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According to data gathered by OHS, 39% of all fatal crashes in Idaho are impaired driver related.  

Governor Brad Little announced changes to key senior level staff positions in his office Friday.

Idaho’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate experienced a slight increase in July, rising from June’s rate of 2.7% to 2.8%.

o protect nationally significant Tribal and cultural resources dating back thousands of years, the Bureau of Land Management issued a decision Thursday to close the American Falls Archaeological District and a portion of the Lake Channel area to rock climbing and off-highway vehicle use in Power County, Idaho. 

Since much of Idaho now faces Extreme or Very High fire danger, Idaho Department of Lands fire managers ask anyone who burned large piles of materials this spring or last fall to confirm their piles are out cold.

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has approved an application from Idaho Power that will allow the utility to expand optional clean energy offerings to customers.

Prescribed fire activity is highly weather dependent.

Police have issued an endangered missing person alert for an 85-year-old man.

Many Idahoans have heard of fire restrictions during the summertime, but how decisions to implement restrictions are made, and who makes those calls, has always been a little mysterious.

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

The Idaho Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has added new features to the online customer portal.

been mapped at 24,447 acres acres and is burning in steep and difficult terrain with spruce/subalpine fir containing a heavy dead/down timber component.

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.