Stories from Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Emergency response agencies in Owyee County will team up with the U.S. Bureau of Homeland Security and Idaho Power to test an emergency response plan Nov. 18. Scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. that day, the exercise scenario involves a simulated breach at the C.J. Strike Dam south of Mountain Home...

Kenneth L. Black of Mountain Home passed away peacefully on his 82nd birthday, Nov. 16, 2015. Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home.

City and county leaders met in an emergency session Tuesday afternoon to discuss an ongoing fire at a private landfill managed by Idaho Waste Systems on Simco Road. The landfill remains closed as a fire continues to burn at the site.