Canyon County News

Because of population growth over the past decade, Canyon County has to redraw its precinct boundaries and establish new polling places -- and it all has to be done by February 27th.

CALDWELL A Meridian man will spend 15 years in prison for his role in a murder-for-hire scheme.

Boise Police have been actively investigating a violent home invasion robbery that occurred Jan.

Travis Manning, author of the Book Bear's guest post from a few days ago, Why do Idaho charter schools have 10% fewer Brown students than White? announced his candidacy for the open legislative seat in District 10, Canyon County.

French cheesemaker to expand operations in Idaho Officials of Lactalis American Group, a division of the French conglomerate Groupe Lactalis, were in Idaho on Monday, where they announced the company would build a new processing plant next to existing operations in Canyon County to make fresh mozzarella, and that the plant, which will be the ... (more)

Decker, 27, was born and raised in nearby Emmett, and is graduate of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Communication.

Local police are seeking information leading to the arrest of a possible arsonist in Canyon County.

ValleyRide's service in Ada and Canyon counties costs nearly $20 million a year.

Police say one of two masked gunmen who broke into a Nampa home early Friday morning is still on the loose after eluding officers.

Jeers to Idaho state Treasurer Ron Crane. Crane spends lavishly. He's above the rules.

The Canyon County Fire Investigation Team is trying to nab a possible arsonist. Over a dozen suspicious fires through the last six months have been reported, ranging in small grass fires to the complete destruction of at least three abandoned homes.

All three of Idaho's community colleges strongly opposed legislation designed to expand their boards and impose new residency rules on the additional members, and after hearing from them this morning, the House Education Committee killed the bill.

Investigators from the Canyon County Fire Investigation Team have responded to over a dozen suspicious fires throughout the last six month period ranging from simple grass fires to the complete destruction of at least three abandoned homes.

But, it's not uncommon to see a bus with just a few people on board. So, who's paying for the service when so few passengers are on board? It's you, the taxpayer.

Sixty-three-year-old Ernest "Randy" Holloway, an engineer from Idaho Falls and a pyrotechnics hobbyist, lost his right arm and suffered damage to his eyesight in the accident at his second home near Melba on Dec.

On Monday just before midnight, the Canyon County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of single vehicle traffic crash on Franklin Road, east of the Sorrento Lactalis Cheese Factory.

A 27-year-old Nampa man was killed in a crash late Monday evening, the Canyon County Sheriff's Office says.

Legislative auditors released a report Monday accusing Treasurer Ron Crane of improperly documenting his office's expenditures, violations they say include failing to use Idaho's accounting system to track annual trips to New York City.

A 34-year-old woman has been arrested after she allegedly had unprotected sex with a teen boy, officials say.

These changes will pit Senator Patti Lodge against Senator Melinda Smyser in the 2012 election, but this isn't new-they would have met in the previous plan as well.