Minidoka County News

Currently Cassia counties dispatch services handles calls from that area; Minidoka County Emergency Services, however, responds to the area.

Minidoka County Prosecutor Lance Stevenson says a teen charged with felony vehicular manslaughter has reached a plea agreement with his office.

The Times-News reports that 5th District Judge John Butler ruled Tuesday that 34-year-old Traci Hadden will be tried in nearby Jerome County or Minidoka County because community bias is too great in Lincoln County.

A southern Idaho county that doesn't have the money to hire a consultant to help set land use, housing and public services goals will instead get help from a college student who is doing the job for free as part of her school internship.

The Idaho School Board Association has announced it is collaborating with insurance provider Moreton & Co.

Former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's new consulting firm, New West Strategies, has been hired by Cassia and Minidoka counties to help Cassia County land a $300 million federal prison.

Some members of the Burley City Council say they don't want to chip in for a lobbying effort by Cassia County to bring a federal prison to Malta.

Leaders in two Southern Idaho counties are working with a lobbying firm founded by former U.S. Sen.

The Idaho Judicial Council is seeking public comment on nine attorneys who are in the running for a position as 5th District judge.

Gov. Butch Otter named Caldwell attorney Susan Wiebe as a 3rd District judge today, and picked Bannock County Magistrate Judge Robert Naftz of Pocatello for a 6th District judgeship.

At the Minidoka Memorial Hospital, some behind the scene changes could be taking place.

Bailey was charged with two counts of lewd conduct with a child under the age of 16 - and criminal solicitation to commit a crime - all in Minidoka county.

A jack knifed tractor trailer forced one lane westbound on Interstate 84 to close for a while.

Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter today named Fifth Judicial District Judge John Michael Melanson to the Idaho Court of Appeals.

An Inkom couple walked away from a plane crash in Minidoka County Thursday afternoon.

Two people walked away from an airplane crash in Minidoka County. Authorities say Bob and Cindy Nestor were flying in a A60 Fixed Wing multi-engine plane from Boise to Pocatello on Thursday when the plane lost its two engines.

The pilot and his wife walked away after their 1970 Beech A60 crashed landed Thursday afternoon near the Bear Trap air strip.

A teen from Paul has been scheduled for an October trial on a vehicular manslaughter charge.

One day after the prison escapees allegedly tried to break into her home, Cassidy Lockett got a bigger gun.

Work is set to start Monday on the 500 west overpass on Ia '84. In January this semi truck hauling a fork lift that exceeded the legal height limit damaged the overpass.