Month: April 2011

Are you missing a goat? Perhaps one that likes the piano? A mother and child had a goat follow them into the Piano Gallery Store in Ammon on Monday. A store clerk used an extension cord as a leash and kept it until Animal Control could pick it up. The goat, now named Beethoven for

The Bible says Christ used a few loaves and fishes to feed 5,000. A local charity thinks the community’s generosity will be able to do even better. Members of the Feeding the 5,000 Families Food Drive set up at grocery stores in the Pocatello area to get donations for the Idaho Food Bank. Although they’d

If you have a tendency to text and drive, you might want to get rid of the bad habit before paying a hefty fine, or worse, causing an accident. Last night the Rexburg City Council passed a new ordinance making it illegal to text and drive, as well as texting while crossing the street. The

The eastern Idaho economy is still making a slow recovery out of the recession, but Rexburg is seeing a lot of expansion not in just university students, but local businesses as well. Rexburg has seen huge growth over the last few years as BYU-Idaho continues to expand, and the university growth is also paving the

Energy is a hot topic these days and the Center for Advanced Energy Studies, or CASE, in Idaho Falls is looking to tap the abundance of heat below our feet. The center is hosting its first ever geothermal energy workshop. Leaders said Idaho is a hot spot for geothermal energy, but there are also a

The so-called nullification bill that Republican state legislators worked so hard to pass is now dead. Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter vetoed it in favor of his own executive order, which blocks portions of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law. The order says state agencies cannot implement or receive federal dollars for the Patient Protection

There was good news on Monday for anyone fed up with the four-hour drive to Boise. A Pacific northwest airline carrier is interested in relaunching nonstop flights from Idaho Falls to Boise as early as this summer. Seaport Airlines is a regional carrier and said it’s very enthusiastic about the service. It said Horizon Airlines