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A new report by Oregon Office of Economic Analysis finds marijuana sales are strongest along Oregon’s border with Idaho – a state where recreational marijuana is not legal. It is unsusprising to find that in neighboring states Oregon and Washington (where recreational use of the substance is legal), sales along the Idaho border are much […]
McCALL, Idaho — McCall, Idaho, is preparing to celebrate 55 years of the McCall Winter Carnival. Every year, the small town of 3,000 welcomes a surge of more than 60,000 people during the 10-day winter jubilee. This year’s observance runs Friday Jan. 24 through Sunday Feb. 2 and celebrates the theme “It’s A Kids World.” “It’s […]
BOISE, Idaho (Jan. 13, 2020) — The number of unfilled STEM jobs in the state continues to grow, according to the Idaho STEM Action Center’s budget request presentation before the state Legislature’s Joint Finance Appropriations Committee today. However, agency officials said the number of computer science teachers and students grew dramatically over the last year. “The number […]
An avalanche on Tuesday at the Silver Mountain Resort in Kellog, Idaho, claimed the lives of two people and left another five injured. This occurred at 11 am local time, less than an hour after the peek opened. The resort had completed avalanche blasting – a process where intentional avalanches are triggered – mere hours […]
Idaho Gov. Brad Little announced Monday that more than 4000 Idaho Army National Guard soldiers will be deployed to Germany in the next few months as “part of a training exercise”. The exercise will be conducted along with NATO partners and is meant to demonstrate US military readiness. Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Borders said […]
BOISE, Idaho — Thanks to a local church nearly 1000 people in Idaho are starting a New year with their medical debt wiped away. Southminster Presbyterian Church Pastor Marci Glass said.-“It’s a sin quite frankly, that we have people going into bankruptcy over medical debt.You should be able to go to the doctor and be […]
On Wednesday a freight train with three locomotives and six cars derailed in a remote area, 10 miles east of Bonners Ferry on the main line. The train crashed into the Kootenai river in northern Idaho and the lead locomotive began leaking diesel into the river. Nobody was injured and two workers were rescued from […]
Buffalo Cave near Dubois Idaho, has offered up some rather gruesome artefacts over the last 40 years. First, in 1979 a family looking for arrow heads were rewarded instead with a headless torso wrapped in hessian. In 1991 a girl found a mummified hand and other body parts were found in the area later. The […]
Police in Idaho are struggling to make progress in a case of two missing children. They have received hundreds of tips regarding Joshua Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17 who have been missing since September. But the parents of the two missing children are not co-operating with the investigation and police in Rexburg say that […]
U.S. District Judge David C. Nye handed down a 51 month sentence to 76-year-old Frank Abbott Sweeney, 76, of Garden City. Sweeney pled guilty to stalking six victims by harassing them through the mail. He will spend those 51 months in federal prison for using the US Mail Service to commit his crimes and he […]