Idaho County News

Officials in Cassia County say they want a better way to track community college residency costs.

Hate to take his 50 cents, but Dems nearly outnumber Republicans among Idaho's 44 county namesakes: Jefferson, the eastern Idaho county named after the third president of the United States.

A company that pushed to build a residential treatment center for troubled teens in rural western Idaho is suing Boise County in federal court, saying commissioners violated the Fair Housing Act when they scuttled the center's proposal amid staunch local opposition.

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The Idaho County Sheriff's Office has released the name of an inmate who reportedly hung himself at the county jail last week.

A 64-year-old Jerome man is presumed drowned after his fishing boat capsized along the Snake River.

A southern Idaho county that doesn't have the money to hire a consultant to help set land use, housing and public services goals will instead get help from a college student who is doing the job for free as part of her school internship.

Northcentral Idaho leaders say they've been contacted by a pair of wind-energy companies over the past year that are scouting the region for gusty grounds.

Federal environmental regulators say Franklin County is not meeting clean air benchmarks for fine particle pollution.

"I believe these lands belong to the state of Idaho, and that the federal government has unjustly taken them from us," Rammell told the Idaho County Free Press last week.

The Clearwater County Sheriff's Office was notified Sept. 27 of three subjects that had not returned to Orofino from an evening motorcycle ride.

Deputy Jeremy Smith, who returned to work Monday, was shot in the hand Aug. 31 by a .22 caliber Ruger Mark IV handgun at the Hagerman home of Sgt.

She's determined to keep the needy fed and the Idaho County Food Bank open. Her name is Leta Akins, a woman in Grangeville who's inspiring a community to give.

A Kamiah man is expected to enter a plea to a burglary charge next week. A preliminary hearing was held Tuesday afternoon for 21-year-old Anthony Cobbs.

Authorities say they have arrested a 21-year-old man on charges of aiding and abetting a burglary that led to the fatal shooting of another man in April.

A state judge is considering the fairness of allowing testimony from a convicted murderer's first trial to be used in the second one.

Idaho Department of Correction officials say they're searching for an inmate who escaped from the North Idaho Correctional Institution in Cottonwood sometime late Monday night or early Tuesday morning.

A A A A A half dozen law enforcement agencies, U.S. Forest Service firefighters and Idaho National Guard helicopters combed a steep hillside along Highway 12 Monday after an employee of the Clearwater National Forest discovered a large marijuana plantation last week containing 2,770 growing plants being fed by an irrigation system.

Authorities in northern Idaho say they have seized more than 2,700 marijuana plants from a patch of public land in Idaho County.

A big marijuana growing operation in Idaho County is out of business. The Idaho County Sheriff's Office says some 2,777 plants were uprooted in the Bridge Creek area on Forest Service land, near milepost 93 on Highway 12.