Wyoming deputy saves 2 women after rafting accident
A Wyoming sheriff’s deputy helped rescue two women who were hanging onto tree branches after the raft they were in popped and sank in the North Platte River over the weekend.
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A Wyoming sheriff’s deputy helped rescue two women who were hanging onto tree branches after the raft they were in popped and sank in the North Platte River over the weekend.
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A fatal crash occurred Friday around milepost 124 on Interstate 90 near Gillette, Wyoming.
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Searchers are looking for a man who went missing in the Coeur d’Alene River while trying to retrieve a set of boat keys that had fallen into the water.
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Detectives are investigating the shooting death of a 7-year-old girl in Wasatch County.
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“We are anticipating our reservoir system, all the reservoirs, from Grassy Lake, Island Park, Jackson Lake, Palisades, American Falls, Ririe, and Minidoka Dam, or Lake Walcott, when you take all those storages together at the end of the year, we’re looking at the system being approximately 12% full to end the year,” Stevens said.
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A man who refused to wear a mask on an Allegiant flight departing from Utah has been fined $10,500.
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Governor Brad Little’s next “Capital for a Day” event will be held in Troy on July 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Troy Lion’s Club: 415 S Main St.
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Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said a Shoshone County woman was sentenced Tuesday for provider fraud.
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Colorado’s first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s has grown to include six pups.
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Salt Lake City has set another heat record, and high temperatures are expected to continue amid an excessive heat warning.
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Lighting storms with multiple strikes have resulted in fires in north and north central Idaho.
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Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced a Kootenai County woman was sentenced on Thursday for furnishing false information regarding a birth certificate, a felony under Idaho Code 39-273(a)(1).
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Landlords and tenants in Ada County have a new way to resolve certain eviction claims.
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The Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) program works to provide a level playing field for under-represented female and minority-owned businesses.
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Governor Brad Little announced his appointment of Bill Gilbert of Boise to the State Board of Education.
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Hospital leaders in Utah are renewing their pleas for people to get vaccinated as the state experiences another surge in COVID-19 cases from the faster-spreading delta variant.
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The Great Salt Lake in Utah has been shrinking for years, and a drought gripping the American West could make this year the worst yet.
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Several anti-mask protesters who disrupted a school district board meeting in Utah earlier this year are now facing criminal charges.
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Schools in Utah have gained access to an additional $205 million in federal relief after the U.S. Education Department approved plans from several states detailing how the funding will be used to get students caught up on learning.
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Wyoming’s first female federal district judge plans to semi-retire in 2022.
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The Idaho County sheriff’s office says residents of the small, remote community of Dixie are being evacuated as a wildfire threatens the area.
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Search and rescue teams are still looking for a 23-year-old woman who has not been in contact with family since last week, when she started a hike in the Beartooth Mountains, north of Yellowstone National Park.
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Governor Brad Little announced he appointed Matthew Roker of Caldwell as District Judge in the Third Judicial District and Derrick O’Neill of Boise as District Judge in the Fourth Judicial District.
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Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murder in the death of a Sandy woman whose body was discovered along a riverbank after had been reported missing.
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The Oregon Department of Agriculture has filed a temporary emergency rule requiring all mink ranchers to vaccinate their animals against COVID-19.
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Idaho State Police investigated a crash at 2050 E 1010 S, just south of Hazelton Sunday around 11:47 p.m.
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A person drowned Saturday in the North Platte River in Casper.
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A small earthquake Sunday struck a sparsely populated area of central Wyoming.
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The Nature Conservancy has closed its Silver Creek Preserve in central Idaho to fishing due to low water levels and extreme heat.
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Wildlife officials say a rare animal spotted in a Utah neighborhood is likely on the move in search of a new place to live.
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Sockeye salmon at risk from high water temperatures will be captured at an eastern Washington dam to save as many of the endangered fish headed for Idaho as possible.
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Officials in western Montana say huckleberry pickers found human remains near an Interstate 90 rest area in Montana near the Idaho border.
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A Wyoming man killed himself after authorities began searching his property for a woman missing since 2017.
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A heat wave in the U.S. West that brought three consecutive days of record-high temperatures to Lake Tahoe is forecast to continue into the holiday weekend across much of Nevada.
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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and other local leaders are urging state residents to forgo using personal fireworks this summer as the state faces a historic drought.
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As the West deals with a historic drought, officials in some cities are banning fireworks to help prevent more wildfires.
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Washington state is set to lift most of its COVID-19 restrictions even though it’s falling short of a 70% goal of those 16 and up initiating vaccination.
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Reports suspected water waste are keeping Ogden’s conservation coordinator busy this summer.
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Fire officials say a five-alarm fire ripped through a Salt Lake City apartment building early Monday morning, causing extensive damage. Salt Lake City Fire Capt.
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The Boise Police Department says 28 people were sickened when an unidentified chemical was spilled at a popular Boise public pool on Friday afternoon.
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A Wyoming man who asked a sheriff’s dispatcher why he hadn’t been arrested soon found himself in handcuffs.
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A small airplane crashed into an unoccupied house in northern Utah, killing the pilot.
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Many Americans aching for normalcy as pandemic restrictions end are looking forward to traditional Fourth of July fireworks.
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All the remaining snow at Grand Targhee Snow Tel station has melted off as of June 14.
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A Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper is seriously injured and a suspect is dead after a traffic stop around 3:26 p.m. Friday.
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Idaho State Police investigated a single-vehicle crash northbound SH46 at milepost 135, south of Fairfield Thursday around 7:42 a.m.
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Authorities say a 22-year-old Illinois man has died after in a shooting that left a teenager with gunshot wounds.
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A home on Lake Coeur d’Alene is for sale for $27 million, making it the most expensive home currently listed in Idaho and an indicator of what the real estate agent called an “entirely different type of wealth” coming into the fast-growing area.
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Montana commission has advanced proposed rules that would allow the use of snares to hunt wolves and extend the wolf trapping season after the Republican-controlled Legislature passed laws earlier this year meant to reduce the state’s wolf population.
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Authorities have started releasing cold water from a northern Idaho dam to keep Snake River water temperatures cool to help migrating salmon and steelhead.
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The police chief of the Salt Lake City suburb of Cottonwood Heights has been paid a $70,000 settlement after filing a lawsuit claiming the city had planned to wrongfully terminate him.
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Salt Lake City has issued a fireworks ban as drought conditions worsen throughout the state.
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A coalition of environmental advocacy groups is threatening to sue the state of Montana if it implements new laws passed earlier this year permitting the snaring of wolves and expanding trapping seasons.
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The Bureau of Land Management reports the Henry Fire was fully contained at 9:00 p.m. Tuesday.
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World champion rodeo cowboy and country music singer Chris LeDoux has returned to Cheyenne Frontier Days in the form of a huge statue.
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A family member has identified the victims of a plane crash in Utah last week as a Montana woman and her 6-year-old granddaughter.
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The mayor of Boise has proposed a budget that adds 17 police department workers, including 11 officers.
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Some rail shipments are delayed after about 15 train cars derailed in southeastern Wyoming.
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A retired fire captain was honored on Monday for his heroic efforts more than six decades ago.
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A Utah woman will serve up to 30 years in prison for her involvement with the death of a police officer as a teenager.
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Sheriff’s officials say a deputy shot and killed an adult pet chimpanzee named Buck after it attacked a woman in Eastern Oregon.
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Records show the number of people stopped from buying guns through the U.S. background check system hit an all-time high of more than 300,000 last year amid a surge of firearm sales.
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Dozens of wildfires are burning in hot, dry conditions across the U.S. West, including a blaze touched off by lightning that was moving toward northern Arizona’s largest city.
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Construction of a southeastern Wyoming wind farm could start as soon as 2023 after permitting begins this summer.
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A small plane crash that killed two people has also sparked a wildfire west of Salt Lake City.
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Record visitation and long lines at Arches National Park in Utah are reviving a push for a reservation system.
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A woman died this week after she fell more than 200 feet from a Wyoming peak while on a sunrise hike with her husband, according to the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office.
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The wind farms would add more than 1,600 megawatts of power capacity in Wyoming.
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Glacier National Park says it’s seeing more visitors showing up early in the morning and in the evening when the park’s new ticketed entry system is not in effect.
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Montana ’s firefighting aircraft are returning to duty Friday after a helicopter crash grounded a state agency fleet as major wildfires broke out this week.
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Home prices around Utah’s capital jumped a staggering 31% over the last year in the latest sign of Utah’s housing crisis.
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Cities in the U.S. West are preparing for considerable growth in the coming decades despite a historic drought and shrinking water supplies.
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A coalition of conservation groups is offering a $15,000 reward for information on the poaching of the breeding female of the Wedge wolf pack in northeastern Washington state.
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The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is suing Idaho Gov. Brad Little and state wildlife officials in federal court, contending the state has wrongly denied the tribe hunting rights guaranteed by the 1868 Treaty of Fort Bridger.
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A Colorado man accused of stabbing another man in a racist attack at an Oregon truck stop has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime.
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Much of the American West has been blasted with sweltering heat this week as a high pressure dome combines with the worst drought in modern history to launch temperatures into the triple digits, toppling records even before the official start of summer.
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Alaska Airlines is going to offering non-stop flights between Boise and the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport.
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Officials have approved a plan for Boise government to be carbon neutral by 2035 and the entire city by 2050 to fight climate change.
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Washington’s military, veterans and family members will be eligible for a new vaccine incentive lottery announced by Gov. Jay Inslee.
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Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced investigators with his Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit arrested a Boise man on Monday for alleged possession of child pornography.
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Republican state leaders are not currently planning to seek an all-out fireworks ban.
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moke is billowing out of a large structure fire in the Millcreek area in Salt Lake City.
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A group accused of beating a man to death behind a Utah grocery store may have done so because they believed he gave his pregnant girlfriend a black eye.
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A Utah state attorney angry about being awakened from a nap has apologized for sending an expletive-laden email to an LGBT politician campaigning to be the first Asian American elected to the Salt Lake City council.
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Health officials say 70% of eligible people in Washington state’s most populous county have received either the one-dose Johnson and Johnson COIVD vaccine or both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
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Wildfires burning in Montana have exploded in size over a 24-hour period and have triggered evacuations from rural areas.
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As Oregon inches closer to reaching the statewide vaccination target, at least 22 of the state’s 36 counties have moved into the “lower risk” level.
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Salt Lake City has set another heat record and is experiencing its hottest day of the year as the state’s record-breaking heat wave persists.
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The Robertson Draw Fire is threatening some homes in the Beartooth Mountains near Montana’s border with Wyoming.
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Transportation officials have reported nearly twice as many people died in alcohol-involved crashes on Utah roads last year compared to the year before, despite less commuter traffic during the coronavirus pandemic.
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A woman is dead after falling off a cliff in northern Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains.
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A wildfire sparked by an abandoned campfire is forcing evacuations south of Moab.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announced it will start to reopen Temple Square in Salt Lake City starting Tuesday.
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Several wildfires were burning Friday as weather forecasts called for hotter weather in the coming days.
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Gonzaga University is joining the list of schools that will require students to prove they are vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to participate in campus activities this fall.
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Salt Lake County prosecutors have ruled an officer was justified in shooting a man who fired a gun at him and attacked another officer.
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Two adjacent agriculture college endowment parcels amounting to 282 acres adjacent to Caldwell’s Vallivue High School and Middle School sold Friday for $35.2 million, plus a buyer’s premium of $1,408,000 with a total cost to the buyer of $36,608,000.
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School district officials in Idaho have started offering a full summer school program to catch up all students who may have fallen behind academically during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Washington’s new “joints for jabs” vaccination incentive program is off to a rough start.
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Two employees have died in an underground accident at the Stillwater palladium and platinum mine in southcentral Montana.
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