Arbon News

Election day is just hours away, and with it, comes some big issues. The Bonneville County Elections Office was bustling Monday morning as precinct judges picked up supplies, and officials tested out the machine that counts punch card ballots.

Doctors fear that an outbreak of cholera could be spreading towards Haiti's capital as the death toll rose close to 200 and more than 2,000 people became ill.

They are awaiting test results to confirm the presence of the deadly disease and working to prevent it from spreading beyond the Arbonite and Central Plateau regions, north of the capital of Port Au Prince.

A power outage began at 10:31 a.m. Wednesday affecting more than 14,000 customers in Blackfoot and surrounding areas of Eastern Idaho including Moreland, Riverside, Arbon, Fort Hall, Pingree, Springfield, Sterling and portions of Pocatello, American Falls and Aberdeen.