GRANGEVILLE – Investigation is ongoing regarding a suspicious fire incident last week at Sts. Peter and Paul School.

KAMIAH – “Yes, if the levy passes, we plan to open the middle school building,” Kamiah School District 304 Superintendent Steve Higgins said last Thursday. “Many people in the community have made it clear this is what they want; this is important to them.”

BOISE -- “We’re ready to go. I feel good where we’re at with it,” said Senator Carl Crabtree, on his proposed bill that would allow for shared ambulance districts across county boundaries.

BOISE—The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is partnering with Idaho native and Dallas Cowboys’ linebacker Leighton Vander Esch to remind Idahoans to buckle up. 

GRANGEVILLE – Current methods of management and control will be discussed during the day-long Idaho County Invasive Plants Workshop, set for Thursday, March 19, at the Grangeville Senior Center.

Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr., has been on death row in Idaho since his 1986 murder conviction in connection with the beating deaths of a couple in Idaho County. With his most recent appeal denied by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Pizzuto’s next step – to avoid death by lethal injection –…

GRANGEVILLE – Backflow was the topic of the Feb. 13 Grangeville Chamber of Commerce meeting.

BOISE – The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Idaho has a March 13 application deadline for Fiscal Year 2020 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) projects. This includes currently funded Regional Conservation Partnership Program projects.

WEIPPE – Three-year old twin boys, John Carr and Shawn Carr, passed away early Friday morning, Feb. 21, in Weippe of Clearwater County caused by an electrical fault in a light fixture.

BOISE -- A bill that would remove sales tax on custom meat processing in certain cases is headed to the House floor after the Revenue and Taxation Committee voted unanimously to approve it last Monday, Feb. 17.

BOISE -- A proposal to create a plan for regulating industrial hemp in Idaho will move to the full Senate floor for a vote after farmers turned out in support at a legislative committee meeting Feb. 20. 

BOISE -- For two days the House State Affairs Committee mulled over a battle between the biological sex and gender identity of Idaho’s scholastic athletes. The hearing saw testimony from both sides of the issue where tears fell, voices were raised, and passions rang high.

GRANGEVILLE – Classes are canceled for the day at Sts. Peter and Paul School as investigation is under way into a suspicious fire found early this morning in one of the classrooms.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Idaho has a March  13 application deadline for Fiscal Year 2020 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) projects. This includes currently funded Regional Conservation Partnership Program projects.

BOISE – Today (Wednesday, Feb. 19), a bill to prevent the use of vaping products by minors was sent to General Orders for language changes by the House Health and Welfare Committee. This legislation would create parity between current, traditional tobacco products and the new electronic smok…

BOISE -- State lawmakers have introduced a bill to remove partisan requirements for members of the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. Under existing law, no more than four members of the seven-person commission may belong to the same political party.

GRANGEVILLE – “We appreciate you taking your time to meet tonight, to share ideas, to help us build a better newspaper and, ultimately, a better community,” said Lewiston Tribune editor-publisher Nathan Alford.

Elections are two weeks away, and voters are advised to plan ahead by the Idaho County Elections Office to avoid issues and make your ballot count.

BOISE -- A bill paving the way for shared ambulance districts across county boundaries will make its way to the Senate floor after the Local Government and Taxation committee voted to approve it last Thursday, Feb. 13.

On a rural highway in July of 2019, Kyle Vopat was headed to a secluded cabin about 40 miles from Grangeville, Idaho, taking time off from his job as a lineworker for BPA’s (Bonneville Power Administration) Pasco Line Maintenance Crew in Washington. A few miles from his destination, he passe…

Check out Lewis-Clark State College’s Grangeville Outreach courses that are coming up in March.