Burley News

A local intermediate school is raising money for the American Heart Association.

Steve "the Nuclear Guy" Natarelli opened his "Witness Protection Program Comedy Breakout Tour" at BJ's 19th Hole Sports Bar last Saturday to a packed house ready to drink and laugh.

BURLEY, ID Cassia Regional Technical Center is just one of the places high school students can earn college credits.

If you're heading to Idaho this spring, be aware that Burley BLM Field Office in the Twin Falls area has a seasonal closure on some roads.

Idaho city officials lobby Minidoka County commission to support airport plan Minidoka County commissioners told Burley officials that they wanted to talk with Cassia County officials before they signed a letter of support for Burley's plan to replace the J.R. Simplot Airport in south-central Idaho.

Like most boys his age in Grouse Creek, 12-year-old Heston Warr starts the day off doing chores on the family ranch.

BURLEY, Idaho -- Burley Mayor Terry Greenman is scheduled to meet Monday with Minidoka County commissioners to discuss whether the county would be interested in signing on to a regional airport venture.

A Burley man arrested after the shooting death of a passenger in his pickup truck is scheduled to be arraigned later this month on an involuntary manslaughter charge.

SOUTHERN IDAHO If you were wondering what roads and bridges were on the yearly State of Idaho maintenance list for 2012, here it is.

BURLEY, ID The Cassia County Commissioners looked into redistricting in their county, and what the new maps would look like.

A federal judge in Seattle has sentenced "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore to 6 1/2 years in prison for his infamous 2-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts that ended in 2010.

BURLEY, ID The American Cancer society's "Relay for Life" has become an annual tradition in Magic Valley.

BURLEY, ID Reading stories to small children can catch their attention and help their imaginations grow.

They say that stupidity knows no bounds, and the story of 61-year old Houston resident Lynn S. Keesler seems to uphold that theory.

BURLEY, IDAHO Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Officials in Cassia County say 61 year old Lynn Keesler of Houston was stuck in a dairy wastewater pond for nearly a week.

Cassia County Commissioners are beginning to take a closer look at its judicial building.

A Texas woman may have spent up to a week in a rental car stuck in an Idaho dairy wastewater pond after taking a wrong turn while looking for a hotel in Burley, authorities said.Lynn S. Keesler, 61, of Houston, was evaluated by emergency medical technicians but refused to go to the hospital, saying she just wanted "a warm bed and a bath," The ... (more)

Here's your head-shaker of the day: A Texas woman spent days in her car stuck in a wastewater pond on a Burley dairy after she apparently mistook the pond for the Snake River.

The Cassia County Sheriff's Office has captured two people for supposedly stealing copper wires.

BURLEY, ID Work has finally begun on a walking path along the south side of the Snake River in Burley.