While some school districts in Idaho will receive funding for COVID-19 tests, both public school districts in the Idaho Falls area have declined the opportunity.
New research from Idaho State University found that Hispanics in rural southeastern Idaho communities had low rates of vaccine hesitancy and refusal.
Grand Teton National Park logged its fourth busiest August for recreation visits, the park reported Thursday.
Death is making the neighborhood begin to look a little shabby.
BOISE — Idaho lawmakers, who appear poised to challenge President Joe Biden’s new rules concerning COVID-19 vaccinations and testing for public and private employees, on Wednesday heard opinions from legal experts and the public on Biden’s controversial new plan to battle the coronavirus.
There are many reasons for Idaho’s hospital staffing shortage.
A Bonneville Joint School District 93 elementary teacher died at her home on Tuesday.
An Idaho Falls hospital has partnered with the state to administer treatment that helps keep COVID-19 patients out of the hospital.
Bonneville Joint School District 93 is amending its COVID-19 response plan amid substantial transmission within the district and an increased number of recent new cases.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers is renewing a push to expand a U.S. compensation program for people who were exposed to radiation following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out during the Cold War.
Pocatello family returns victorious from world armwrestling championships
For the second year, Grand Teton National Park is sending volunteer hunting teams into the backcountry to kill non-native mountain goats in an effort to protect the park’s native bighorn sheep population.
Yellowstone National Park search and rescue people are searching on foot, by helicopter and by boat for the half-brother of a man found dead on the shore of Shoshone Lake Monday in the park’s backcountry.
A trophy-sized mule deer buck who made a habit of visiting a residential neighborhood in Pocatello was found shot to death with a pellet gun a few weeks ago.
Dozens of mountain whitefish died on the Yellowstone River around Labor Day weekend, Montana officials confirmed on Friday.
The entire state of Idaho is already under a formal hospital resource crisis.
Four more eastern Idahoans have died of COVID-19, including two people in their 30s and 50s, officials announced Tuesday.
A few weeks ago, highly trained cadaver dogs were set loose near Almo to search an area about the size of two football fields sniffing for human remains.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Rescue crews in Yellowstone National Park recovered the body of a 67-year-old Washington state man and searched around a lake Tuesday for his half-brother after the pair failed to return from a backcountry canoe trip.
PacifiCorp Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Rocky Mountain Power, is donating funds to educational institutions in Idaho to support learning projects that incorporate the fields of science, technology, engineering, art and math.
Staff of at least two schools and a baker’s dozen Head Start programs in Idaho will be required to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, per a new federal mandate.
NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — FBI agents and police Monday searched the home of the boyfriend wanted for questioning in the death of 22-year-old Gabby Petito, whose body was discovered over the weekend at a Wyoming national park months after the couple set out on a cross-country road trip.
BOISE — Lawmakers on a committee that considers state sovereignty issues have bumped up their planned meeting next week to Wednesday to consider President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate. The meeting announced Monday is a potential avenue to reconvening the Legislature.
BOISE — The Idaho Department of Corrections saw a spike in applications after it boosted pay and offered hiring and retention bonuses to correctional officers. Now the department is looking to the Idaho Legislature to assist in its ongoing retention and hiring challenges.
BOISE — A person has drowned in eastern Idaho after a drift boat carrying a group down the Henry’s Fork River hit a rock, ejecting all the occupants.
BOISE — Police are investigating after a central Idaho hospital was vandalized with spray-painted swastikas.
The Idaho Transportation Department is inviting local residents to attend a meeting to discuss construction at the intersection of US-26 and 25th East in Idaho Falls.
Recently, a patient in Texas needed an intensive care unit bed.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden entered the White House promising to stop the twin health and economic crises caused by COVID-19, but $1.9 trillion and countless initiatives later he’s confronting the limits of what Washington can achieve when some state and local governments are unwilling …
When the Idaho Legislature convenes for its 2022 session in January, it will do so with a recommendation from the state Board of Education to fund full-day kindergarten.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As the spread of the delta variant continues unabated in much of the U.S., public health leaders have approved health care rationing in Idaho and parts of Alaska and Montana.
Crisis Standards of Care were not in use Thursday in eastern Idaho, but area hospitals were still burdened by the latest wave of COVID-19 patients.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal circuit court has rejected a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency statewide Idaho permit involving pollution into waterways from large dairy farms.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is moving the national headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees 245 million acres in Western states, back to the nation’s capital after two years in Colorado.
A Rhode Island woman was treated at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center’s Burn Center on Thursday after having second- and third-degree burns to 5% of her body when she came into contact with scalding water in the Old Faithful area.
In a letter to Victor Elementary School parents on Thursday, Principal Megan Christiansen announced that starting next Monday, Sept. 20, masks will be required in the school.
There’s a 33-year-old man hospitalized in what used to be a cardiac ICU. Just like most of the other patients on this floor, he has COVID-19. He’s on his belly, unconscious, covered by a sheet. There is a breathing tube down his throat, and tubes in other places to drain bad fluids and deliv…
The Idaho Falls Police Department and Idaho Department of Correction are holding a drive Monday to collect supplies for former inmates.
The Idaho Falls Symphony announces the cancelation of its upcoming Symphony in the Park concert that had been scheduled for Saturday. The board of directors met on Thursday and voted unanimously to cancel the concert based on the recent state-wide declaration of Crisis Standards of Care and …
Idaho Falls Symphony to give outdoor performance
On the same day as a last-resort hospital crisis plan was activated statewide for the first time ever, eastern Idaho health officials appointed one of the plan’s authors to serve as a board member.
The College of Eastern Idaho has received National Security Agency recognition for a cybersecurity program offered at the school.
The pace of practices for the Idaho Falls Expressions Choir has been “Urgent” since the new school year began as the group prepares to open for one of the world’s most famous rock bands.
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BLACKFOOT — Barry Adams held an extremely demanding job that required the skills of a jack of all trades during his roughly 30 years as superintendent of the Eastern Idaho State Fairgrounds.
DOVER, Del. — One of the primary insurers of the Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday that it has reached a tentative settlement agreement with the organization and with attorneys representing tens of thousands of men who say they were molested decades ago by scoutmasters and others.
Art student Jess Scheider was on a winter trip to City of Rocks National Reserve near Almo hoping to get some inspiration for her final art show before graduating from Boise State University when she got the tip.
All of Idaho has now been declared under a hospital resource crisis that allows for health care to be rationed.
BOISE — Just 15 of the 70 members of the Idaho House gathered in their chamber on Wednesday, in what some far-right legislators billed as an attempt to gather enough lawmakers to convene the House to oppose vaccine mandates.
Bonneville County legislators united on Wednesday to express opposition to federal vaccine mandates, and to explain why they would not take part in the ongoing attempt to convene a quorum at the Capitol.
NAMPA — Roughly 400 Afghan refugees will resettle in Idaho over the next fiscal year, officials with the International Rescue Committee in Boise said on Tuesday.
Idaho Fish and Game has a few left over controlled big game hunting tags that go on sale today (Sept. 16) for a few areas across the state.
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration said Wednesday that federal protections may need to be restored for gray wolves in the western U.S. after Republican-backed state laws made it much easier to kill the predators.
Hospitals in the Treasure Valley and Magic Valley could soon be rationing scarce health care resources if COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise, a top Idaho health official said Tuesday.
It’s a good-news/bad-news situation for waterfowl hunters at Market Lake Wildlife Management Area this fall.
