A former state lawmaker is suing Idaho’s redistricting commission, contending that the new map redrawing Idaho’s 35 legislative districts is unconstitutional because it splits up more counties than necessary.
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Bonneville County Sheriff’s Search & Rescue was called out to Commissary Ridge, up above Fall Creek, for a pair of ATV riders who had gone off trail Thursday around 3:30 p.m.
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U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) celebrated the Senate’s passage of the Sergeant First Class Sean Cooley and Specialist Christopher Horton Congressional Gold Star Family Fellowship Program Act.
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Bonneville School District 93 will stay in the Moderate Risk phase next week, but the district’s numbers are starting to trend up.
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The holiday season is often lonely for residents of nursing homes and assisted living centers, and the pandemic has greatly increased the impact of the loneliness.
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The Festival of Trees in Idaho Falls kicks off Monday, Nov. 15, and volunteers are needed.
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Grand Teton National Park (GTNP), Trout Unlimited (TU), Bridger-Teton National Forest (BTNF), and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) announced Friday construction to complete Phase 2 of the Spread Creek Fish Passage Project has started.
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For Idaho Philanthropy Day, Jim Pletscher was honored as the ‘brightest star of eastern Idaho.’
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The Teton Valley Foundation was generously given a brand new Zamboni to use at Kotler Ice Arena in Victor.
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At some point in our lives, we all snore.
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U.S. government attorneys are set to appear before a federal judge to defend a decision from the waning days of the Trump administration that lifted protections for gray wolves across most of the country.
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN In the week since a Houston music festival turned deadly, questions have emerged about who should be held accountable for the nine people who died and the hundreds who were injured. Audience members at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Music Festival described an unruly crowd surge on November 5 that felt like a
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The wave of growth in East Idaho has presented new opportunities for developers in downtown Idaho Falls.
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Public records show police received multiple calls from people reporting an armed and threatening man in the months before he killed two people and injured at least four others in a shooting at a Boise shopping mall.
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On Thursday, the Bannock County Veterans Memorial Association is hosting its Veterans Day celebration.
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Students, Faculty, and staff of Blackfoot High School gathered at the Blackfoot Performing Arts Center for a Veterans Day assembly.
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Idaho’s Attorney General said Idaho has filed two lawsuits against the federal vaccine mandate.
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Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has defied federal guidance on COVID-19 booster shots by issuing an order allowing all residents 18 years old and older to get them.
Continue Reading A newborn baby will spend his first night at home Wednesday after contracting COVID-19 over the summer.
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By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Utah doctor is accused of lying about ill patients in his climbing party to get a helicopter rescue off Denali last spring. The U.S. attorney’s office in Alaska has charged Dr. Jason Lance of Ogden, Utah, with interfering with and violating the order of a
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COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A former northern Idaho school board member says a poll worker illegally handed out critical race theory information to voters on election day earlier this month. The Coeur d’Alene Press reports Thursday that Kootenai County Clerk Jim Brannon condemned such actions and asked anyone who witnessed wrongdoing at the polls
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The Idaho Falls Board of Trustees has given initial approval for the creation of a stand-alone Center for Career and Technical Education, which will fill a role in District 91’s efforts to prepare students for success beyond high school.
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Compass Academy students honor veterans with paper poppies.
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The Idaho State Department of Education has awarded federal grant funding to help 16 Idaho schools purchase new equipment for their National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.
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Eighth grade social studies teacher Jeff Cannon is helping his students understand the importance of Veteran’s day.
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The Bureau of Land Management is ditching the helicopter and instead is using bait to lure in wild horses just south of Challis.
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A Pocatello landmark will open to the public once again on Veterans Day.
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A former Idaho inmate who became the first person to receive court-ordered gender confirmation surgery after suing the Idaho Department of Correction is asking a judge to order the state to pay more than $2.8 million in attorney fees.
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Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin over incumbent Republican Gov. Brad Little in the 2022 race for governor.
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The East Idaho Vets Center which has moved from its former location in Pocatello held its grand opening on Wednesday.
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At the end of September 2021, Idaho National Laboratory (INL) reported another successful year of partnering with small business to provide the goods and services needed to achieve its missions.
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Some of those who bought a car last month from Tadd Jenkins Auto Group helped support local families with down syndrome children.
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Idaho officials reported 724 new COVID-19 cases and 22 new deaths Wednesday.
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The park hosted 316,662 recreation visits in October 2021, down 12% from October 2020 (359,889 visits), which was the busiest October on record.
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Governor Mark Gordon announced Wednesday Wyoming is continuing its challenge of unconstitutional federal vaccine mandates.
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Grizzly 399 and her four yearlings paid a visit to downtown Jackson Tuesday night around 10:30 pm and got a reception from law enforcement and wildlife authorities.
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Former State Representative Britt Raybould is making a run to get back to the Statehouse in Boise.
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Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra is welcoming new directors of assessment and certification, replacing two valued department heads who have moved on to new roles.
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Blue Cross of Idaho and the Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health (the Foundation) launched a three-week event to thank healthcare workers across Idaho for their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Looking for something free to do this weekend with the whole family?
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Idaho Transportation Department Chief Deputy Scott Stokes announced changes to the department’s executive leadership team, in preparation for his transition to Director of the agency next spring.
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Patty Sanchez, the Idaho State Board of Education’s academic affairs program manager, received national recognition Tuesday as the winner of an annual award presented by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) Association.
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Most universities don’t have their own food pantry for those in need, but Eyewitness News 3 anchor Todd Kunz found one.
Continue Reading Approximately 900,000 children ages 5 through 11 are expected to have received a first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine by the end of Wednesday, a White House official said. An announcement is expected to come later today.
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Yellowstone National Park is asking for public comment on revised Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) and service-related operating plans that will guide commercial services in the park for the next five years.
Continue Reading By Dana Bash, CNN Sometimes in politics it’s not so much what you say, it’s where you say it. Rep. Liz Cheney’s intolerance for former President Donald Trump’s lies and her fellow Republicans who “aid and abet” him are refrains we’ve heard from her in committee rooms and congressional hallways. But that razor-sharp rebuke landed
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The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) and Southwest District Health (SWDH) have confirmed the first death of an Idaho child due to COVID-19.
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An Idaho Falls Police officer was on a routine patrol Friday when they noticed a vehicle in a hotel parking lot that matched a vehicle that had been reported as stolen two days earlier.
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The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) will remove a railroad crossing on U.S. Highway 20 south of St. Anthony this week.
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The president of the state’s top business lobby group in a letter to Idaho lawmakers says the group will oppose any attempts by the Legislature to impose restrictions on businesses requiring COVID-19 vaccines.
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Republican-controlled Utah House approved new congressional maps Tuesday that set aside the work of a voter-approved independent redistricting commission in favor of boundaries that further carve up the Democratic-leaning Salt Lake County. GOP lawmakers say their maps better reflect the state as a whole
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) – A Bonneville County charter school got a big payoff Tuesday from the Idaho Lottery.
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A northern Idaho mayor is running for governor. Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad announced Monday in Lewiston that he’s running as a Democrat aiming to defeat first-term Republican Gov. Brad Little.
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A new affordable housing project in Pocatello is officially underway.
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Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said at a New Hampshire event on Tuesday that the United States is “confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before” in the form of former President Donald Trump, who she said is “attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional republic.”
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 738 new COVID-19 cases and 3 new deaths Tuesday.
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The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation (IDPR) would like to remind visitors the nine-month reservation window is now open for the 2022 season.
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A 46-year-old Fort Hall man was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for failure to register as a sex offender.
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If you have the most festive house on the block (or the most festive block in the city), the City of Chubbuck would like to know.
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In celebration and recognition of our veterans and active military and their family members, Smith’s Food & Drug Stores – a division of the Kroger Family of Stores – is hosting a virtual hiring event for veterans, active military and their family members on Wednesday
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The Rexburg Area Chamber of Commerce announced Janalyn Holt as their new President/CEO beginning January 1, 2022.
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The Pocatello Arts Council’s charity fundraiser to benefit The Idaho Foodbank’s Pocatello branch is underway.
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An official for Idaho is among the leaders who have made Monday the time to recognize the students who enter into second education for the first time in their family.
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The City of Ammon is partnering with Kneaders Bakery & Cafe to present the first Holiday Outdoor Decorating Contest.
Continue Reading It’s a fact: Eating too much fat can raise cholesterol, clog arteries, and contribute to the risk of stroke and other forms of heart disease — not to mention obesity, diabetes, cancer and a host of other conditions.
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN The number of homicides in the United States continued to rise in the first three quarters of 2021, but at a slower pace, one year after a record increase in murders that followed George Floyd’s killing, according to the latest quarterly report published Monday by the Council on Criminal Justice. A
Continue Reading The United States has reopened its borders to vaccinated international travelers, ending a 20-month travel ban at the same moment Europe is battling a surge of COVID-19 cases that has pushed the continent back into the epicenter of the pandemic.
Continue Reading The COVID-19 pandemic caused a 16% rise in expected deaths among the 38 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, hitting overall life expectancy in 24 out of 30 members, the organization said Tuesday.
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A local high school is preparing to dedicate a shrine to our countries freedom.
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The Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) will hold a media briefing about COVID-19 in Idaho at 2:30 p.m. (MDT) Tuesday.
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A former Idaho lawmaker has pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges and is scheduled to stand trial next spring.
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A first-term Republican representative says he’ll run for a seat in the Senate following redistricting that left him as the only elected official from either chamber in a reconfigured legislative district in southwestern Idaho.
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The Idaho Falls Public works department has been hard at work in recent weeks. Their goal, to remove all of the leaves that line the streets in residential areas of Idaho Falls.
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Two missing Oregon women were found in an Idaho forest Friday, the mother dead from the elements and the disabled daughter alive with their broken down vehicle.
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Due to the unprecedented way lawmakers are reconvening at the Statehouse next week, any laws they pass could end up in court and be declared null.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 1,192 new COVID-19 cases and 34 new deaths over the weekend.
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A group of Boise students is drafting legislation to require licensing for minors to purchase firearms.
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The Idaho State Department of Agriculture announced Monday hemp license applications for the 2022 calendar year are open.
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The seasonal closure of the North Pathway between the Town of Jackson and Grand Teton National Park went into effect Monday, Nov. 1, 2021.
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An internet website called “SafeWise” reports two Idaho towns are among the safest college towns in America this year.
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Idaho State University’s College of Technology has been asked to join almost 500 sites across the country to celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s next great space science observatory.
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Routine maintenance in the area of the Wilson Boat Ramp may impact recreational users beginning Monday.
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Responding to the needs of some of its blind students, the Idaho State University Office of Disability Services has embarked on an innovative pilot program to create braille reading materials in-house, saving the university hundreds of thousands of dollars and generating income, too.
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Idaho gas prices have fallen 3.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.62/g Monday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 802 stations in Idaho.
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The Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) is promoting changes to Chapter 39 for Driver Education Program Approval.
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Beginning Monday, no-cost, rapid PCR testing for COVID-19 will be available in Teton County, Wyo.
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Idaho State University’s School of Performing Arts will present “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” this weekend.
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Christmas tree permits for the Caribou-Targhee National Forest are now available to purchase online.
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A pill to treat COVID — Pfizer and Merck both generated excitement with news they have pills that could help keep people out of the hospital if they catch coronavirus.
Continue Reading It was a big day for Sesame Street’s 5-year-old Rosita, who recently got her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Continue Reading COVID-19 is here to stay.
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More than 250 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported globally, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Continue Reading Pfizer is expected to seek US Food and Drug Administration emergency use authorization for a coronavirus vaccine booster shot for people 18 and older, a Biden administration official said Monday.
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AARP Idaho will continue its series of statewide telephone town halls with Idaho Governor Brad Little and Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Dave Jeppesen at 10 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 8.
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Idaho’s newest temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has been dedicated.
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Thanks to the effort of the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service, among others federal agencies the famous Bear 399 along with her cubs are safe. Agents of the agencies yesterday were successfully able to radio collar two of 399’s cubs.
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The Associated Press TORRINGTON, Wyo. (AP) — An inmate who died Wednesday is the fourth death in as many weeks at the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution in Torrington. The Casper Star Tribune reports 66-year-old Frank Lee Apodaca died Wednesday at the Community Hospital in Torrington. The Wyoming Department of Corrections said it will conduct an
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Monday will be the start of Crash Responder Safety Week.
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The Bonneville County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office released its review of the Sept. 11, 2021 officer involved shooting incident.
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Idaho Falls Fiber announce Friday it is expanding its service provider network, adding even more low-cost internet choices for customers on Idaho’s largest, open-access fiber network.
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