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TWIN FALLS, Idaho – 3G Ventures celebrated the grand opening and ribbon cutting last month of its new Ashley Outlet store in Twin Falls, with Chamber of Commerce and company leaders joined by store employees for the event. Opened on June 1, the 18,000-square-foot showroom is located at 1305...

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked an agreement between water users in Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado in a ruling that allows the federal government to assert control of water in times of disagreement. Yes, you read that correctly. The conservative leaning U.S. Supreme Court just set a precedent that...

UPDATE: The venue has changed the opening to July 12. A new speakeasy is opening in Twin Falls on July 12th promising excitement and fun for those wanting a new nightlife experience. The History of the Speakeasy. Speakeasies have a rich history, rooted in the Prohibition era of the 1920s...

The Preston High School football team annual coed flag football fundraiser directed by Cody Traveler finished up on June 29. It was three weeks long with two games a night once a week on Friday at the Preston High School field. Despite a little higher numbers this year, the second and third grade teams had to play a game or two against fourth and fifth grade teams to fill out their schedules. The older teams were good sports about trying hard enough to challenge the young players, but not hard enough to discourage the younger less experienced players. All of...

While Shoshone County housing sales were up through May, the median home price was down. Sixty homes sold in the first five months of this year in Shoshone County, an increase of 3.4% over the same time frame last year. The median sales price was $281,000, down 7.2% from the same time last year, according to the Coeur d'Alene Regional Realtors website.

Happy 4th of July from Sport (the dog) and Andrew Jackson Kent. Be Safe. The Boundary County Historical Society and Museum, 7229 Main St., Bonners Ferry, Idaho sponsors this column. Visit the museum, Thursday-Saturday 10 a.m.-3 p.m., or visit the website at boundarycountymuseum.org or the museum’s Facebook page for historical...

A cave-in at the east portal of the No.1 tunnel, Spokane International Railway Co. four miles north of Bonners Ferry, occurred Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock. Section and wrecking crews have been working day and night to clear away the 1,500 yards of rock and dirt which covered the right-of-way for a considerable distance. Tuesday evening the passengers on Train No.1 westbound had to walk around the mountainside a distance of a good quarter mile to the west end of the tunnel and board a special train which had been sent from Spokane.

SANDPOINT — With fun team names like the "Feisty Strawberries" and the "Sassy Sasquatches," and with Sandpoint High varsity track and field athletes as coaches, the Sandpoint Parks and Recreation’s youth track and field program was a hit with local youngsters of all ages this past spring. The...

SANDPOINT, Idaho – The Sandpoint Police Department is searching for a hit and run suspect. According to the department, a passing truck hit someone’s vehicle and then sped off on the 1000 block of Cedar Street around 2:30 p.m. Thursday. Anyone with information on the hit and run...

POCATELLO — A woman was rushed to the hospital following a two-vehicle wreck that temporarily shut down a west Pocatello intersection on Wednesday evening. The collision involving Hyundai and Ford sedans occurred around 8:30 p.m. at West Carson Street and North Grant Avenue next to Raymond Park. The adult female driver of one of the cars was injured in the crash. She was transported via Pocatello Fire Department ambulance to...

Eleven out of 17 proposals from Idaho National Laboratory have been awarded funding through a highly competitive federal program. The U.S. Department of Energy awarded INL with $7.5 million from it...

In my column last week describing my trip home from Coeur d’ Alene, I mentioned that a few items of consideration were approved by the general delegate assembly despite my dissenting vote. I would like to editorialize about one of them. As you may have read, one of the...

One of Idaho’s most controversial former prosecutors sought in effect to serve the equivalent of 20 days instead of 30.

The Franklin County Daughters of Utah Pioneers, along with the Forest Rangers of the Cache National Forest, made improvements to Thomas Springs recently. The location on the Cub River Road has a DUP monument to mark the early mail route between Franklin and Bear Lake and also the first telegraph line, both on the old Shoshone Indian Trail. The trail turns north from Thomas Spring, then east, ending on the other side of the mountains in the north fork of Bloomington Meadows.