HIKO, Nev. — Hundreds of curious Earthlings from around the world traveled to the secret Area 51 military base in the Nevada desert after seeing an internet hoax dubbed “Storm Area 51.”
SEATTLE — U.S. protections for the waters that a group of endangered orcas call home could soon expand beyond the Seattle area to encompass much of the West Coast, from the Canadian border to central California.
SPOKANE — Washington state's liberal reputation is well-known, but voters in a conservative legislative district have re-elected Republican lawyer Matt Shea to the Legislature six times — as he has raged against Communists and atheists he thinks will destroy the U.S. and lobbied for a breaka…
TWIN FALLS — A California man died Monday while BASE jumping off the Perrine Bridge.
A vehicle crash on Interstate 15 along the border of Bannock and Oneida counties ignited a raging wildfire on Tuesday afternoon that resulted in numerous evacuations and burned dangerously close to several houses.
Record-breaking temps and a controlled burn that got out of hand between Pocatello and Inkom almost led to disaster on Sunday afternoon.
LEWISTON — Praise and tears flowed freely on the afternoon of Aug. 23, all in the name of the late Vietnam veteran and Lewiston native Paul Kornoely.
The Idaho Panhandle has some of the highest vaccination exemption rates in the country, a 2018 study found, and those rates for students continue to climb in the midst of a political tug-of-war.
LEWISTON — The investigation into a fatal crash during the annual Thunder on the Snake jet boat races continues.
BOISE — As school buses hit the streets for another school year, drivers who zoom past the buses’ stop signs may get hit with a much higher fine than before.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has issued a warning to members that coffee is prohibited no matter how fancy the name, that vaping is banned despite the alluring flavors and that marijuana is outlawed unless prescribed by “competent” doctors.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Bigger, more efficient equipment will allow an electric utility to redevelop Wyoming's first commercial wind farm so it produces the same amount of power with far fewer turbines, an example of the growing feasibility of renewable energy in the top U.S. coal-mining state.
SPOKANE, Wash. — A man wearing underwear wrapped around his head and socks on his hands attempted to break into Apex Cannabis in Otis Orchards Sunday morning.
LOGAN, Utah — Many cemeteries are known for having unmarked graves, but the Logan Cemetery appears to have the opposite: a grave marker without a body.
BOISE — During a visit to the Treasure Valley Monday, Ben Carson, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said people are catching on that Idaho is such a great place to live.
BOISE — During a visit to the Treasure Valley Monday, Ben Carson, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said people are catching on that Idaho is such a great place to live.
Earlier this month, a Treasure Valley woman who had escaped a human trafficking situation texted Paula Barthelmess and said she was going back to her old life. Barthelmess had helped her get out and start over, but now the woman was ready to return to the way things had been.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane police are investigating rumors that members of a militant neo-Nazi group known as The Base are planning to travel through Spokane this month en route to a gathering they call a “hate camp.”
LEWISTON — Dustin Hibbard and Lucas Martin had similar upbringings, but their journey through life led them on vastly different paths.
The attorney for a 39-year-old Montana man charged with assaulting a child who didn't take his hat off for the national anthem says his client, compromised by a traumatic brain injury, believes he was acting on an order from President Donald Trump.
GARDEN CITY — Three missing California children have been found living in a tool shed in Garden City with their mother, officials announced.
Jim Jameson (left), Tom Metz (center) and Tom Eier paddle the New Medizen through the still waters of the Hells Gate Marina Tuesday afternoon near Lewiston. The trio were taking the dugout canoe on its maiden voyage. The canoe took three months to build, and a number of carpentry students fr…
LEWISTON — Following two mass shootings over the weekend that killed as many as 31 people, new University of Idaho President Scott Green said the safety of the school’s Vandals is of the utmost importance.
Idaho state law allows individuals age 18 and older to carry firearms on public land, including to large events like county fairs. Following the law, the Western Idaho Fair, coming up Aug. 16-25, will allow attendees to carry their guns.
BOISE — Boise High School is taking steps to change its “Boise Braves” Native American-themed mascot to “Boise Brave,” the school district announced Monday.
CLARKSTON, Wash. — Hunter Herzog — hero.
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The remains of Feiyang “Isaac” Xiang, a 21-year-old male from China who likely drowned in 2015, have been found and positively identified. Xiang, a seasonal concessionaire employee in Yellowstone, was last seen being swept down the Yellowstone River in the northern …
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Last month, on a day that was sweltering even by Phoenix standards, Filiberto Lares knew he wasn’t well. An airline caterer, he said he had spent hours moving between the scalding tarmac and a truck with no air conditioning. Lares, 51, was dehydrated and fell ill with a fever that would keep…
Restaurants in north Idaho reported last weekend that a pizza prankster placed to-go orders for dozens of pizzas and refused to pick up the food, resulting in hundreds of dollars in losses.
MERIDIAN — Meridian could join the list of Idaho cities prohibiting hand-held cellphone use while driving.
Dozens of wildfires are burning this week in the Great Basin — an area that encompasses Idaho, Nevada, Utah and parts of Arizona and Wyoming. But fire preparedness levels remain manageable, according to the region’s fire resource management group, the Great Basin Coordination Center.
As recently as last fall, the animal that’s making headlines as the first Colorado wolf in four years was wandering one of the most remote and wild landscapes left in the Lower 48 states.
POCATELLO — Two Union Pacific diesel locomotives and seven rail cars derailed early Thursday morning at the Pocatello rail yard.
BOZEMAN, Mont. — A man accused of driving his car into the federal building in downtown Bozeman in an attempt to “level the building” pleaded not guilty to federal charges Thursday.
BOISE — Bill Roden, an eight-term state senator and former Senate majority leader and one of Idaho’s most prominent lawyer/lobbyists for decades, has died at his home at the age of 90.
KUNA — Kuna School District officials are working to change state law to allow school districts in Idaho to start collecting revenue from impact fees.
GRANGEVILLE — There’s no question Idaho County needs a reliable communication infrastructure, commissioners were told Tuesday.
BOISE — Facial recognition is coming to Boise government offices later this year.
SALT LAKE CITY — A tech worker was charged Wednesday with murder and kidnapping in the death of a Utah college student whose body was found in a wooded area with her arms bound behind her.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — When NASA flies its first Mars helicopter on the red planet in 2021, Mount Vernon company Goodwinds Composites will share in that history.
CALDWELL — Chicken Dinner Road, a street on the outskirts of Canyon County, is ruffling some feathers.
MCCAMMON — Idaho State Police have confirmed that one person is dead and three others suffered injuries in a late Monday afternoon wreck on Interstate 15.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Buying a semi-automatic rifle in Washington state will have new restrictions, take more time and require proof of having taken a safety course, starting today.
A regional charity that has provided millions in grants to Idaho groups passed a major milestone on Friday.
A year after her book “Educated” hit the stands, the woman whose entry into the world was so obscure she didn’t even have a birth certificate has been named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most influential People.
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Mary Anning, an English paleontologist in the early 1800s, made some major discoveries. But her work was often attributed to men.
BOISE — Boise Fire Chief Dennis Doan is changing his tone on fireworks this year.
REXBURG — NAVEX Global, a Portland, Ore.-based ethics and compliance software company, has offices in Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., London and Rexburg, a town of about 30,000 people 30 miles northeast of Idaho Falls.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Frozen red raspberries from a Washington state farm are being recalled across the western U.S.
Personal care service providers, like the one who was reportedly caring for a man who died after getting severe burns in scalding bath water, do not require licensing through the state.
POCATELLO — Lisa Villano, co-owner of Old Town Pocatello’s Villano’s Italian restaurant, was clinically dead by the time she arrived to Portneuf Medical Center after suffering a heart attack on Memorial Day.
EAGLE — When U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Jesse Cottle was serving on his fourth deployment in Afghanistan, a bomb detonated under him, blasting him into the air. The explosion left Cottle without legs below the knees.
BOISE — Idaho’s suicide rate is 58 percent higher than the national rate, and reflects a 44 percent increase over the last 10 years, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
CALDWELL — Emails obtained by the Idaho Press show Canyon County jail officials actively reaching out to federal immigration officials to come pick up inmates they suspect of violating immigration law.
