People in Idaho affected by wildfires who need emotional support are being offered a free help line from Optum, the company that manages the Idaho Behavioral Health Plan; the toll-free emotional support help line is open to anyone. At (866) 342-6892, the line will be…
The Tepee Springs Fire jumped the Salmon River on Saturday morning in a several-mile-wide run driven by high, gusting winds in the Allison Creek area; the wildfire’s advance was so ferocious that firefighters had to leave the area until the wind died down. “It was...
A unanimous Idaho Supreme Court has cleared the way for a lawsuit to proceed against the Boy Scouts of America and the LDS Church by a group of men who are suing for fraud, saying they were sexually abused by scout leaders as children, and...
Idaho’s public school endowment made $15.65 million on Friday when the state auctioned off 35 lakefront cabin sites on Priest Lake – with every one of them purchased at the appraised price by the cabin owners. There was no competitive bidding on any of the...
After promising that new corporate sponsorship programs for Idaho’s state parks wouldn’t lead to renaming state parks for Coca-Cola or Doritos, state parks board members were faced with new administrative rules last week that actually didn’t rule that out. The proposed rules put lots of…
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