Month: October 2010

Courtesy IHSAA Girls 5k Run CC 5A 1 Mountain View 44 2 Boise 65 3 Eagle 91 4 Highland-Poc 108 5 Vallivue 124 6 Rocky Mountain 151 7 Coeur D’ Alene 176 8 Meridian 187 9 Idaho Falls 208 10 Lake City 248 Girls 5k Run CC 5A Results – Girls 1, Kinsey Gomez, Coeur

Eastern Idaho saw a bigger than ever turnout this year to the Eastern Idaho College Fair and it is the students who seem to be coming more prepared. For the past several years, Idaho has been ranked amongst the lowest in the nation for college completion. According to the National Center for Public Policy and

From President Barack Obama to the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, political figures across the nation have embraced social media. And in Idaho, gubernatorial candidates Butch Otter and Keith Allred are tweeting, Facebooking and hitting YouTube on the campaign trail. “Idaho is a geographically, widely dispersed state. There’s no one TV station that captures all those

It’s just another day in the life for Terry Andersen, going to offices, meeting people and trying to find funding for a working nuclear reactor that would create energy for southeastern Idaho. Terry’s meeting with the college of technology at ISU isn’t that much of a long shot. The nuclear reactor he wants to build

Talk of banning spuds may sound impossible in Idaho, but the federal government is proposing to do just that when it comes to school lunches. Second graders at Shelley’s Sunrise Elementary school love their spuds. “I like every single kind of potatoes. Mashed, fried … french fries. I love any kind,” said 8-year-old Robin Bryant.

During most winters, storms bring long periods of heavy rain and snow to the Pacific Northwest. In addition to extended rain, flooding can also occur due to ice jams, where large flows of ice pile up. This pile-up of ice can act like a dam, causing water to back up and flood. Warm weather can

Snow, Ice, Avalanche and Blizzards are the most common of Winter’s many hazards. Winter storms are a frequent occurence across the Pacific Northwest. Many of these storms bring snow amounts that cause road closures, especially through the mountain passes. Wind, in combination with the snow, can cause reduced visibility and deep snow drifts. Along with

Are you ready for winter weather? A goal of the National Weather Service is to provide information on winter storms, with enough advance notice to allow the whole community to take actions needed to prepare for and deal with adverse and sometimes dangerous weather conditions. As the threat of severe winter weather draws closer, and

People with diabetes are affected every day by their disease. Often times the patients have very strict diets. When a diabetes patient receives insulin treatment, it is critical to survive the disease, but it also has side effects. Living with diabetes is a lifestyle. Deidre Bowman, 61, knows this all too well. She was diagnosed

Cuts to Idaho-Smiles have left many frowning. The contracting company which administers the Medicaid-funded dental care program recently decided to eliminate nearly 200 providers in the state. “I’m too giving? Is that the problem?” questioned Dr. Justin Bell. As a dentist at Idaho Falls’ Foothills Dental Care, Bell said he’s frustrated. “We’ve gone from a

(AP) – An Idaho State University geosciences professor said there’s strong evidence a previously unidentified fault line extends 65 miles along the base of the Sawtooth Mountain Range in central Idaho. Glenn Thackray says his research has led him to conclude that it’s a major, active fault, which would make it Idaho’s fourth major active