Payette County News

For several years now, energy experts have been predicting a nuclear renaissance in this country.

Residents of southwest Idaho appear sharply divided over a proposed new nuclear power plant near the OregonIdaho border.

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At one point the possibility of a nuclear power plant in Elmore County seemed to have stalled, but the controversial plan is far from dead.

A man and woman were booked into the Payette County Jail Monday after leading police on a high-speed chase in rural Payette County.

Experts think as many as 800 of them are walking around Idaho. They're walking around with serious wounds.

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As debate continues over the fate of a proposed nuclear power plant in Elmore County, the company backing the initiative submitted an application Monday seeking an alternate site in Payette County for the generating facility.

Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. says it's asking Payette County to amend a plan that governs land use, so it can build a nuclear power plant on approximately 5,100 acres in western Idaho.

A Payette County Sheriff's Office Lieutenant has been arrested for Driving Under the Influence.

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Idaho State Police Troopers, Washington County Sheriff Deputies and Payette County Sheriff Deputies responded to a three vehicle head-on collision Saturday afternoon between Payette and Weiser.

Hot summer weather makes getting out on the water tempting but local first responders say everyone thinking of hitting the water this summer should be careful.

A 17-year-old Boise teen is trying to create a support group for young women who have been victimized by sexual assault.

A former volunteer firefighter from Parma is headed to federal prison for six years, for six felony counts of setting fires on public land.

A federal judge has sentenced a former volunteer firefighter from southwestern Idaho to six years in prison for intentionally setting wildfires on public land in the summer of 2007.

Police agencies in Payette County will be cracking down on DUI drivers this weekend.

Payette Police are looking for your help to find Frank Lee Orendor. The 46-year-old male from Payette has been missing since Thursday.

A Weiser teenager was killed in a one-vehicle rollover accident on Highway 95 early Sunday morning.