Sun Valley News

The Sun Valley City Council took up the issue of water use and waste on Thursday, considering an amendment to the city’s comprehensive plan that would restrict irrigation on new residential developments to 50 percent of the lot or half an acre, whichever is smaller.

Ketchum’s about to grow up. There are good things and bad about that, but there’s little doubt that when the community’s Planning and Zoning Commission and its City Council give final approval to the Sun Valley Company’s 138-acre River Run development and 110-foot hotel at the base of Bald Mountain — which they almost certainly will do in the next few weeks — Ketchum will have crossed a watershed.

Although the numbers fluctuated up and down, LOT revenues for the city of Ketchum were down every month of the 2008-09 fiscal year, compared to the previous year.

A contestant who was hospitalized after competing briefly on the game show "Wipeout" died two weeks later of a stroke apparently caused by a rare condition, his father said.

The David Ketchum American Legion Post No. 115 and three Wood River Valley businesses - Smith Sport Optics, Ketchum Kitchens and MBT - were honored during the ninth annual Governor's Brightest Stars awards ceremony at Boise State University on Tuesday.

Developer DeNovo Independence's plans to develop its property in the hills above Elkhorn were denied by the city of Sun Valley.

Sun Valley's Dave Meyers has become a life master in bridge, a rank described by the American Contract Bridge League as "the most highly sought level of bridge achievement." Meyers, who moved here in 1995 has been playing bridge since 2000.

HAILEY, Idaho -- A survey of the Hailey Cemetery using ground-penetrating radar has found hundreds of unmarked graves.

No other community in south-central Idaho has been hit harder by the recession than Shoshone, where the unemployment rate surpassed 14 percent in October. Blame it on Blaine County, say local and state officials.

Incumbent Nils Ribi was re-elected to the Sun Valley City Council on Tuesday, winning the most votes of any candidate.

Bobby Corker waters the 16 chickens The Community School students are raising over a 45-day period at the Sun Valley school.

The Ketchum Planning and Zoning Commission is recommending that 138 acres be annexed into the city as part of a plan by Sun Valley Co.

In the middle of a scenic riverside meadow on the frontier of Boise's stalled eastern sprawl is an elk that likes to run with the bulls.

Three Sun Valley residents will be disappointed next week, when two City Council seats are filled from a pool of five candidates. Fortunately for those who aren't elected, all the candidates agree they live in a city that is generally on the right track. "We want to make sure we continue to make this a great place to live, and part of that is having a good, solid, fiscally sound city," said incumbent Nils Ribi, 54, who previously served on the planning and zoning commission and has lived in Sun Valley for 21 years. "It boils down to livability."

The candidates have spoken, campaigns are in full swing and today the newspaper weighs in with endorsements.

A strong cold front brought big weather changes last night; some local areas had not just wind, but snow, as well.

Four of the valley's city council candidates - one in Sun Valley and three in Bellevue - have refused to answer a questionnaire posed by the Sawtooth Board of Realtors.

The new 138,000-volt power line planned between Hailey and Ketchum could look something like this stretch between Woodside and Hailey, if it's built parallel to the existing line along Highway 75.

One more step was taken last week in the march toward relocating Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey.

Bill and Kimberly Yant were new to the art business when they bought Zantman Gallery in Carmel, but they knew they had acquired a business with a good track record.