I didn't realize today was a day celebrating this popular snack, but here we are! This time-honored snack can be salty and buttered, sweet or savory, tossed with nuts and chocolate, the list goes on and on. However you enjoy it, enjoy it today, January 19th. 

RITZVILLE, WA - Two occupants were involved in a fatal single car crash near Ritzville Washington, yesterday afternoon. The driver, identified as Joe Crow; and his passenger, George Crow, were Eastbound on I90 when Joe lost control of the vehicle, causing it to roll. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

(McCall, Idaho) Trees blackened by the Woodhead Fire near Council, Idaho still have value in the timber market, but not for long. That’s why Idaho Department of Lands forestry staff began evaluating the potential for selling the burned trees as salvage sales even before the fire was contained. Logging is already underway in the snow-covered area and began in late October.

The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office Day Shift handled the following notable calls:  

OLYMPIA, WA - Security remains at high alert at the Washington State Capitol in preparation for Biden's inauguration day coming up, and will likely remain so for the rest of the week. 

On January 18, 1919, in Paris, France, some of the most powerful people in the world meet to begin the long, complicated negotiations that would officially mark the end of the First World War.

BOISE, ID - Last March, from Boise to Cascade and Challis, people felt the effects of a 6.5 magnitude earthquake. Last week, a research professor with the Department of Geosciences at Boise State University named Lee Liberty, released what scientists discovered since that earthquake shook things up north of Stanley. 

(The Center Square) – The National Rifle Association announced on Friday it seeks to file for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. It’s part of a move the pro-Second Amendment rights organization is taking to restructure as a Texas-based organization and leave New York, where it has been incorporated for about 150 years.

President elect Joe Biden's inauguration is just days away, and he's already planning a 10-day blitz of executive actions on wha he's deemed, "the four crises" facing our country.

The City of Lewiston 2020 Transportation Plan is in the works, but your input is crucial in the prioritization and
overall implementation of projects. This plan will help guide improvements in Lewiston’s transportation system
for the next 20 years by establishing goals and objectives, consolidating projects from other existing transportation plans and studies conducted over the past decade, and identifying new projects based on analysis of existing conditions.

Lapwai, Idaho – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and U.S. Forest Service (“USFS”) announced a settlement agreement with Midas Gold despite strong opposition from the Nez Perce Tribe and numerous requests that the agencies allow pre-decisional public comment and evaluation by the incoming Biden Administration. In exchange for agreeing to perform very limited cleanup activities at the Site, Midas Gold received through this settlement agreement—known as an Administrative Settlement and Order on Consent—a glide path toward constructing its proposed, huge, open-pit gold mine at the historical Stibnite Mine Site (“Site”). The Tribe is deeply disappointed by this political decision.

On January 15, 2021, at approximately 8:55 am, the Idaho State Police investigated a two-vehicle injury crash on US95 at Lovell Valley Road, near milepost 393. This is just south of Plummer in Benewah County, ID. 

LEWISTON, ID - The Lewiston–Nez Perce County Airport will be holding a meeting this coming Tuesday, January 19th, at 3:00 P.M.

OLYMPIA – Today, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) announced that based on Governor Jay Inslee’s Healthy Washington – Roadmap to Recovery plan, all eight (8) regions in Washington will remain in Phase 1 until at least Monday, January 25, 2021.

The Washington State Department of Ecology is proposing to award $282 million in grants and loans for 108 high-priority clean water projects across the state.