Sun Valley News

HAILEY, Idaho -- A survey of the Hailey Cemetery using ground-penetrating radar has found hundreds of unmarked graves.

No other community in south-central Idaho has been hit harder by the recession than Shoshone, where the unemployment rate surpassed 14 percent in October. Blame it on Blaine County, say local and state officials.

Incumbent Nils Ribi was re-elected to the Sun Valley City Council on Tuesday, winning the most votes of any candidate.

Bobby Corker waters the 16 chickens The Community School students are raising over a 45-day period at the Sun Valley school.

The Ketchum Planning and Zoning Commission is recommending that 138 acres be annexed into the city as part of a plan by Sun Valley Co.

In the middle of a scenic riverside meadow on the frontier of Boise's stalled eastern sprawl is an elk that likes to run with the bulls.

Three Sun Valley residents will be disappointed next week, when two City Council seats are filled from a pool of five candidates. Fortunately for those who aren't elected, all the candidates agree they live in a city that is generally on the right track. "We want to make sure we continue to make this a great place to live, and part of that is having a good, solid, fiscally sound city," said incumbent Nils Ribi, 54, who previously served on the planning and zoning commission and has lived in Sun Valley for 21 years. "It boils down to livability."

The candidates have spoken, campaigns are in full swing and today the newspaper weighs in with endorsements.

A strong cold front brought big weather changes last night; some local areas had not just wind, but snow, as well.

Four of the valley's city council candidates - one in Sun Valley and three in Bellevue - have refused to answer a questionnaire posed by the Sawtooth Board of Realtors.

The new 138,000-volt power line planned between Hailey and Ketchum could look something like this stretch between Woodside and Hailey, if it's built parallel to the existing line along Highway 75.

One more step was taken last week in the march toward relocating Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey.

Bill and Kimberly Yant were new to the art business when they bought Zantman Gallery in Carmel, but they knew they had acquired a business with a good track record.

The final Pizza and Politics forum of the election season was on Wednesday, Oct. 14, but all three of the events can be viewed in their entirety at the Idaho Mountain Express Web site, www.mtexpress.com.

The Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree continues to celebrate its 20th anniversary through Sunday, Oct.

It started with a new prom dress, a hair-styling session and a manicure. It grew to $31,000 applied toward a mechanical engineering degree. And it happened because of the convergence of five-dozen caring women and a grateful young woman who took the time to write thank-you notes.

John F. Kennedy Jr. received four stitches in his head after capsizing during a sail with his cousin Victoria Lawford.

DeNovo Independence's latest attempt at persuading the city of Sun Valley to allow a 12-home development on the hills above Elkhorn was denied at a special City Council meeting Tuesday afternoon.

Idaho cannabis campaigner Ryan Davidson has won a lawsuit against the Marijuana Policy Project , hoping to recoup some of the funding he was promised five years ago when he began efforts to legalize in Blaine County.

TV Today's 6: Idaho's News Sun Valley Gets 17 Inches Of Snow In Seasons First Storm SUN VALLEY, ID....... Sun Valley's first snowstorm of the 74th winter season brought 17 inches to the top of Baldy.