Sun Valley News

There is magic and sublime mystery in Barbara Klines ethereal, dream-like imagery.

Airport officials in central Idaho say the contentious debate on whether or not to move Friedman Memorial Airport to a new location farther south is over and it's time to transition to a new governing body for the replacement airport.

Mountain Rides will now offer trips on The Party Bus, keeping our roads and valley safe but fun on the weekends with trips from Ketchum to Hailey to Bellevue on Friday and Saturday nights.

Jessica Schlueter enjoys a hot cup at Java's new digs in Hailey. The area coffee company expanded back into the Hailey market this year after several years' absence.

Journalists and cycling-industry representatives descended upon the quiet resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho, last week for Press Camp, a three-day event that included rapid-fire, one-on-one meetings each morning, followed by afternoon test rides and demos.

The man known as the 'Match.Com' Rapist was sentenced Tuesday in an Ada County Courtroom, for crimes he committed against a Sun Valley woman back in October, 2005.

The state of Idaho says the latest appeal by Sarah Johnson, a Bellevue woman convicted of killing her parents in 2003 when she was 16, lacks merit to proceed in district court. Writing for the state, Deputy Attorney General Jessica Lorello denied many of the assertions in Johnson's appeal made this spring, including that Johnson's counsel was ineffective in several ways.

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison in Idaho for sexually assaulting a woman at his Sun Valley condominium in 2005.

The actor Bruce Willis, who owns a small ski area about 50 miles from Ketchum and Sun Valley, has begun work that could yield an airport capable of handling jet aircraft.

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Private vs. public, Camas vs. Blaine, convenience vs. viability. These are all issues emerging in the wake of the Federal Aviation Administration's request for public comment this week on an airport proposed near Soldier Mountain by a company associated with actor Bruce Willis.

An elated Blaine County Sheriff Walt Femling, left, watches Thursday morning as County Commissioner Tom Bowman prepares to sign a contract that will hand over the responsibility for law enforcement in the city of Ketchum to the county Sheriff's Office.

Still maintaining secrecy about its founders, the ad-hoc Friedman Airport Users Alliance has renewed its attack on proposals to relocate Friedman Memorial Airport and ultimately close the Hailey airfield.

There's a lot of discussion now about possible relocation of the existing airfield in Hailey for commercial jets and general aviation.

Nine of Ketchum's full-time firefighters joined the International Association of Firefighters on Monday. In a news release on Wednesday, Ketchum City Administrator Gary Marks said the move to unionize was "based on concerns about job security and the current freeze on all city salaries."

Horizon Air will once again provide direct flights from Los Angeles to Sun Valley on a seasonal basis.

Idahoans may not think of their state as having a large Polish population. But an honorary Polish consolate is being created in Ketchum. Susan Passovoy, a Ketchum resident, who is not Polish, will act as honorary consulate for one of only 13 Polish consulates in the U.S.

Ketchum and Sun Valley officials say their cities haven't been involved enough in the planning for a new regional airport for Blaine County.

Costs of rebuilding Friedman Memorial Airport to conform to current design standards for ground operations required by the Federal Aviation Administration would cost as much or perhaps more than building a replacement airport, according to the two officials leading studies to find a site for a new airport.

The chefs came, their arms laden with morels and watercress they'd picked along the creeks around Sun Valley. And nearly every one of those who were part of the third annual Sun Valley Food and Wine Festival talked about making new choices for a new age, such as eating locally to support the community's farmers and choosing organic crops and grass-fed beef when possible for the sake of one's own health.