The air in the room was hot and muggy as more than 40 citizens packed the city council chamber for the June 14th City Council Meeting. Brock Cherry, Community Development Director, started the emotion packed meeting detailing the proposition for the Thunderbolt Landing Subdivision.

The proposal requests the development of 238 new homes on a land East of Legacy Park. Trilogy Development is asking to annex 47.49 acres between North 6th East and North 10th East.

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The City of Mountain Home will once again host the annual Fireworks put on by the Mountain Home Fire Department. The show will begin Sunday, July 4th at approx. 10:20 pm at the Desert Canyon Golf Course, according to Fire Chief Mark Moore.

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The Elmore County Board of Commissioners declares that conditions and circumstances within the County now or in the future will necessitate the imposition of an Open Fire ban to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public. Effective June 25 - October 1

The sixteenth annual Daniel Dopps Memorial Ram PRCA Rodeo will be held June 25th & 26th at Optimist Park in Mountain Home. The memorial rodeo celebrates the life of a young man whose dream to be a professional rodeo star was cut tragically short in an arena accident on August 10, 2005, when he and the bull he was riding went down together.

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ Idaho officials are bracing for what could be a challenging wildfire season.

A meteorologist on Tuesday told Republican Gov. Brad Little and other statewide elected officials on the Idaho Land Board that the state had its secon

For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper’s online edition. d driest spring in the last 126 years and one of its hottest previous 12 months