Reward doubled for information in Tripod moose poaching case
Citizens Against Poaching is now offering a $1,200 reward for information about the recent moose poaching case that took place west of Tripod Meadow,…
Continue ReadingCitizens Against Poaching is now offering a $1,200 reward for information about the recent moose poaching case that took place west of Tripod Meadow,…
Continue ReadingNational Park Service investigators are looking for information related to the illegal shooting of a collared black-colored gray…
Continue ReadingDue to unforeseen COVID-19 related circumstances, the Snake River Animal Shelter will be closed to volunteers and the public until Nov. 17, 2020.…
Continue ReadingMore than 600 dogs and cats flew across the Pacific Ocean from crowded Hawaii shelters to Washington state, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, where there’s…
Continue ReadingThe saucer-sized footprints in the mud around the bloody, disemboweled bison carcass were unmistakable:…
Continue ReadingA meager return of sockeye salmon to central Idaho this year despite high hopes and a new fish hatchery intended to help save the species from…
Continue ReadingA 5-year-old Pocatello girl was surprised to see the mayor show up at her house last Thursday.…
Continue ReadingThe Snake River Animal Shelter is partnering with Best Friends Animal Society to designate Saturday as Strut Your Mutt Day…
Continue ReadingThree bull moose were illegally shot and killed in Valley County in west-central Idaho, Idaho officials say, and a fourth bull moose was shot at but…
Continue ReadingDonations from a recent women’s hunting event will directly benefit food pantries in the state, officials…
Continue ReadingFish and Game will soon be trapping and translocating up to 70 antlerless elk in the Little Camas region of southern Idaho to reduce the size of the…
Continue ReadingWildlife officials are investigating the killing of a federally protected grizzly bear near Coyote Meadows in Fremont County that had been part of a…
Continue ReadingIdaho Department of Fish and Game officers recently took possession of several exotic reptiles from an Idaho Falls area residence.…
Continue ReadingThe Pocatello Animal Services is taking a new approach to an age-old problem: stray…
Continue ReadingThe Pocatello Animal Shelter will be closed Monday, September 14 while staff installs new cat kennels at the…
Continue ReadingTwo barns at the Eastern Idaho State Fair took a hit during Labor Day’s powerful winds.…
Continue ReadingThe Idaho Falls Zoo will be moving to fall hours on Tuesday.…
Continue ReadingSome 95,114 wild horses and burros roam free throughout the United States, according to a March 1 count by the federal Bureau of Land…
Continue ReadingOfficials in a Wyoming city have decided not to prohibit feeding feral cats and…
Continue ReadingIdaho Fish and Game is asking the public for information regarding the recent poaching of two doe mule deer shot and left to waste near Elk Bend,…
Continue ReadingWildlife officials in Idaho have said a mountain lion attacked and killed a horse this weekend while it was…
Continue Reading– Late-Summer through Early-Fall is the time of year Idahoans are most likely to come face to face with the infamous hobo…
Continue ReadingThe growth of the elk population in parts of Idaho has caused state wildlife officials to step up efforts to reduce the number of animals damaging…
Continue ReadingSeveral upcoming fundraising events at the Idaho Falls Zoo have been canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions.…
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 has spoiled a lot of summer fun, but the annual Bonneville County 4-H Fair is in full swing with a few adjustments to this year’s…
Continue ReadingLocal artist Josh Pohlman has completed a 7’7” tall and 47’ long mural on the dog runs along the west side of the Pocatello Animal Shelter.…
Continue ReadingWildlife officials in Yellowstone National Park have documented seven grizzly bear encounters resulting in injuries so far this year, an increase…
Continue ReadingThe Bureau of Land Management will host a wild horse auction in Bruneau July 14-21.…
Continue ReadingA U.S. appeals court said Wednesday that a federal judge was right to restore protections for about 700 grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region of…
Continue ReadingThe 4th of July marks one of the busiest days of the year for animal shelters…
Continue ReadingU.S. wildlife officials have agreed to decide by the end of August whether climate change and other threats are pushing the rare wolverine closer to…
Continue ReadingThe Chubbuck Police Department reports a theft occurred at 1 a.m. at Mckee’s Pet, Garden, and Feed Center on Friday.…
Continue ReadingIdaho Public Health officials are reporting two bats have tested positive for rabies and were found in separate homes in Ada County.…
Continue ReadingIdaho Department of Fish and Game report after a relatively mild winter, 73% of radio-collared elk calves and 63% of mule deer fawns survived through…
Continue ReadingA large elk population continues to lure wolves to cattle ranches in Jackson Hole.…
Continue ReadingThe Wyoming Game and Fish Department has killed a black bear that was believed to be the subject of several complaints in northwestern Wyoming near…
Continue ReadingThe Blackfoot Animal Shelter & Rescue has released an update about an accident on Interstate 15 that killed two people and more than a dozen dogs…
Continue ReadingIdaho Department of Fish and Game staff captured a sow grizzly and her yearling cub in the Yale Creek area of Island Park after the bears were seen…
Continue ReadingCats can infect other cats with the novel coronavirus, but they may not show any symptoms, according to a study published…
Continue ReadingIdaho Department of Fish and Game officers killed an adult male mountain lion that exhibited no fear of humans and made no attempt to flee the area…
Continue ReadingConservation groups on Monday asked the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission to sharply limit the number of endangered wolves that are killed over…
Continue ReadingThree environmental groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. government from killing coyotes and other predators in Idaho until…
Continue ReadingA lawsuit seeking to ban using bait for hunting black bears in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming can continue, a federal judge has…
Continue ReadingYou can license your dog with Pocatello Animal Services for half-price through May…
Continue ReadingAn unruly grizzly bear that fell for a trap last week in Wyoming was captured and killed by wildlife officials who had their radar on the animal for…
Continue ReadingAttorneys for the U.S. government and the state of Wyoming urged an appeals court Tuesday to throw out much of a judge’s ruling that blocked the…
Continue ReadingIdaho Department of Fish and Game staff systematically placed nearly 600 game cameras across Idaho to document and count the population of wolves in…
Continue ReadingThe Idaho Falls Zoo is scheduled to open on May 16th with social distancing and other safety guidelines.…
Continue ReadingCoronavirus has impacted the supply chain for much of the food industry and the local cattle market is feeling the effects.…
Continue ReadingThe wolf population in Wyoming has reached about 300 animals, around the same number of wolves wildlife managers aimed to have before hunting was…
Continue ReadingJackson Hole Fire/EMS rescued a dog that was trapped in a badger hole…
Continue ReadingYellowstone Bear World will be open for drive-thru only for the next two weekends.…
Continue ReadingRIGBY, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK)- What’s old is new again at two Eastern Idaho dairy farms. At Reed’s Dairy, the classic milkman is appearing on more…
Continue ReadingThe Blackfoot Animal Shelter and Rescue (BASR) will be limiting its public counter services at least through April 15 to help combat the spread of…
Continue ReadingGov. Brad Little’s state-wide stay-home order doesn’t include essential services like law enforcement, but agencies are still feeling the effects of…
Continue ReadingThe Snake River Animal Shelter not only provides food for the dogs and cats at the shelter but also to the community pet owners in need.…
Continue ReadingWildlife advocates on Wednesday asked a U.S. judge to force the government into deciding if the snow-loving wolverine should be federally protected…
Continue ReadingMore than a dozen wolves were killed last month to help curb struggling elk populations in north-central Idaho, wildlife officials…
Continue ReadingTwin, nine-week old bear cubs made their way onto the Local News 8 set Friday morning to help announce the exciting news they’ll be on a brief “tour”…
Continue ReadingThe first confirmed grizzly bear sighting in Yellowstone National Park of 2020 occurred on…
Continue ReadingState wildlife authorities are investigating a poaching incident after a sturgeon carcass was found in the Boise…
Continue ReadingIdaho Department of Fish and Game reports a bull elk was shot twice approximately 30 yards off of the Dingle Pond road, in Dingle in Bear Lake County…
Continue ReadingIdaho Fish and Game is looking for information regarding a poaching incident south of Driggs.…
Continue ReadingOne of the last and largest wild bison populations in North America has begun its migration out of Yellowstone National Park into southwestern…
Continue ReadingThe Idaho Department of Fish and Game is reporting an additional 32 pronghorn have been killed in a second train accident in eastern…
Continue ReadingWatershed Guardians and Idaho Fish and Game have separately been tracking the beaver activity in the area, and both have noticed a drop in…
Continue ReadingIf your Valentine’s Day quest for unconditional love was unsuccessful, it’s not too late to find some at the Smooches for Pooches event at the…
Continue ReadingA train collided with a small group of elk near Dingle in Bear Lake County early Sunday morning.…
Continue ReadingThe Pocatello Pet Lodge and Pocatello Pet Lodge, Too owner is the Idaho State University Alpha Kappa Psi Delta Upsilon Chapter 61st Idaho Business…
Continue ReadingA group of 150 elk moved out of Teton Canyon earlier this week and headed west towards Highway 20 near Sugar City, again causing concern for passing…
Continue ReadingU.S. and Wyoming officials are offering cash rewards for useful information as they investigate the poisoning deaths of three dogs and dozens of…
Continue ReadingWildlife managers relocated or killed substantially fewer grizzly bears in northwestern Wyoming in 2019 compared to…
Continue ReadingDespite the odds, the “World’s Worst Cat” has just been adopted into a loving family. The Mitchell County Animal Rescue in North…
Continue ReadingEnvironmental groups have filed a new lawsuit against the feeding of elk on a Wyoming wildlife refuge, saying the U.S. government should act sooner…
Continue ReadingIdaho Fish and Game wildlife biologists rushed to the rescue of a bull elk that had become entangled in a hay tarp in the Monteview area Thursday…
Continue ReadingLindsay Christensen had already held the title of Extreme Huntress when she was named Ultimate Extreme Huntress earlier this month.…
Continue ReadingIdaho Department of Fish and Game officials are being criticized for taking part in a research project that led to the killing of 206 elk across…
Continue ReadingThe director of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game on Thursday said there are an estimated 1,000 wolves in…
Continue ReadingIn the halls of Franklin Middle School, Shayne Hughes’ class has become pretty famous.…
Continue ReadingSome areas in Idaho would be declared wolf-free zones, and other areas where the animals have killed livestock would have increased wolf-killing…
Continue ReadingThe Palisades Ranger District of the Caribou-Targhee National Forest has restricted dogs from using groomed Nordic trails near Kelly Canyon until…
Continue ReadingSome call them a nuisance and others say they love them. A flock of wild turkeys has seemingly arrived in the area around South Mink Creek Road out…
Continue ReadingA critically endangered one-pound cotton-top female tamarin has a new home at the Idaho Falls…
Continue ReadingAfter sharing Ivan’s story last week he has been reunited with his…
Continue ReadingFoul weather has postponed plans to kill nonnative mountain goats in Grand Teton National…
Continue ReadingOne unique cat at the Idaho falls Animal Shelter may come with a lot of…
Continue ReadingFive mountain lion attacks in the past week have left dogs injured and dead in the Wood River…
Continue ReadingA McCammon man found his way into the Idaho record books, during a fishing trip to Bear Lake December…
Continue ReadingPublic land managers say the number of eagles flocking to northern Idaho’s Lake Coeur d’Alene has unexpectedly dropped.…
Continue ReadingThe Idaho Fish and Game Commission decided to reopen steelhead fishing in the Clearwater River and lower Snake River downstream of Couse Creek Boat…
Continue ReadingTwo wolves from the Junction Butte Pack were fatally hit around sunset on the road between Tower Junction and the Northeast Entrance on Nov. 19…
Continue ReadingThe Interior Department, Idaho and Wyoming are appealing a court ruling that halted a Trump administration plan to ease land-use restrictions in…
Continue ReadingWhen temperatures fall in December and January, duck hunting in Idaho — particularly in the southwest part of the state — often heats up with the…
Continue ReadingThe Bureau of Land Management has released 52 wild horse studs and nine mares back into the Challis Wild Horse Herd Management…
Continue ReadingJoin Santa and the merry elves of the Snake River Animal Shelter for their free Meowy Howlidays Celebration on…
Continue ReadingWildlife activists want Colorado voters to decide next year if the endangered gray wolf should be reintroduced in the state decades after it was…
Continue ReadingIdaho Fish and Game staff have started using low-flying helicopters to count deer and elk populations.…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – U.S. wildlife officials will review whether more protections are needed for grizzly bears in the Lower 48 states after animal…
Continue ReadingThe Idaho Department of Fish and Game is asking the public’s help regarding a cow elk that was shot and left to waste on private property west of…
Continue ReadingThe Snake River Animal Shelter will be at Wackerli Subaru this Saturday, Nov. 30 with some of the animals that are available and ready for adoption.…
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