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Scam alert – Idaho Attorney General issues new warning after uptick in Social Security imposter scam
BOISE – Attorney General Lawrence Wasden is renewing his call for Idahoans to be vigilant following an increase in the number of consumers being targeted by the so-called Social Security imposter scam.
GRANGEVILLE – Attendees came with interest – and questions – that created for a standing-room-only crowd of approximately 225 who packed into last week’s Capital for a Day event, hosted by Governor Brad Little and attended by more than a dozen state department heads and agency officials.
Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Aug. 4, 2019.
BOISE — As school buses hit the streets for another school year, drivers who zoom past the buses’ stop signs may get hit with a much higher fine than before.
Just before he left for a three-day horse pack trip into the heart of the rugged Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Kaden Laga made his wife a promise.
Kaden Laga of Orem, Utah, flashes a smile after being rescued following a five-day ordeal of being lost in the Selway-Bitterroot Willderness. Laga wandered into the camp of Brett and Robin Pederson of Florence. The Pedersons were part of a large search party that had been organized by Laga's…
Kaden Laga talks about the near miss he had with a rescue helicopter during his five-day ordeal of being lost in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness last week.
Kaden Laga said the rescue helicopter flew right over over him, but his clothing blended in with the surroundings. The search crew didn't spot the Utah man. He walked into a rescuers' camp early Friday morning.
With his wife, Debby, looking on, Kelly Laga rehangs the frame filled with family photos in the Florence family's home Sunday. The frame had been replaced with a map of the search area last week as the home became the headquarters for a five-day search for the couple's son, Kaden.
As best he could, Kaden Laga traced out his route over his five-day ordeal of being lost in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness last week.
Kaden Laga listens as his wife, Arden, talks about her experience of learning that her husband had been found after five days of being lost in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness last week. The couple were at Laga's parents' home in Florence Sunday.
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Have you ever found yourself saying, “Somebody should do something about that?” Charlie Sampson, who often went by C.B., had one of those moments back in 1914. Rather than just letting the thought drift out of his head as you and I would likely do, Sampson took on a little job himself. He began marking highways in Idaho so people wouldn’t get lost.
Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Aug. 16, 2019.
Idaho’s first two human cases of West Nile virus infection for 2019 have been confirmed in residents of Washington County.
BOISE — Idaho State Police troopers are encountering increasingly dangerous opioids — so much so troopers have been directed not to conduct certain types of roadside tests on substances they believe may be laced with fentanyl.
Idaho Business for Education announced that former Idaho governor C.L. “Butch” Otter has joined the council as an adviser.
BOISE — The Idaho Transportation Department is partnering with law enforcement agencies across the state in an effort to get drunk drivers off the roads. Beginning Friday, Aug. 16, through Sept. 4, officers will be conducting additional patrols to reduce drunk driving on Idaho roads.
Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Aug. 12, 2019
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BURGDORF -- Shortly after a column of smoke shot up in the Burgdorf area, Burgdorf-French Creek Road was pronounced closed by the Payette National Forest last Sunday afternoon, Aug. 4. The PNF declared the road open later in the evening, even as a “heavy presence of firefighting resources” w…
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BOISE, Idaho - Does this bill sound familiar?
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BOISE -- Kendall Automotive Group Inc., recently drafted Dallas Cowboys rookie all-star Leighton Vander Esch to join Kellen Moore as a spokesperson and endorser. Vander Esch, born and raised in Riggins, Idaho, and a graduate of Salmon River High School there, was a crowd-favorite Boise State…
Census Day 2020 falls on April 1 next year, and it comes with a push for people across Idaho to be counted, whether online, by phone or by mail.
After a wet spring, tall stands of grass and other vegetation from the valleys to the mountains are beginning to dry. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is reminding users of federal forest and rangelands, state endowment lands and department-managed lands and access sites, that fireworks…
The Lolo Motorway (Forest Service Road #500) and the Magruder Road (Forest Service Road #468, aka the Montana Road) are two popular high–elevation routes for summer travel on the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests. At this time, both are still snow–covered in places and are not passable f…
Idaho’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained steady at 2.8 percent in May, the 18th consecutive month at or below 3 percent.
GRANGEILLE -- Pat Sullivan, a teacher at Grangeville High School, has been named the 2019 Idaho History Teacher of the Year, an award presented annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to K-12 American history education.
BOISE, Idaho - A diverse group of stakeholders will be in Boise on Friday to develop a plan to save Idaho's salmon and steelhead trout.
Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on June 24, 2019
While southern Idaho observed normal precipitation last month, the panhandle – including regionally the Clearwater Basin – was below average, according to the June Water Supply Outlook Report from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
While urban centers are moving at top speed along the digital highway, rural Idaho remains largely stalled on the shoulder. Plans to change that will be formed by a task force in the coming months – with proposed action for the 2020 legislative session -- as per a directive by Gov. Brad Little.
Idaho Fish and Game is moving to replace the agency headquarters building in Boise, which, according to a June 17 news release put out by the agency, has not met IDFG’s office space needs for more than 20 years.
President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Disaster Declaration for five Idaho counties and the Nez Perce Tribe for areas affected by severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides from April 7-13.
Fish and Game Commissioners on Thursday, June 13, opened chinook salmon fishing effective immediately on the Middle Fork of the Clearwater River to allow anglers the opportunity to harvest hatchery fish bound for the Selway River that are normally caught in the Lower Clearwater River, which …
COEUR D’ALENE – The Idaho Community Foundation’s Northern Region Grant Panel has selected 75 north Idaho nonprofit organizations to receive more than $255,000 through its annual competitive grant cycle.
Idaho’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped slightly to 2.8 percent in April, the 17th consecutive month at or below 3 percent.
FT. IRWIN, Calif. -- Local soldiers from the Idaho Army National Guard’s 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team are currently mobilized in a four-week deployment to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., to participate in a large-scale exercise. This deployment is the state’s largest…
A Latah County resident has a confirmed case of the measles, according to Public Health - Idaho North Central District, which is collaborating with Gritman Medical Center and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to respond. It is the first confirmed case of the measles in Idaho since 2001.
RIGGINS -- A body was reportedly recovered on the Salmon River on Sunday, May 26, from a drowning incident on April 26, according to an Idaho County Sheriff’s Office log report.
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