Stories from Sunday, August 14, 2016

Elmore County Friends of the National Rifle Association will hold its sixth annual banquet and fundraiser Aug. 20. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. that evening at the Mountain Home Elks Lodge, 325 South 3rd West St., in Mountain Home. "There is something for everyone at a Friends of NRA banquet," said Mike Mixon, a spokesman with the Elmore County Friends of NRA chapter. ...

With construction on its expanded emergency department scheduled to start in coming weeks, officials at St. Luke's Elmore Medical Center expect to temporarily move the hospital's front entrance. Contractors are building a temporary entryway west of the existing front entrance that will allow patients and visitors safe access into the hospital when the next phase of the emergency department expansion project begins...