Bovill News

The first day of spring roared in like a lion, with high winds and heavy rains throughout the region.

At 2:15 p.m. Pacific Time Wednesday National Weather Service-Missoula issued a special weather statement for western Clearwater County advising of a strong thunderstorm along a line extending from 14 miles northwest of Bovill to Culdesac and moving east at 40 miles per hour.

A northern Idaho snowplow driver was injured and a lane on the road he was plowing closed for several hours after the snowplow got too close to the road edge and rolled into the ditch.

Officials in Latah County say divers have recovered the body of a Troy resident from a popular north-central Idaho swimming hole.