Madison County’s mask order from Eastern Idaho Public Health will be lifted in just under two weeks, following improved and stable hospital capacity after near-critical levels during fall 2020.
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Two Star Wars clone troopers strolled down Second East on Friday much to the bemusement of passerby.
Rexburg hopes to soon improve broadband infrastructure for the city, giving residents more access to the internet at higher speeds.
Special Prosecutor Rob Wood has asked the Seventh Judicial Court to exclude two witnesses, who conducted telephone surveys about missing children’s defendant Chad Daybell, from testifying on Daybell’s behalf during his change of venue hearing.
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.
Quilts often tie one generation to another, says the Museum of Rexburg: Home of the Teton Flood Exhibit curator Alisha Tietjen.
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Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on March 3, 2021. Updated at 3:43 p.m. with comments from Boise State University President Marlene Tromp. Legislators came up with budget numbers for the state’s higher education system — and sliced $409,000 from Boise State University’s bottom line.
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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 — A Boise woman previously identified as having participated in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot has been taken into custody.
BOISE — SJR 101, the Senate-passed constitutional amendment to forbid Idaho from ever legalizing any psychoactive drug that’s illegal in the state as July of this year, was a “bridge too far” for the House, the measure’s sponsor, Sen. C. Scott Grow, told a House committee Wednesday, so he’s …
Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on March 3, 2021. Updated at 3:43 p.m. with comments from Boise State University President Marlene Tromp. Legislators came up with budget numbers for the state’s higher education system — and sliced $409,000 from Boise State University’s bottom line.
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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.
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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.
