Gem County News

Owner of federally funded Idaho sawmill says it will reopen Dick Vinson mortgaged his ranch near Thompson Falls, Mont., to help build and operate a sawmill in Emmett in Idaho's timber-rich Gem County, and he got $4 million in federal stimulus funds to create much-need jobs in the county, but a series of problems put the sawmill in foreclosure, ... (more)

Idaho's Redistricting Commission passed, by unanimous vote Friday, a new way to slice up Idaho's legislative districts, after seeing its last plan shot down by the Idaho Supreme Court for crossing over too many of the Gem State's county lines.

Friday is a national day of remembrance for downwinders, people who worked and lived downwind from nuclear testing sites and got sick from the radiation.

KBOI 2 News told you about "The Community Phone Book" in May when the apparent scam hit Homedale.

"You don't understand," she said. "You're left wondering. There are no answers. What can you tell your kids? What can you tell anybody?" Her own experience with those questions made Wood's response to her community's last month all the more acute.