Bannock County News

In September, Local News 8 introduced you to the newest member of the Chubbuck police force.

It has not been a good night for incumbents in Pocatello. Mayor Roger Chase will not serve a third term, losing to Brian Blad 3,792 votes to 3,417. Robert Richway who has spent more than a decade in public service lost his seat on the City Council to former Bannock County Commissioner Craig Cooper.

Bannock County expects to see low voter turnout for Tuesday's election. Fewer absentee and early votes were cast in Bannock County compared to past elections.

Officials with the NBC news program Dateline changed their minds about airing the story and now MSNBC producers are filming a documentary on it.

There is a certain portion of the population that will actually be hauled off to jail if they answer their doors for trick or treaters on Saturday night.

The police department is training a new K9. Friday, the dog worked on open area searches trying to find a suspect who was hiding in a tree.

State health officials are reporting three more deaths in Idaho related to the swine flu.

A two month investigation lands a local man in jail. 23-year-old Kevin Jones is in the Bannock County Jail charged with two counts of rape.

A second Gem State county has now passed a resolution requesting state assistance for what they consider to be an imminent threat.

Officers from the Pocatello Police Department were called in early Thursday afternoon when hundreds of people started to line up at the LDS church across the street from Tendoy Elementary for the first free H1N1 flu vaccine clinic being offered in Bannock County.

Just days ago, Bannock County was the first in the State to send Governor Otter a Declaration of Disaster for the swine flu.

There's growing concern over the battle with the H1N1 Swine Flu virus in Idaho. Eastern Idaho has not been spared with Bannock, Bonneville and Bingham counties listed among the top ten counties with confirmed cases of swine flu.

With hundreds of people crammed inside our local jails, what would happen if there was a breakout of swine flu? We spent the day at the Bannock County Jail to find out how they're preparing.

The Bannock County Commissioners voted on a resolution Wednesday requesting that Idaho Governor Butch Otter declare a state of emergency for the county over concerns about the H1N1 virus.

The Southeastern District Health Department will be implementing plans for vaccinating residents of Fort Hall, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Butte, Caribou, Franklin, Oneida, and Power counties from the H1N1 flu through vaccination clinics and Points of Dispensing or PODS over the next few months.

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A school marching band bus trip turned deadly Saturday after the bus the group was riding in crashed in southern Idaho.

Fifteen people are looking to fill an open magistrate judge's seat in the Bannock County Courthouse.

Classes at American Fork High resumed Monday after a vigil in a packed gymnasium the night before that was held for a band instructor who died in a weekend bus crash.

A charter bus carrying students from a marching band from American Fork, Utah crashed on the southbound side of I-15, two miles north of McCammon in Bannock County at 7:18 p.m. Saturday night.