Yellow Pine News

It was a storm that packed a punch....and we've got the pictures to prove it. Tuesday's thunderstorm that rolled across Southwest Idaho did some serious damage to a mountain road that leads to Yellow Pine.

Thanks to Tuesday's storm Mother Nature has dealt another blow to the town of Yellow Pine.

A mushroom picker who had been missing for four days in Valley County has been found safe.

A 3-alarm fire destroyed a manufacturing building at lumber manufacturing company near the Boise airport.

Authorities say at least one person was injured when a small plane crashed at a rural airstrip northeast of the mountain town of Yellow Pine.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING AREAS...BOISE MOUNTAINS AND WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. * THROUGH THIS EVENING.

The road to Yellow Pine is blocked today -- after a massive boulder blocked the main route from McCall to the tiny Idaho town. via KTVB.COM

“It didn't happen on our watch, but we discovered it almost immediately, and we jumped right on it and turned it over to the attorney general's office”

BOISE, Idaho - A former Valley County employee has been charged with two counts of felony grand theft and four counts of felony forgery, accused of stealing grant money that was intended to help reduce the risk ... via Times-News

“Yellow Pine has 37-39 people full time and this is it. If they don't make it then, they don't make it at all”

Summer fires destroyed more than Idaho acreage this year -- flames forced the cancellation of Yellow Pine's harmonica festival. via KTVB Boise

BOISE, Idaho - The Yellow Pine Harmonica Festival will be held after all. Canceled earlier this year because of forest fires, the event is now slated to be a part of the McCall Winter Festival on February 1st ... via Times-News

Issue date: 10/1/07 Section: Opinion So far in 2007, at least 1,972,643 acres of Idaho burned. via The Arbiter