Salmon News

A Canadian mining company has gotten initial federal approval of its plan to mine cobalt for hybrid car batteries and jet engines from the mountains of central Idaho, putting it on track to begin operations in 2011.

Enter to win a pair of screening passes to see The Slammin' Salmon! Opening Night! MEET THE STARS OF OPENING WEEKEND! Special appearances by BROKEN LIZARD at the AMC VILLAGE 7 66 3rd Avenue FRIDAY, DEC 11TH 8:00PM SCREENING SPECIAL INTRODUCTION AND party with broken lizard at the AFTER PARTY AT 64 Third Ave.

Seven years seems like the mere blink of an eye or a small eternity. Founding member of Leftover Salmon and banjoist for the ages, Mark Vann, passed into history in March 2002 at age 39, after a couple of decades of practically redefining the banjo along with a half-year counterpunching the indifferent cruelties of melanoma.

Healthy horses handle frigid temperatures better than we do, but their extremities still are vulnerable to frostbite.

Not exactly sure if it's Josiah's musical way of looking at himself in front of a mirror, as it were, and sometimes almost angrily and defiantly telling himself "it's about time" he quit screwing around with his life and started taking himself SERIOUSLY for a change, or what ... but whatever sort of artistically challenging and felicitous ...

The final costs to refurbish the Navy Yard parkette have been revealed and the town states it paid $306,141.18 of the $379,221.80 final bill.

Photograph by Lynn M. Josse taken in 2000. The 50th anniversary gala for Landmarks Association of St.

A recently completed project has increased flow in a major tributary to the Pahsimeroi River that led to a huge increase in Chinook salmon spawning and also improved irrigation efficiency.

AMHERSTBURG a ' Town council has agreed to release all costs associated with the parkette in the King's Navy Yard Park after a former councillor appeared before them seeking they be made public.

"How do we fix domestic violence?" asked Jennifer Landhuis of the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.

Steelhead harvest fishing season opens Thursday, October 15, on the Clearwater River upstream of the Memorial Bridge on U.S. Highway 12 near Lewiston.

Custer County so far has dodged the bullet of dry lightning and avoided a big fire season for 2009, but it appears artificial lightning in the form of a power line failure may have sparked the 35-acre Sunbeam Fire Saturday evening.

Lanny Sloan, who served as Delta's city manager since December 2006, has announced his retirement.

JOURNEY RESOURCES CORP. announces drilling is to commence at the 100% owned Musgrove Creek Gold Project, near Salmon, Idaho.

I recently took a hike up Perreau Creek Road near Salmon, Idaho. Its upper reaches narrow to a dusty two-track, which is frequented not only by hikers but by the ATV crowd roaring up and down on those four-wheelers. Perreau Creek Road is also lined with garbage.

Twenty Idaho Falls firefighters brushed up on their skills to rescue you just in case of a major disaster this week.

Idaho State Police say the body of a missing motorcyclist was found by three elk hunters near Salmon - almost three weeks after the man apparently crashed.

Former Denver lawyer Donald Masters, missing since Aug. 31, was found dead from a motorcycle crash off an eastern Idaho highway Sunday morning.

Police say a fifth person has died on Idaho highways this week in a motorcycle-related accident after two bikes crashed Wednesday afternoon not far from the Idaho-Montana border.

Salmon, Idaho- Cindy Thomas spends a quarter of an hour a day tending four hens in her backyard that provide her with eggs she and her husband eat or sell through a ranch supply store in east central Idaho.