Stories from Sunday, June 7, 2015

Seven teams from Mountain Home and Mountain Home Air Force Base met on the soccer field for a day of friendly competition during this year's bubble soccer tournament, held Saturday at Legacy Park. Unlike traditional soccer matches, the competition required players to battle it out while wearing inflatable bubble suits, which often sent players tumbling end over end when they collided with one another...

Two years after a pair of range fires caused heavy damage to range land north of Mountain Home, the Bureau of Land Management reopened some of these areas on Saturday. More than 54,000 acres of BLM-managed public land affected by the Pony and Elk fires were made available to non-motorized entry...

The Mountain Home Ranger District opened several recreation areas to overnight camping along the South Fork Boise River and the west side of Anderson Ranch Reservoir on Monday. The measure follows an extended period where these sites were restricted to daytime use...