Soda Springs News

Police are investigating a multi-vehicle accident that happened just after 3:00 PM Sunday in Caribou County.

Divers on Wednesday ended a fourth day of searching without finding any sign of 29-year-old Jesse Lyon of Soda Springs, Idaho.

Nine-hundred planned layoffs wont have much impact on Southeast Idaho. Monsanto is based in St.Louis, but employs more than 700 workers in Southeastern Idaho, with a plant in Soda Springs and mining operations around the region.

Searchers were back out on the Hudson River, near the Rockwell Bridge in Warren County, on Monday, but there was still no sign of a 20-year-old Navy sailor who is believed to have drowned while swimming Sunday.

Attorneys for a man sentenced to death for killing a bank teller with a sawed-off shotgun during a 1991 robbery say he should be given a new sentencing hearing due to mistakes made by his previous lawyers.

A new phosphate mine is in consideration with the hopes to have it up and running within a year.

Idaho death row inmate Timothy Dunlap is seeking a third sentencing hearing. Dunlap, now 40, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 23-year-old Tonya Crane during a Soda Springs bank robbery.

Simplot announced on Monday they will be laying off 114 employees. 78 workers will become un-employed at the Don Plant in Pocatello, while another 36 will be let go from the Smoky Canyon Mine in Soda Springs.

Freedom, Wyo ., is a little town in Star Valley that most of us have either never heard of or never paid much attention to as we drove through it on the way to Soda Springs, Idaho.

Board members and guests were treated to dinner and a play at Monday nighta s Challis Joint District #181 School Board meeting at Patterson Elementary School.

One person was sent to the hospital last night after a one vehicle roll over near Eden.

Chains or snow tires are required on Highway 88 over Carson Pass, while Interstate 80 over Donner Summit and U.S. 50 over Echo Summit are open with no controls.

House Speaker Lawerence Denney won't hold a hearing this year on a bill that seeks to require Idaho residents to present photo identification before registering to vote and casting their ballots.

Eastern Idaho could soon see a return of passenger rail service. In 1997 passenger rail service by Amtrak on the Pioneer Route was stopped in Pocatello.

Across eastern Idaho, over 700 volunteer weather spotters and cooperative observers have provided valuable weather reports which are fundamental in helping the NWS to protect life and property.

Senate President Pro Tem Bob Geddes is pushing a bill aimed at revamping how Idaho draws its 35 legislative districts following a new U.S. Census, after losing a 2002 Idaho Supreme Court case that challenged the previous effort as unconstitutional.

What a prospect! Lawmakers, staffers, lobbyists, reporters, citizens, state workers and more who've tried crowding into the cramped, stuffy, hot hearing rooms of the Capitol Annex for hearings, who've jostled ...

SODA SPRINGS - Craig Bird Pearson passed away due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Tuesday, February 17, 2009, in Soda Springs, Idaho.

Standing awkwardly in front of Boise's elite Capitol press corps as reporters munched on $12 sandwiches and sipped iced tea, Senate President Pro Tem Bob Geddes asked a telling rhetorical question: "Are my ...

The top Republicans in the Idaho House and Senate say raising taxes is not an option for helping the state survive economic turmoil.