Stories from Tuesday, June 12, 2007

The I-84 westbound off-ramp at Mountain Home (Exit 90) will close for several hours June 14 for maintenance work, the Idaho Transportation Department has announced. The off-ramp will close from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. while crews do bridge maintenance work...

A grass fire scorched close to four acres of BLM land on Highway 20 on Monday afternoon and traffic was delayed at the Pilot for about 30 minutes due to concerns that the fire might jump across the road and ignite the other side.

A family that just moved to the Mountain Home area from Nevada are appealing for help from the public in locating their missing family dog, Wishkah. The two year old black and white Collie mix, who was a Hurricane Katrina refugee as a puppy, went missing from the family home during a storm on June 7...