Month: September 2020

Bonneville County Democrats opened their 2020 campaign headquarters in Idaho Falls Friday.

Wyoming Game and Fish personnel captured a sub adult female grizzly bear Tuesday on private land west of Cody.

As part of Child Passenger Safety Week, the Idaho Office of Highway Safety is holding free, in-person child safety-seat checks Saturday.

Potatoes USA, the official marketer of American potato growers, reports that since public health restrictions were put in place, retail potato sales have soared well above historical levels.

Two Thomas Moran landscapes that have been touring the country for 50 years are returning to the Department of Interior Museum in Washington D.C.

The Idaho Department of Labor reports initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits last week dropped 6% to 3,437.

Jackson Hole Airport will receive over $28 million to help reconstruct the airport runway.

Federal and state land managers are lifting Stage One Fire Restrictions on eastern Idaho public lands beginning Friday.

The Bureau of Reclamation is transferring ownership of Minidoka Project water irrigation facilities to two irrigation districts, the Minidoka Irrigation District and the A&B Irrigation District in Magic Valley.

After a second staff member tested positive for COVID-19, The American Heritage Charter School told parents this week that the school would start Virtual Session for all grades beginning Wednesday.

The Idaho State Department of Transportation will be implementing a new software system (GEM) for all Department of Motor Vehicles offices statewide on October 13, 2020.

A pilot flying a Single Engine Air Tanker was killed at around 7 p.m. Tuesday during an initial attack operation on the Schill Fire, about 2 miles southeast of Emmett.

The U.S. Department of Energy has approved “Critical Decision 1” for the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) project.

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon testified before Senator John Barrasso’s (R-Wyo) Committee on Environment and Public Works Wednesday on a plan to update and modernize the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg will partner with Intermountain Healthcare (IHC) for Telehealth Critical Care beginning October 1.

Wyoming deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic have now risen to 50.

Bayer’s Soda Springs facility has presented the Idaho Foodbank with a $10,000 grant.

Yellowstone National Park officials discovered a new backcountry fire in the Heart Lake area late Monday morning.

No one was hurt when crosswinds blew a plane off the runway at Island Park Tuesday.

The Town of Jackson and Teton County, Wyoming have released a Request for Proposals seeking a qualified, multi-disciplinary planning consultant firm.

Jackson Police are investigating four cases of voyeurism and sexual battery that were reported around the same neighborhood of East Kelly Avenue.