Hospitals in the south and southeastern regions of Idaho have banded together to release a joint statement calling for their communities to take responsibility to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.
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The Rexburg Kiwanis Club and Rexburg Rotary Club are calling upon child artists to help distribute thank-you cards to about 150 businesses on Thursday.
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Brigham Young University-Idaho officials are warning students that anyone intentionally exposing themselves or others to COVID-19 will be suspended and may be permanently dismissed.
The Idaho State Department of Education recently awarded Fremont County School District #215 a $57,000 Mastery Learning Grant.
The Madison and Fremont school districts are providing breakfasts and lunches to students and have been doing so since the first of the school year.
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The Rexburg Police Department is requesting assistance in locating a missing teenager.
Education
Utah State University has expanded COVID-19 testing for employees and students on the Logan Campus by way of a new testing site just east of Maverik Stadium.
Upper Valley school districts plan to start school this fall with various modifications resulting from COVID-19.
Agriculture and Business
ISLAND PARK — The Sawtelle Mountain Resort is undergoing a facelift.
ST. ANTHONY — Thanks to the purchase of two St. Anthony Industrial Park parcels the city will pay off a $250,000 Development Company loan used to develop the park. The organization is also known as the East Idaho Planning and Development Association.
REXBURG — Restoration work on a local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant proved to be more than a headache for the company in charge of the repair work.
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Fleetwood Mac co-founder Mick Fleetwood joined TikTok to pay tribute to Nathan Apodaca's viral video
For Duffy McFarland, 35-yearlong director of golf at the Teton Lakes golf course, golf means much more than a game to play.
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The eastern Idaho community has rallied around the Moser family ever since news of 5-year-old Jack Moser’s accident last week first started being shared on social media.
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BLACKFOOT – There was a high school girls soccer game on Saturday – a big one, too. Sugar-Salem knocked off American Falls 4-1 in a state play-in game to earn a bid to the 3A state tournament. With about 15 minutes remaining, as the majority of the crowd sprinted on the pitch, most of them f…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Boise man was charged with assault after police say he drunkenly pulled a handgun on teens at a haunted house in Idaho last weekend because they said they didn't like President Donald Trump, authorities said.
LOGAN, Utah - The city of Logan received an application for In-N-Out Burger this week, and the Planning Commission will meet to discuss the application as a workshop item at its next meeting on Oct. 22.
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BOISE — When Boise Police Officer Jason Green shot at Arthur Zalman Ferrel, 58, in a Meridian campground on Aug. 31, it was the fifth on-duty shooting he’d been involved in during his 12-year tenure.
Americans are reaching the final few hours to respond to the 2020 Census. Some officials tracking the responses in Idaho are worried about the impact of the new deadline.
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POCATELLO — U.S. Sen. Jim Risch predicts polling data for the Nov. 3 election will prove to be off target, the Democrats will “pack” the Supreme Court if they seize the White House and Senate and a COVID-19 vaccine will be ready by Jan. 1.
As Senate Judiciary Committee members gave their opening statements in Monday’s confirmation hearing on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, Idaho’s member, GOP Sen. Mike Crapo, decried “the standard arguments” from Democrats against the nomination, and descri…
LONDON (AP) — Shares in the company that owns the Regal, Cineworld and Picturehouse movie theaters fell as much as 58% after it said it will temporarily close the venues because delays to the latest James Bond film left it with few blockbusters to attract customers during the pandemic.
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Enviro groups worry too much logging
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Joginder Chaudhary was his parents’ greatest pride, raised with the little they earned farming a half-acre plot in central India to become the first doctor from their village.
When leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lift the temporary suspension of weekly worship services, Church members around the world will again enjoy the centrality of the meetinghouse to their Sabbath experience.
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BOISE — Nearly 14,000 Idahoans have tested negative for COVID-19, but it is unclear how many of those were faulty results.
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A video meeting hosted by Utah’s Alpine School District was hacked, revealing pornographic images to dozens of elementary school students last week.
