An Idaho man imprisoned for more than two decades for bombing a Planned Parenthood clinic and robbing a bank in Spokane Valley in 1996 walked free from federal custody this week.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) – A low-flying helicopter last weekend harassed a work crew building a public trail on an easement crossing private land that connects the popular tourist destinations of Redfish Lake and Stanley in central Idaho, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
The department on Wednesday asked a judge to prohibit future harassment during work on the trail that’s at the center of a federal lawsuit.
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Next week’s primary elections in Utah will be slightly different due to legislation passed to accommodate struggles voters may have faced during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Utah reported its second-highest daily number of new coronavirus cases Thursday as the state deals with a troubling surge that has already led the state’s Republican governor to enact a face mask requirement at certain state buildings and pause before lifting more business restrictions.
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Some students at the University of Wyoming will be allowed to share dorm rooms under a revised plan to resume in-person classes during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Utah Gov. Gary Hebert said Wednesday he will require face masks at state-run buildings that include liquor stores and higher education offices and approve a request from the state’s largest county to make face coverings required in certain situations.
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The Bannock County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the Marsh Valley School District superintendent was attacked with a baseball bat on Tuesday.
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An animal shelter halted pet adoptions and five restaurants sanitized facilities Wednesday amid a spike in coronavirus cases in Wyoming’s capital city.
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A state official has apologized after a family was sent masks featuring a gun, the American flag and the phrase “don’t tread on me” as part of a program offering free face coverings during the coronavirus pandemic.
Continue Reading Health officials worry an event in Wyoming’s capital city last weekend could worsen a spike in coronavirus cases.
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Gov. Gary Herbert says he has no plans to shut down the economy even though he shares some of the concerns of the state’s epidemiologist.
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A Wyoming mayor resigned after being charged with using police department records for her personal benefit.
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A criminal investigation into a retired Roman Catholic bishop accused of childhood sexual abuse by more than a dozen men remains open, police in Wyoming said.
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Brigham Young University police were searching for the people who vandalized an on-campus statue of Brigham Young.
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A former Arizona politician pleaded guilty in Utah Friday to human smuggling and other charges filed in an illegal adoption scheme that stretched across three states and involved women from the Marshall Islands.
Continue Reading Nine rural counties in Utah will move into the green health risk status beginning Friday after recording some of the state’s lowest COVID-19 case counts and hospitalization rates, state officials said.
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Former Utah first lady Mary Kaye Huntsman, wife of current Republican candidate for governor Jon Huntsman Jr., said Thursday she has tested positive for COVID-19 just as her husband recovers from having the virus.
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Utah state leaders said Wednesday that updated plans intended to help drive economic recovery won’t compromise the health of residents even though the state is experiencing a multi-week rise in cases.
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Boise County prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against an Idaho man accused of fatally shooting an 11-year-old boy in March.
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A train operated by Union Pacific Railroad derailed in Wyoming, causing several rail cars to catch on fire and explode.
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They’ve been pulled from steep canyons and rushing rivers, sometimes no longer breathing, after chasing a cryptic poem’s clues and promise of treasure deep into the Rocky Mountains.
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U.S. officials will delay the repair of an impassable northern Idaho road in important grizzly bear habitat near the Canadian border because of a lawsuit filed by environmentalists, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
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The United States Geological Survey reports a magnitude 4.1 quake hit Central Idaho Tuesday morning.
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A Republican lawmaker in Utah said Friday he’ll support police reform legislation championed by the NAACP aimed at ending brutality and racial profiling in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
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A woman was found dead at an oilfield site in northeastern Wyoming.
Continue Reading The Wyoming Department of Transportation plans to close 10 highway rest areas to save money amid a budget crisis.
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The owner of an Idaho meat-rendering plant where an employee died earlier this year has been fined more than $63,000 by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Continue Reading A mother killed her 5-year-old son and then herself at their home in Idaho, police said.
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Federal officials on Thursday announced that a northern Idaho county with a drug-trafficking problem will be included in a regional enforcement network and will face a crackdown.
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Police in northeastern Wyoming say a man fatally shot another man in the head.
Continue Reading University of Wyoming officials have drafted a plan to resume classes on campus with a modified schedule next school year, provided the state helps with funding.
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Four roommates in Wyoming were charged in criminal court on suspicion of violating a quarantine order issued because of their exposure to COVID-19, prosecutors said.
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The Just Dandy women’s clothing store in downtown Cheyenne has endured fire, flooding, recessions and so far the coronavirus pandemic, but will this year’s cancellation of the city’s famous cowboy-and-rodeo festival, Cheyenne Frontier Days, be the daddy-of-’em-all disaster?
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A grizzly bear has mauled a mountain biker on a trail near the Spanish Peaks Mountain Club in southern Montana, causing severe injuries to his face and neck.
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Authorities say a police officer was killed and another officer injured in a shootout with man whose wife called police to report he had threatened to kill her.
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Police say a man accused of choking and stabbing a woman after meeting her on the popular dating app Tinder asked police to shoot him after reporting the killing.
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One person is dead following a shooting in a small Idaho community, authorities said.
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A 25-year-old Post Falls man who was sentenced to prison three years ago for having sex with a 14-year-old girl got a reprieve this week as a state appellate court ruled the sentencing decision may have been too hasty.
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Wyoming’s unemployment rate more than doubled to 9.2% in April amid an energy-market downturn and measures to control the coronavirus.
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The number of unemployment claims filed in Wyoming has dropped as the state eases coronavirus-related restrictions.
Continue Reading A child testing positive for the coronavirus has prompted the closure of a Wyoming daycare center and testing of 32 employees and children.
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A surge in local cases of the coronavirus blamed on people not following social distancing recommendations or wearing face masks in public has prompted the cancellation of a Memorial Day car show in Wyoming.
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A Utah state trooper has helped a pair of newborn moose calves reunite safely with their mother.
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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock says the state will further ease coronavirus restrictions in two weeks.
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Gov. Brad Little’s desire to make a significant course change involving a politically charged strategy on how to invest millions of dollars to benefit public schools and other beneficiaries has been rejected by his fellow members on the Idaho Land Board.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of what was Wyoming’s lone inmate on death row, possibly clearing the way for his execution.
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A Wyoming teacher charged with first-degree murder for the shooting death of her fiancee allegedly told deputies she feared he would beat her.
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The chief of the University of Utah police department is ordering a new, outside investigation into allegations that an officer showed off explicit photos of a woman reporting she was being extorted by a man she had dated, shortly before he killed her.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has started work to temporarily remove a damaged statue from the church’s Salt Lake Temple.
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An Idaho woman has been charged with murder in connection with the death of her infant son.
Continue Reading A man is dead and an elementary school teacher in jail after a shooting in Wyoming’s capital city.
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A handful of legislators met in person at the Wyoming Capitol and the rest by computer video Friday for a special session to address the coronavirus pandemic and its growing economic toll.
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) – For many College of Eastern Idaho students today was filled with many virtual smiles and comments. Not the usual celebration they hoped for at the beginning of the semester. “It’s not how we would like to do it,” CEI Dean of Student Affairs, Mike Walker said. “We’re trying to do
Continue Reading Utah Gov. Gary Herbert will further relax coronavirus-related restrictions across much of the state.
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(KIFI/KIDK) A sizable aftershock rocked central and western Idaho Wednesday evening. The United States Geological Survey reports, a magnitude 4.4 quake struck around 6:21 P.M.The epicenter was about 20 miles northwest of Stanley. This appears to be an aftershock form the magnitude 6.5 quake, which struck on March 31st. The USGS reports several hundred people
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A Wyoming sheriff’s officer was justified when he shot and killed a man who was carrying an ax, a prosecutor announced Monday.
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Conservation groups on Monday asked the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission to sharply limit the number of endangered wolves that are killed over conflicts with livestock.
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On a beautiful spring day, under normal circumstances, parks around the City of Pocatello would be buzzing. Even though they aren’t, the parks and recreation department has been hard at work.
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The Gallatin County, Montana Sheriff’s Office is looking for a suspect wanted for “Sexual Intercourse Without Consent” investigation.
Continue Reading Wyoming lawmakers are considering a bill for an upcoming special session that would provide $50 million in grants and loans to small businesses affected by the coronavirus.
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California’s first cases of elk hoof disease have been discovered in two animals in a herd of Roosevelt elk that live in Del Norte County, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said.
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In areas like southeastern Idaho, where there are fewer than 20 confirmed cases, people like Portneuf Medical Center’s Chief Medical Officer, Daniel Snell, are happily surprised by the numbers.
Continue Reading Officials in Wyoming plan to use wastewater testing as a potential method for detecting levels of COVID-19 infections among the public.
Continue Reading A group of inmates at Idaho’s largest prison is suing the state for overcrowding, saying cell blocks are so packed that the prison department can’t maintain sanitary toilets, putting them at risk during the coronavirus outbreak.
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A northern Idaho lawmaker has been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack.
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Tuesday marks the start of a new era for District Five of the Idaho State Police as the district received the motorcycles for its first-ever Police Motor Unit.
Continue Reading The body of a man missing in a Wyoming canyon has been found.
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A group of Idaho State University students is celebrating its success in a national competition.
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Rare video of an ice shove on the Blackfoot Reservoir.
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the South East Idaho Behavioral Crisis Center wants the community to know that it’s there for those in need.
Continue Reading Due to social distancing guidelines, a traditional graduation is out of the question. Instead, School District 25 will be holding a graduation procession.
Continue Reading In early April, the Department of Environmental Quality – at the request of the EPA – installed an ozone monitor at the department’s existing air quality measuring station off of Garrett Way in Pocatello.
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A study shows that fault lines along the Wasatch Front in north-central Utah are much bigger than initially thought.
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The Bear Lake Valley turns out to a car rally to unite and show support for several grieving families.
Continue Reading A complaint has been filed to the IRS about the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s 501(c)(3) status after the group was allegedly involved in “illegal” activities.
Continue Reading The Coeur d’Alene Casino has reopened some of its restaurants with social distancing efforts in place and face mask requirements.
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Some Wyoming school districts are deciding to remain closed for the rest of the school year.
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The Bannock Youth Foundation brought together eight mayors, representing the seven counties in southeast Idaho to officially proclaim April as Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Continue Reading A man died while scuba diving in a Wyoming reservoir, authorities said.
Continue Reading The Pocatello Christian Outreach Center held its fourth Loads of Love drive at the Pine Ridge Mall on Saturday.
Continue Reading Coronavirus has impacted the supply chain for much of the food industry and the local cattle market is feeling the effects.
Continue Reading Businesses such as salons and restaurants will be able to resume regular business during the second stage, should all criteria be met. With a target date of May 16, many businesses are hoping to see things get back on track.
Continue Reading Without students, Bingham Academy has put its 3D printers to good use, enrolling them in the fight against coronavirus.
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) – Businesses have been creative in taking new approaches to keep customers safe during this pandemic. The Eastern Idaho Public Health Department is trying to get more places back up and running. “We talked about the social distancing measures and it’s something that we need to maybe consider as a new
Continue Reading A city council in Wyoming has decided for a second time not to punish people who violate state health orders intended to limit spread of the coronavirus.
Continue Reading Police say workers found human bones while digging in a back yard in Wyoming’s capital city.
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A former Boise priest convicted of possessing violent and extreme child pornography will be sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, an appellate court ruled.
Continue Reading A group of classic car lovers has found a way to continue meeting in person, even with social distancing guidelines.
Continue Reading An Idaho resident was issued a citation after authorities say she was in violation of Republican Gov. Brad Little’s stay-at-home order after continuing with a yard sale despite warnings.
Continue Reading Boise State head football coach Bryan Harsin and other coaches and athletic department employees earning more than $40,000 per year will be furloughed.
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Utah state health officials say all but one of Utah’s 28 confirmed coronavirus deaths have been people over the age of 55.
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Flanked by bodyguards wearing virus-protection face masks, Gov. Mark Gordon told about 100 raucous protesters Monday he didn’t know when Wyoming would get back to normal but he’s talking with state officials about how to reopen businesses.
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The Utah Department of Public Safety announced Sunday that it will stop texting Amber Alerts to cellphones after an alert was sent that did not have the required information.
Continue Reading A local woman is helping seniors commemorate a special graduation with unique stickers.
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Watkins Distributing makes a donation to first responders and healthcare workers on the front line of COVID-19 defense.
Continue Reading In these unprecedented times, people are doing things at home they may never have expected to.
Continue Reading Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says the state is aiming to reopen restaurants and gyms and resume elective surgeries in early May under a plan to gradually reopen the economy that has been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Hailey City Council voted to allow Hailey’s Isolation Order to expire at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, 2020.
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Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) is looking for a construction partner to help prove the value of new nuclear power reactor technology.
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Idaho State Police have arrested a homicide suspect who police say fatally shot at least one man in Coeur d’Alene.
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