Ever go looking for your keys and find your long-lost wedding ring instead?

The cowboy boards the bucking horse, leaning back as he settles atop the saddle and grabs hold of the neck rope his spotters have tied for the occasion. Anxious energy pulses through thousands of War Bonnet Round Up spectators, who wait with baited breath, watching the longest 10 seconds of …

There’s a short maxim the groundskeepers at Sandy Downs like to share with each other, especially in the weeks leading up to the War Bonnet Round Up.

At first blush, Sandy Downs’ dirt doesn’t feel like anything special. It’s brown, lush, grainy, the kind to expect at rodeos. In the venue’s competition area, the dirt’s texture best compares to, well, dirt.

The Idaho Falls Bandits are state champions.

BYU-Idaho student Taylor Talbot has qualified to run in two events in this summer’s Paralympics in Tokyo.

Competing in scorching heat in Eugene, Ore., Madison grad Chari Hawkins finished sixth at the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials with a personal best 6,235 points in the heptathlon. The top three finishers who also achieved the Olympic standard qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.

Madison grad Chari Hawkins is in fifth place after the first day of the US Olympic Trials heptathlon competition.

Eli Armstrong, a local 7-year-old state wrestling champion, won the Outstanding Wrestling Award in his age group at this past weekend’s Western States Championships in Provo, Utah. Competing in the 8-under division at 56 pounds, Armstrong also claimed titles in both folkstyle and freestyle w…

The Chukars are hotter than they've ever been this season.

The USA Gymnastics Region 2 Championships were held Thursday-Sunday in Helena, Montana, hosted by Gym 406 at the Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds. The building hadn’t been used for an event in more than a year, save for except COVID-19 vaccination clinics. Across four days, more than 900 a…

Thunder Ridge’s Grant Carter Jardine signed to play lacrosse at Adams State University on Wednesday.

Wake up in time to get to practice at 6:45 a.m., work up to a 15-hour day harvesting potatoes, and then go to sleep to get up and do it again. That’s the life of a high school athlete in Southeast Idaho for weeks during the potato harvesting season known to locals as spud harvest.

Challis grad Lind, ISU instructor Peterson achieve fastest known time on Minnesota’s Superior Hiking Trail

Snake River Hysteria Black 16U won the 16U silver championship game of the Ball on the Falls Tournament Saturday evening in Idaho Falls, going 4-2.

Like most golf outings, the numbers tell the story.

Nelson named new basketball coach at Taylor’s CrossingTaylor’s Crossing announced the hiring of Cody Nelson as its new boys basketball coach.

American Legion baseball scores from Monday. 

American Legion baseball scores from Saturday. 

The Idaho Falls Bandits opened defense of their American Legion World Series championship on Saturday in front of a spirited but socially-distanced crowd at Melaleuca Field.

“There will be baseball in Idaho Falls,” Cliff Brady, vice president of American Legion baseball for Post 56, said during a press conference Wednesday afternoon at Melaleuca Field.

In a normal season, the Idaho Falls Bandits would have already started defense of their American Legion World Series title, hoping to ride the wave of success generated by last year’s magical summer.

Thunder Ridge High School has its first college softball player.