Stories from Wednesday, July 15, 2015

A broken electrical line connection was linked to a wide-spread power outage that left an estimated 5,000 homes and businesses in Mountain Home without power for more than three hours on Wednesday. The outage began around 7:55 a.m. after a connecting line for a 69-killowatt transmission line broke, according to Stephanie McCurdy, a spokesperson with Idaho Power...

Medical care for military veterans and deep personnel cuts in the U.S. armed forces remain the top concerns for one of the nation's largest veterans organizations. Michael D. Helm, national commander for the American Legion, outlined these and other issues during his visit to Mountain Home last week during the organization's state convention...

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News The crime rate in Mountain Home rose in 2014 while Elmore County saw a decline in criminal activity, according to a yearly report released last week. The Idaho State Police Crime in Idaho report included data from the Mountain Home Police Department and Elmore County Sheriff's Department...

Flying operations at Mountain Home Air Force Base came to a temporary halt on Friday as work continues to replace the installation's runway. Earlier that day, the last of the base's F-15s left Mountain Home for bases in Nevada and Arizona, where they will continue to conduct flight training during the next phase of the $44 million project...

Don and Shelia Thompson of Mountain Home have announced the engagement of their son, Donald Thompson II, to Naomi Moxley from Meridian. The groom-to-be is a 2005 graduate from Mountain Home School and currently works for the Idaho Department of Correction in Boise...