Bingham County News

Idaho has its first confirmed case of West Nile virus in a Bonneville County man who was hospitalized with the disease, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced Tuesday, but no mosquitoes carrying the virus have yet been found in Bingham County.

The Idaho Court of Appeals says it won't overturn the conviction of a man found guilty of taking part in a plan to beat up and rob a friend's landlord.

Courtney James Payan pleaded innocent Monday in Bingham County 7th District Court to a charge of second-degree murder in the May 25 stabbing death of 21-year-old Robert Padilla.

A powerful thunderstorm has flooded many portions of Pocatello. There are reports of flooding along S 5th and along the Old Bannock Highway.

It has been confirmed the last time the water levels were this high was during the floods of 1997.

Flash flooding prompted southeastern Idaho officials to declare a disaster area for Bannock County after a deluge closed roads, flooded homes, stopped cars in their tracks and caused landslides.

With all of the flooding in Bingham County and in the Rupert area, the Idaho Falls area still seems to be pretty safe from the waters.

Bingham County has declared the county a disaster area as recent flooding causes problems for their residents.

Flooding of the Snake River in areas from Shelley to Thomas and crop damage from two recent severe storms prompted the County Commissioners on Monday to declare an emergency and ask Gov.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare confirmed Monday that there were two confirmed cases of Novel H1N1 in Bingham County, but neither required hospitalization.

A 20-year-old Chubbuck man was running from law enforcement because he had two warrants out for his arrest.

Search and rescue teams are continuing their efforts to find a Pocatello man who went missing at the American Falls Reservoir on Saturday.

Officials with the Bingham County Sheriff's Office say they have not yet been able to recover the body of a Pocatello man who is presumed drowned after disappearing on the American Falls Reservoir.

Premier Technology President and CEO Doug Sayer received the American Patriot Award Monday from Alpha Battery of the 148th Field Artillery, Army National Guard in Blackfoot for his support of the guard and reserves.

One person is dead after a single vehicle accident on Interstate 15 near Blackfoot.

The Downtown Blackfoot Streets Festival gets underway today beginning at 5 p.m. in the block of North Broadway between West Bridge and West Pacific streets.

Bingham County Prosecutors have thrown out charges against Jeffrey Lee Harrington, the man accused of being an accessory in the death of Robert Padilla last month.

Bingham County Magistrate Charles Roos has thrown out an accessory to a felony charge against a Blackfoot man.

Faced with complaints of the financial burden placed on some Bingham County property owners over their inability to make use of five acre lots they believed were buildable when they bought the land, the County Commissioners proposed a solution Monday: They will take insert a section in the county's revised zoning ordinance due to come before them ...

A woman who protested that she didn't want to be a teacher until seeing the positive influence a good one can have on young minds has packed her personal belongings and left the building.