An American icon rolled into Rexburg’s Walmart in the form of the much-loved Oscar Mayer Wienermobile on Thursday.
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REXBURG, Idaho—Official Spring 2021 Semester enrollment totals at Brigham Young University-Idaho show growth among both campus and online students who are continuing to pursue their academic goals despite a world-wide pandemic.
Reese Hughes, a Senior at South Fremont High School and daughter of Stacie Hughes, who works in the Fremont County Assessors office, was awarded one of seven Idaho Association of Counties (lAC) Scholarships. Hughes will receive $1,000.00 to help pay for her college education.
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Northwest Public Power Association and its Engineering & Operations Conference Planning Committee have selected one team and two individuals for the association’s 2021 Safety Heroism Award.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Rexburg Temple will reopen in phase 2-B on May 25. Phase 2-B will accommodate small groups doing baptisms by proxy.
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When Sugar-Salem-Moody Cemetery District cemetery officials started their April fundraising campaign to buy a new irrigation system, they wondered if anyone would donate.
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BOISE — More than 100 Idaho child care providers and parents, many with babies, toddlers or young children in tow, filled three levels of the Capitol rotunda Monday, plus assembling with strollers on the Capitol steps, to call for legislators to approve $99 million in federal aid to the stat…
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The coronavirus is one of the likely factors fueling a boom in large ranch sales in the U.S. West, real estate industry professionals said.
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.
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More than 330 coronavirus cases in Idaho have been caused by concerning variants, according to data released this week.
Authorities say they are trying to determine what prompted a young girl to open fire at an East Idaho middle school, one of the few school shootings in which the suspect is female.
About 1.1 million vaccine doses have administered in Idaho. Over half a million Idahoans have received both shots.
An Idaho Falls man was arrested Tuesday after he reportedly shared multiple images of child pornography on Facebook.
BOISE — More than 100 Idaho child care providers and parents, many with babies, toddlers or young children in tow, filled three levels of the Capitol rotunda Monday, plus assembling with strollers on the Capitol steps, to call for legislators to approve $99 million in federal aid to the stat…
BOISE — Idaho lawmakers hesitant to leave the governor in charge of pandemic decisions after the legislative session are delaying their adjournment, a move that analysists say could cause a government shutdown by threatening the start date of some 200 pieces of legislation.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major step toward returning to pre-pandemic life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people on Thursday, allowing them to stop wearing masks outdoors in crowds and in most indoor settings.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans dumped GOP Rep. Liz Cheney from her House leadership post Wednesday for her persistent repudiation of Donald Trump’s election falsehoods, underscoring the hold the defeated and twice-impeached former president retains on his party.
WASHINGTON — Republicans dumped GOP Rep. Liz Cheney from her House leadership post Wednesday for her persistent repudiation of Donald Trump’s election falsehoods, underscoring the hold the defeated and twice-impeached former president retains on his party.
Authorities say they are trying to determine what prompted a young girl to open fire at an East Idaho middle school, one of the few school shootings in which the suspect is female.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The world got its first close-up look at a Mars landing on Friday, as NASA released a stunning picture of its newest rover being lowered onto the dusty red surface.
If I’ve already had the coronavirus, can I get it again?
Jewish Americans from a variety of branches of the faith are celebrating Hanukkah with smaller-than-usual gatherings this year, in hopes of keeping the year-end holiday safe but still joyful as coronavirus cases spike across the country.
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.
