A Sugar City girl took home two gold medals and a silver medal in the Special Olympics Winter Games. The event marked the return of Special Olympics competition after a pandemic-induced hiatus.
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The Rexburg Police Department is requesting help to locate a missing juvenile runaway.
The St. Anthony Senior Citizens Center will soon open its doors to provide meals for seniors once again.
The Sugar City Council is urging residents to take and return its “City Public Survey 2021” by Thursday.
The first 1,825 days — or first five years — of a child’s life are the most important in a child’s development.
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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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BOISE — An Idaho House panel took up legislation Tuesday to prohibit mask mandates by government entities that have been put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
BOISE — The Idaho Senate on Monday voted 26-9 in favor of SB 1110, the bill to sharply increase the hurdles to get a voter initiative on the Idaho ballot, by requiring 6% of signatures from registered voters in all 35 of Idaho’s 35 legislative districts, rather than in 18 as under current law.
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If the regional health board sticks to its plan, masks should again be mandatory throughout eastern Idaho’s most populous county.
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When Nick Nulph and Wes Pahl parked at the Birch Creek parking lot near Preston on the morning of Feb. 15, they expected to rev their snow machines up, hit the snowy mountains for several hours, and return back home to American Falls before the sun dipped down for the day.
NAMPA — Skyrocketing home values and stagnant tax policies are factors in the property tax burden shifting more and more onto homeowners, government analysts say. And the shift is taking a toll.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The boyfriend of a Wyoming woman whose 2-year-old son was found dead in an apartment complex dumpster has been arrested, police said Tuesday.
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CHEYENNE, Wyoming — Following a missing child search that began early Friday afternoon, Cheyenne Police discovered the body of 2-year-old Athian Rivera in a dumpster in the 400 block of Desmet Drive.
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Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who ripped into liberals and laid waste to political correctness with a merry brand of malice that made him one of the most powerful voices on the American right, influencing the rightward push of conservatism and the rise of Donald Trump, died Wednesday. H…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Saturday acquitted Donald Trump of inciting the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol, concluding a historic impeachment trial that exposed the fragility of America's democratic traditions and left a divided nation to come to terms with the violence sparked by h…
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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.
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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.
