Payette News

Thanks to a wet spring, the infamous boulder garden at the end of the Staircase rapid on the South Fork of the Payette is still wonderfully submerged.

The Idaho Transportation Department's Division of Aeronautics will sponsor several two-day Teacher Aviation Workshops this month to demonstrate how aviation subjects can be incorporated into regular classroom lessons.

Given the choice to end my weekend with this view or start my week with it, I went with the latter.

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.

A federal judge says the US Forest Service can't use an advisory committee's report on whether domestic sheep pose a disease risk to bighorn sheep because the committee was improperly formed.

Idaho businesses hired fewer people last month than they have during June for the last decade, pushing the forecasted seasonally adjusted unemployment rate up another half percentage point to 8.3 percent.

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.

When teams get called out to a water rescue on the Payette River, they know they may only have minutes to save lives.

Idaho had two white water festivals this month. The first was the Payette Boise Revival and the second was the Payette River Experience.

Fruit growers and others in southwest Idaho upset over the University of Idaho's plan to close it's Parma Research Extension Center say they want the decision reversed, the Associated Press reports.

Idaho State Police continue to investigate the deadly crash that sent a car into the Payetter River Thursday.

Idaho State Controller Donna Jones has announced that she will run for a second term as the state's chief fiscal officer.

Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials finally killed a bighorn ram that showed signs of pneumonia, on concern it could infect members of a herd native to the Salmon River canyon.

The potato might be on the license plate, but for many, Idaho's claim to fame doesn't come in the shape of a knobby tuber.

BOISE, Idaho - A University of Idaho research center has had evidence for 15 years that bighorn sheep can get deadly diseases directly from domestic sheep on the open range, despite the center coordinator's insistence to the contrary, an environmental group says.

Authorities in Washington County say the body of a missing Payette man has been pulled out of the Snake River.

Payette Police and other agencies are looking for a 46-year-old man who has been missing since last week.

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.

Idaho photos of the week! This view of the funnel-cloud near Payette at the north end of this storm was a real surprise to someone who hasn't witnessed such a cloud since we moved out here from Illinois in 2005.