO — It was standing room only during the Pocatello-Chubbuck School District 25 Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday evening, which ushered in the end of a century-plus-long run for the Pocatello High School Indians mascot.
National laboratories nationwide, including Idaho National Laboratory, have been ordered to suspend all diversity, equity and inclusion-related trainings pending an investigation of all such programs.
Bonneville High School will be closed for two days after a student who was at the school Tuesday tested positive for the coronavirus.
Idaho Falls native Greg Carr will soon appear in PBS’s new documentary series “The Age of Nature.” Carr, who has spent years restoring Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, features prominently in the first episode.
As smoke from blazes across the West Coast trickles into Idaho, eastern Idaho seems to be seeing only minimal effects thus far.
Idaho Fish and Game is hoping someone will speak up about a white-tailed deer illegally shot outside of the town of Dingle in Bear Lake County last week.
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen will be in Idaho this week, visiting Meridian on Wednesday and Idaho Falls on Thursday.
Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle will be in Stanley Tuesday for a $2,800-a-plate fundraising dinner.
Five eastern Idaho counties are now under mask mandates by regional health officials and, at one time or another, all eight have been.
Q. I understand the Idaho Legislature passed a special statute limiting liability of businesses from lawsuits from someone claiming they contracted COVID-19 at the business location. As a business owner, how much protection does this give me?
The second season of an Idaho Falls native's podcast moves from the mysteries of the Pacific Northwest woods to the unknowns of outer space.
In 1995, local real estate developer Gary Voigt and chemist Doug Rooney founded a small beauty product company called Northwest Cosmetics Laboratory. With a 5,000-square-foot space, the team of four employees was “making things on a hot stove and mixing things up by hand.”
Astoria Hot Springs recently announced the completion of the first phase of construction of its pools and park. Reopening to the public, however, is being conducted in stages because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lawyers for the Idaho Democratic Party and two Idaho voters filed a lawsuit Friday to kick Kanye West off Idaho’s presidential ballot.
Mandates come and go as deaths grow
The fight over lifting federal protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears moved to a U.S. Senate committee room on Wednesday.
CARES Act funds to be tapped
Chalk this up as another weird side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ parts 1 & 2 to be shown at drive-in
NEW YORK — In a year when the coronavirus pandemic has reshaped countless American rituals, even the commemoration of 9/11 could not escape unchanged.
A group of thousands of women in one of the reddest states in the country are doing what they can to help get Joe Biden elected president.
As with most previous years, the Idaho Falls Symphony will kick off its 71st season with an outdoor show.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A helicopter pilot carried out several daring rescues involving people injured in climbing accidents over the weekend just hours before he attended the funeral for his son, who died in a firefighting helicopter crash in Oregon last month. One person was killed and two …
BOISE — For the second straight year, Idaho has seen a decrease in fatal traffic accidents during the time between Memorial Day and Labor Day, a busy travel season known as the “100 Deadliest Days of Driving,” the Idaho Transportation Department announced.
Kanye West will be on Idaho’s presidential ballot, even though there is still an outstanding question of whether he can legally be on it.
Lori Vallow appeared in court Thursday morning for her arraignment. She pleaded not guilty and requested a jury trial.
Teton County is no longer under a countywide mask mandate from Eastern Idaho Public Health, and Jefferson County might join soon.
An Iona man died in an apparent motorcycle crash Tuesday on North River Road.
A new spa and weight loss center will open in town next week. Tru Body Shaping will bring new types of aesthetic procedures to Idaho Falls. Owners Dalli and Owen Hobbes said they are “very excited” for people try their noninvasive “body shaping” procedures.
When Hope Towler went into labor one weekend in early January, she and her husband drove around 70 miles from Driggs to Idaho Falls.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Well before the sun rises and then again after school, Arrissa Swails feeds and waters her goats, fancy chickens and three dairy cows. There’s another trip to the barn at night to hustle the chickens into their coop.
A female in her 30s from Bonneville County died of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, according to an email sent to media outlets Tuesday by Eastern Idaho Public Health.
Every Labor Day weekend for the past few years, self-proclaimed train nuts gather in Idaho Falls, hop aboard their speeders and ride the rails.
EAGLE — A multiday search for a missing 2-year-old boy came to a tragic end early Saturday morning when the child’s remains were found in a pond near the home where his family was visiting.
A Victor woman died of her injuries Monday after a head-on crash on state Highway 33 west of Tetonia.
The recent roller coaster weather in eastern Idaho is forecast to continue this week with mountain snow and below-freezing overnight temps expected to start Monday evening followed by a warming trend that will bring the mercury to near 90 degrees by this coming weekend.
2020 edition of Eastern Idaho State Fair ends Tuesday
