Minidoka News

For the first time in the history of the state of Idaho's 120-year-old correctional system, an inmate has been convicted of raping another inmate inside a prison.

Currently Cassia counties dispatch services handles calls from that area; Minidoka County Emergency Services, however, responds to the area.

Among the various major national returns on Tuesday, one of the more notable and less-discussed is the close re-election win by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Miami University alumnus the Rev. David Weekly said he doesn't remember much about his sermon to his Oregon church Aug.

Fifth District Judge Robert Elgee heard an appeal from The Friends of Minidoka against Jerome County Tuesday.

At the Minidoka Memorial Hospital, some behind the scene changes could be taking place.

Idaho Senator Mike Crapo met this afternoon with officials from The US Bureau of Reclamation, Idaho Department of Water Resources, Bonneville Power Administration, as well as local farmers to talk about needed repairs to the spillway for Minidoka Dam.

At around 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Minidoka County Sheriff's Officials responded to a plane crash near the Bear Trap Cave Air Strip.

Rangers are offering guided tours through the month of August of the old Minidoka relocation center, also known as the Hunt Camp.

The National Park Service has awarded nearly $1million dollars to increase public awareness about sites which housed Japanese Americans during WWII.

Groundwater is being shut off to nearly 9,000 acres in southern Idaho. The Department of Water ordered the curtailment after trout farms argued increased pumping from the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer has taken away water they are legally owed.

Two Magic Valley counties have issued arrest warrants for the same man, but for different charges.

According to the Minidoka Sheriff's Office, a tire blew out on a local freeway around noon on Saturday, claiming the life of one man and sending another to the hospital by medical helicopter.

Several bus loads of people headed east to the hunt internment camp this morning.

Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused 10 railroad cars to derail and tumble down an embankment near Minidoka.

A Rupert man and two children are dead after a car accident in the Magic Valley Sunday morning.

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has approved a 5-year plan to kill and haze American white pelicans in eastern Idaho to protect Yellowstone cutthroat trout populations.