Payette News

Many SW Idaho hot springs enthusiasts are upset that the Forest Service is removing a series of cascading pools that a yet unnamed man built at Rocky Canyon Hot Springs near Crouch .

A 97-year-old Parma man reported missing nearly two weeks ago has been found dead in his 1988 Chevrolet pickup truck in Boise County.

Will you allow your child to get the Swine Flu vaccine? It's being called the biggest vaccination effort in state history.

A Payette County Sheriff's Office Lieutenant has been arrested for Driving Under the Influence.

Efforts to gather these horses from Idaho's sage-covered desert and foothills country near the Snake River start Wednesday.

Alberta company on the hunt for oil, gas in Idaho basin There is currently no natural gas nor oil production in Idaho, but Alberta-based Bridge Resources Corp.

NewWest.Net's flagship conference, Real Estate and Development in the Northern Rockies , features a major new element this year: pre-conference tours.

Nez Perce County is ready to sign an agreement that may lower garbage rates for county taxpayers.

Monsanto, the world's largest seed maker, plans to cut 600 jobs in the United States.

MCCALL, Idaho, Four people were injured when lightning struck a firefighting helicopter in central Idaho while it was on the ground.

A memorial honoring four firefighters killed during a 2006 helicopter crash in the Payette National Forest will be dedicated on Saturday.

Surprise Rapid turned out to be a surprise indeed, whacking writer Tony Brown and others out of their raft on the South Fork of the Payette River near Boise, Idaho.

More than a dozen lightning-sparked fires are burning in the Payette National Forest.

MCCALL, Idaho, Four people were injured when lightning struck a firefighting helicopter in central Idaho while it was on the ground.

It's that time of year again, fire season. Three fires hit the local region, while several more occurred in the Payette area.

A deadly weekend on Idaho's whitewaters. A 57 year old Washington woman drowned Saturday when she flipped out of a raft on a nasty stretch of the North Fork of the Payette river north of Banks.

It was like lightning striking twice in Boise county when police received two calls for help, just minutes apart, and just a few miles away.

Thanks to a wet spring, the infamous boulder garden at the end of the Staircase rapid on the South Fork of the Payette is still wonderfully submerged.

The Idaho Transportation Department's Division of Aeronautics will sponsor several two-day Teacher Aviation Workshops this month to demonstrate how aviation subjects can be incorporated into regular classroom lessons.

Given the choice to end my weekend with this view or start my week with it, I went with the latter.