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LSI proposes $2,000 per month to city over five years after wrong recycling cart order.  If you didn’t know, they ordered recycle roll carts that were nearly indistinguishable in shape, size, and color, from the garbage roll carts. They were going to sell back those 4,800 carts, but no one wants them!  Latah Sanitation Inc.

A fire that burned nearly 12,000 acres along the Snake River was declared 100 percent contained Sunday night. More than 300 firefighters assisted in extinguishing the blaze. Three college-aged men allegedly admitted to starting a campfire in the area Aug. 1, but the case remains under investigation.

Here’s one for the Darwin Awards: CENTRALIA, Wash. – Fire officials in Centralia say a resident sparked a small fire in an apartment while trying to kill cockroaches with a homemade flamethrower.     KOMO-TV reports that fire crews were called to the apartment on Monday morning after receiving a report of a commercial structure

Mid-morning strike sets empty residence ablaze as neighbors work to save their structures. Heavy smoke and embers floated through the air during a house fire Sunday in Asotin as fire crews fought to extinguish the blaze. The fire was reported around 9:14 a.m. at 717 Pierce St., after a flash of light and a loud

Idaho residents will soon need to dial 10 digits whenever they pick up the telephone as the state introduces a second area code. On Nov. 5, a transition period will start in which dialers using 10 and seven digits will have completed calls. Starting Aug. 5, 2017, calls won’t go through when dialers use seven

A state agency will not see repayment on the defunct Idaho Education Network broadband project — despite a state Supreme Court order to do so. Administration Department Director Robert Geddes decided not to seek money from project vendors, Rebecca Boone of the Associated Press reported Friday. And his decision will drop the issue into the lap of

Who would have ever thought that the words “lady” and “ladies” would be offensive to feminists.  Let me tell you how I got in trouble with ladies. No, not “the” ladies. Not, in fact, female human beings, period. Rather, I’m talking about the word itself, “ladies.” Years ago, my editor was a female human being

  PRESTON, Idaho – An Idaho man stumbled upon a rare find while digging in a gravel pit on his property. Kasey Keller of Preston tells KIFI-TV  that at first he thought he’d found a plastic pipe, then petrified wood. But when he noticed the object looked like bone, he called in the experts. Utah

LOWMAN, Idaho – Two of three roads leading into and out of a small town in mountainous central Idaho are closed and residents have been told to be ready to evacuate as a 100-square-mile wildfire defies containment.  Officials say crews on Monday are putting in fire lines to the west and south of the town

Marijuana sales in the state of Washington topped one billion dollars since voters approved the sale of recreational pot in 2014. In July the Liquor and Cannabis Board consolidated medical and recreational pot under the same regulations, boosting July sales to more than 121 million dollars across the state. That set a record for the

A 25,000-acre wildfire near Palouse Falls is threatening homes, crops, a fish hatchery and a state highway, officials said Monday. The blaze started with a lightning strike Sunday in Palouse Falls State Park, a popular hiking destination in Franklin County about five miles southeast of Washtucna, according to the Washington State Patrol. Virginia Painter, a

11,452 acres burned as of Sunday afternoon.  The Snake River Complex Fire was 85 percent contained as of Sunday afternoon after only consuming 90 acres during the weekend. The fire, which jumped a one-quarter mile section of the Snake River on Tuesday afternoon near Granite Point, had burned a total of 11,452 acres as of

With the national debt nearing $1 trillion and partisan gridlock gripping the country’s law-making bodies, some members of Congress are looking at new ways to create an annual federal budget. Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said this inability to pass a budget and control federal spending is what

“Free people are not equal, and equal people are not free.” “Don’t get hung up on differences in income when they result from people being themselves. If they result from artificial political barriers, then get rid of those barriers. But don’t try to take unequal people and compress them into some homogenous heap. You’ll never