Cassia County News

Idaho city officials lobby Minidoka County commission to support airport plan Minidoka County commissioners told Burley officials that they wanted to talk with Cassia County officials before they signed a letter of support for Burley's plan to replace the J.R. Simplot Airport in south-central Idaho.

BURLEY, IDAHO More delays are what the Idaho State Transportation Department is saying for those motorists who travel the 850 West Road where it passes over I-84 in Cassia County.

BURLEY, ID The Cassia County Commissioners looked into redistricting in their county, and what the new maps would look like.

A federal judge in Seattle has sentenced "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore to 6 1/2 years in prison for his infamous 2-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts that ended in 2010.

A southeastern Idaho woman has been convicted of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter for the August crash that killed her 4-year-old daughter.

BURLEY, IDAHO Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Officials in Cassia County say 61 year old Lynn Keesler of Houston was stuck in a dairy wastewater pond for nearly a week.

Cassia County Commissioners are beginning to take a closer look at its judicial building.

On January 22 police in Cassia County were called to help a woman that had driven off in a ravine and had been there for 3 to 5 days.

Cassia County has a new urinalysis testing lab designed to reduce the cost the county spends on drug testing.

A Texas woman may have spent up to a week in a rental car stuck in an Idaho dairy wastewater pond after taking a wrong turn while looking for a hotel in Burley, authorities said.

Officials in south-central Idaho say they used a GPS tracking device embedded in copper wire to track down some would-be thieves.

The Cassia County Sheriff's department has arrested two men for Grand Theft after a copper wire sting operation.