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Governor Brad Little announced his appointment of Mathew Weaver as the new director of the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR).

The agency is hiring at least 10 seasonal team members to help meet the surging demand for wildfire equipment and supplies.

The fire is 83% contained, and the cause is undetermined. 

As of Wednesday, most of Idaho’s north region state parks are banning campfires and propane-fueled

The Clark County Sheriff’s Office reports a 13-year-old from Idaho Falls is missing.

The Hayden Fire has been mapped at 24,489 acres acres and is burning in steep and difficult terrain with spruce/subalpine fir containing a heavy dead/down timber component.

Serve Idaho recently received a $4,339,065 grant to fund the AmeriCorps programs in Idaho from 2023 to 2024.

Six university professors and two teachers’ unions are suing Idaho over a law that they say violates their First Amendment rights by criminalizing teaching about pro-abortion viewpoints.

The Salmon-Challis National Forest has detected two new fires since the last summary.  

The Lemhi County Sheriff’s Office lifted evacuations for residents in the Hayden Fire vicinity on Monday.

The Hayden Fire has been mapped at 24,489 acres acres and is burning in steep and difficult terrain with spruce/subalpine fir containing a heavy dead/down timber component.

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is hosting a public workshop on the agency’s triennial review of Idaho’s surface water quality standards.

The 2023 Chubbuck Days Celebration has been released as follows.

A coalition of math educators from across Idaho developed a series of lessons, called “Do the math. Save a life,” that use Idaho Office of Highway Safety (OHS) crash data to teach Algebra and data analysis skills.