Month: August 2020

Governor Brad Little has appointed longtime department employee Jess Byrne as director of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality.

The Shoal Creek fire started in the scar of the 2016 Cliff Creek Fire Sunday.

Jackson voters will have an additional question on their November general election ballot.

Rain showers and even some snow flurries were expected Monday over the perimeter of the Lone Star forest fire in Yellowstone National Park.

The good will of people is creating some problems for shepherds.

A national firefighting team will transfer authority over the Bear Creek Fire to the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Monday.

The Eastern Idaho Interagency Fire Center is monitoring two, small, new fires near the Idaho-Wyoming border.

Yellowstone National Park officials report the elk rut has begun in Yellowstone.

UPDATE 9/3/2020: The Bingham County Sheriff’s Office reported Wednesday Starkey has been located by her family and is home safe.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the last and final phase of review of the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) design certification.

Yellowstone National Park reports the road between Mud Volcano and Fishing Bridge Junction will remain temporarily closed while park staff assesses the impacts of a gasoline spill from an overturned tandem trailer on a commercial motor vehicle.

The lightning-caused Lone Star Fire in Yellowstone National Park has burned 850 acres.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the last and final phase of review of the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) design certification.

The Idaho State Board of Education has approved a contract extension with Chartwells Higher Education, operating as Bengal Dining Services at Idaho State University.

The Bear Creek fire, 29 miles east of Salmon, is now 75% contained, according to the Eastern Idaho Interagency Fire Center.

Idaho State Police say they are seeing more close calls when it comes to car and train collisions.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (KIFI/KIDK)-Governor Mark Gordon has extended all current public Wyoming Department of Health orders with no changes.Wyoming has averaged 35 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 per day over the past 14 days, compared to an average of 27 cases per day from July 30 to August 12.   According to its COVID-19 Dashboard, Wyoming calls that

Sixteen Idaho volunteers have been dispatched by the American Red Cross to help with fire relief efforts in California.

No one was seriously hurt in an apartment house fire on Old Butte Road, shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Fire crews are responding to a lightning-caused fire approximately three miles west of Georgetown.

Pacific Creek Landing, in Grand Teton National Park, will close for construction beginning September 1.

Yellowstone National Park Rangers closed the road between Mud Volcano and Fishing Bridge Junction after a semi-tractor trailer overturned Thursday.

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality is lifting an air pollution forecast and caution for all of southeast Idaho.

Idahoans filed 3,794 new initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits in the past week. That is up 4%, or 150 claims, from last week.