Emmett News

Thanks to the success of the program that was offered in August, the Bureau of Land Management is once again partnering with several Idaho 4-H groups to gentle wild horses gathered from the Four Mile Herd Management Area north of Emmett and the Sands Basin HMA southwest of Marsing.

Searchers are looking for a hunter that has been missing since yesterday. David Smith, 40, of Emmett, was reported missing yesterday when he didn't meet up with his ride.

Pilots using the Emmett Municipal Airport are finding take offs and landings much smoother thanks to a reconstructed runway.

TV Today's 6: Idaho's News Ranger Districts Plan Prescribed Burns The Emmett and Lowman Ranger Districts will begin the annual fall prescribed burn program in October, depending on the local weather and fuel moisture conditions.

The morning of Shawn Heckathorn's deadly accident, parents Robert and Connie Heckathorn say they knew something was wrong.

I n the early morning hours of March 28, 1979, the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania began to melt.

A wildfire burning east of Emmett has now grown to almost 1,000 acres. The Sand Hollow Fire started Wednesday evening about 1.5 miles east of the town in the area of Frozen Dog Road and Sand Hollow Road.

An Idaho teenager who survived brain cancer is now in the midst of another battle -- one to find out what caused his cancer.

TV Today's 6: Idaho's News Grassfire Burning In The Gem County Foothills A brush fire has crews from three different agencies on the move in Gem County.

No significant fire activity occurred on the Sand Hollow fire overnight. Fire crews will continue to put out any remaining hot spots and began the mop up process this morning.

Fire crews in Gem County will fight a stubborn wildfire from the air and the ground today.

The 3 p.m. dedication will honor Lillian M. Patten, 34, of Olympia, Wash., Michael Gene Lewis, 37, of Cascade, Idaho; Monica Lee Zajanc, 27, of Boise, Idaho; and pilot Quin R. Stone, 42, of Emmett, Idaho.

An Emmett woman dies in a car crash this weekend. 52-year-old Katherine Stevens was killed when she rolled her vehicle Saturday on State Highway 52 near the Sweet-Ola Highway.

Mark Nichols, of Sandpoint, naps Friday at Art on the Green. He builds ottomans and wooden chests, using the scraps to craft flamingos.

All around, coveys of quail scurry across open fields while hawks circle overhead looking for whistle pigs to eat.

Alvin Sykes, an area civil rights advocate, will tell Thursday how using the library spurred his crusade for justice involving the murder of Emmett Till.

Dive teams in Gem County are looking into a report of a drowning in Emmett. Around 2:00 p.m. today, two young children, ages 8 and 10, flagged down a police officer and told the officer they saw a teen swimming in the pond.

EMMETT a ' Authorities have found the body of a Canyon County teen who drowned in a rural canal over the weekend.

Recovery crews are resuming their search Monday morning for a 17-year-old boy, believed to have drowned in an Emmett canal.

Gem County Sheriff Chuck Rolland says a 17-year-old is presumed drowned after disappearing in a canal near Emmett.