LEWISTON, ID - Prescribed fire is an important tool for both the forestry and agricultural communities. Fire benefits the ecosystem by decreasing or slowing diseases, stimulating growth, and reducing the potential for catastrophic wildfires. Prescribed burning only occurs when it is allowed by fire protection authorities.

LEWISTON - With shorter daylight hours, construction delays on US-95 in Culdesac Canyon near Winchester are shifting earlier and expected to affect evening commutes as fall conditions require a change in the contractor’s blasting schedule.

LEWISTON, ID -  Based on historical trends and lower gas prices, AAA Idaho says it’s reasonable to project that 198,000 Idahoans will take advantage of warm weather for a Labor Day getaway.  Nationwide, up to 36 million Americans could follow suit.  About 90 percent will drive.

LEWISTON, ID - According to the Move.org Idaho ranks eleventh in the most afforable college tuition in the country.

LEWISTON, ID -  At least two people are killed every day on U.S. roads as a result of reckless or inattentive drivers who run a red light, according to a new report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

KOOTENAI, ID - According to Idaho8Man on twitter, they received word from Wallace AD Bruce Bailey, a co-op agreement has been approved between Wallace and Kootenai for football in 2019. 

KAMIAH, ID – Law Enforcement Officers with the USDA Forest Service are seeking any information the public has related to recent vandalism at O'Hara Campground, located on the Moose Creek Ranger District of the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests at the confluence of O’Hara Creek and the Selway River. A concrete picnic table at one of the campsites was broken and marked with obscenities.

MOSCOW, ID — People skeptical of the medical establishment who live close to a measles outbreak have a greater chance of changing their mind, according to a University of Idaho study.

OLYMPIA, WA – Today Washington State Health Officer Dr. Kathy Lofy signed a statewide standing order for naloxone, a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose. The standing order works like a prescription and allows any person or organization in the state to get naloxone from a pharmacy.

LEWISTON, ID – Michael Wasson, a 2012 graduate of Lewis-Clark State College, was one of five winners of the prestigious Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine 2019 Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships, it was announced Tuesday.

LEWISTON, ID - The City of Lewiston will be widening and adding additional lanes to the intersection of 17th street and 16th Avenue.  

LAPWAI, ID – Volunteers at Nez Perce National Historical Park will join hundreds of thousands of people across the nation for the largest single-day volunteer effort for public lands. The event kicks off at 9 a.m. on Saturday, September 28, 2019. Volunteers who help rehabilitate and improve habitat in the park will receive a coupon redeemable for one fee free day in a National Park.

COEUR D’ALENE,ID  – Jerome Leen-Whitewater, 34, of Post Falls, Idaho, and codefendant
Chauncey Franklin Whitright IV, 40, of Worley, Idaho, were sentenced this week in
U.S. District Court for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis
announced.

Boise, Idaho – Governor Brad Little issued the following statement today in response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to uphold Judge B. Lynn Winmill’s ruling that the State of Idaho must provide gender reassignment surgery to transgender inmate Adree Edmo.

LEWISTON, ID - Overall, hunters should see plenty of elk and white-tailed deer, and about average for mule deer

Idaho deer and elk hunters should see good to excellent hunting for elk and white-tailed deer, and average mule deer hunting in 2019, but that’s likely to vary by location across the state.