The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is hosting a public open house for its new Montpelier, Idaho, temple from September 10 through September 26 before its formal dedication on October 18.
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First responders are on the scene of a crash involving a motorhome on US Highway 26 near the Conant boat ramp that sent two people to the hospital Monday.
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Local News 8 anchor Doug Long rescued an injured hawk from a road in Ammon and coordinated with a deputy to transport the bird to the Teton Raptor Center for treatment.
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On a tip from the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, Madison County detectives acquired a warrant to search a home in Sugar City.
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A 31-year-old Clark County man is in custody after investigators with the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children Unit (ICAC) found him in possession of child pornography.
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Since the 1950s, the Idaho National Lab, known locally as “the site,” has been the testing grounds for nuclear reactors for both the Department of Energy and the U.S. Military. But producing any type of energy is not without risk of accidents, and the site has seen three.
The first was a deliberate destructive test at the Borax-1 reactor in 1954. The second was in 1955 at the now famous EBR-1 known for generating the first usable electricity from atomic energy. Neither of those accidents injured anyone, and there was no threat of radioactive contamination.
But the third accident, in January of 1961, was much worse. That accident was deadly.
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December 20th, 1951, was a big day for the United States and southeast Idaho. On that day 75 years ago, EBR-1, the experimental breeder reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory, became the world’s first nuclear reactor to generate usable electricity from atomic energy, initially powering four light bulbs, then an entire building, and eventually the town of Arco.
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On September 20, 1995, just before sunset, the town’s tranquility was shattered by a single, sharp rifle crack. Lava Hot Springs was about to become world famous: the lions of Ligertown were on the prowl.
For those who grew up in the shadow of Ligertown, the presence of the big cats had become a strange kind of normal. Bonnie Hansen, Bruce and Colleen’s daughter, remembers clearly what it was like having the big cats as neighbors.
“Growing up, it was normal to hear the lions roar morning and night, and so every night before the sun would go down, the lions would roar and the wolves would howl,” says Bonnie Hansen. “That was normal for me growing up. I didn’t know how weird that was.”
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This is the first time in the 100 year history of the competition that any team from Idaho has made it this far.
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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a leak of approximately 16 billion login credentials, exposing the passwords in the largest leak ever reported. Researchers with Cybernews were the first to discover and report on the leak. In the last two days, multiple source,s including Forbes and TechRadar, have confirmed their report. Researchers are calling this “Weaponizable intelligence
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The Idaho Critical Incident Task Force is in the middle of its investigation for the Pocatello police shooting of Victor Perez.
Local News 8’s Doug Long spoke with a man who, for 15 years, had to walk a fine line between the men and women in blue and the public. His experience sheds light on the difficult task a city and community face in the aftermath of a police shooting.
In an exclusive interview with Senator Mike Crapo, Doug Long asks about recent Republican town hall meetings, the Trump tariffs,
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