2 weeks ago CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have scheduled public meetings on future management of the Snake River headwaters in Grand Teton and Yellowstone
2 weeks ago EMMETT, Idaho (AP) — Rock slides have forced the closure of an eight-mile stretch of Idaho State Highway 52 between Emmett and Horseshoe Bend. Idaho Transportation Department officials are examining a canal above the highway to see if seepage into the hillside could be causing the slides
2 weeks ago BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Public transportation officials in Boise are clinging to hopes of convincing state officials that a prominent downtown parking lot remains a good spot for a new transit hub.
That's despite opposition from Idaho lawmakers who fear Valley Regional Transit's proposal for a bus hub near the state Capitol would be a magnet for homeless people
2 weeks ago Fox News is reporting that the White House is calling for the release of Boise Pastor Saeed Abedini. The Iranian arrested him and sentenced him on charges that he was threatening national security. “We have reached out to numerous international partners to raise awareness of Mr
2 weeks ago BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) — An effort to place headstones on the graves of former patients at State Hospital South in southeastern Idaho is moving forward with another 120 set in the cemetery that holds more than 1,000 people
2 weeks ago BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. Forest Service officials say helicopters have been dropping weed-free wheat straw in areas of the Boise National Forest damaged by last year's Trinity Ridge fire. Project coordinator Terry Hardy says the helicopters have worked nine days dropping 1,000-pound straw bales
2 weeks ago IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho are applying technology typically used for mammograms to examine nuclear fuel.
The Post Register reports that researchers at the nuclear facility about a year ago contacted Real Time Tomography
2 weeks ago BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The former maintenance supervisor of an apartment where a tenant died of carbon monoxide poisoning last fall says she pleaded to property owners to fix faulty water heaters months before the death
2 weeks ago ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Thieves in Elko are taking an especially destructive route to stealing residents' gas. The Elko Daily Free Press reports criminals have drilled holes in the gas tanks of at least three vehicles this week in attempts to take the fuel
2 weeks ago One of my favorite places in Buhl is the Clear Springs Fish Hatchery. Clear Springs Foods, Inc has created a great family park area, and features a man-made lake with a special viewing area where you can see several species of trout and a massive Lake Sturgeon.
2 weeks ago BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation plans to reduce Snake River flows between Twin Falls and Burley to a trickle beginning next week. The move follows weeks of augmented flows of more than 2,000 cubic feet per second that occur each spring and are intended to help young salmon and steelhead travel downstream to the Columbia River and Pacific Ocean
2 weeks ago BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center say recent precipitation and cooler temperatures have delayed by several weeks the start of the fire season in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Montana
