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As cities across the U.S. assess damage from the coronavirus—both to people’s health and to the economy—Sun Valley and Ketchum are making plans to go back to basics.
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The Sun Valley Resort has announced its plans to welcome guests back into its numerous lodging options, recreational facilities and restaurants.
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COVID-19 cut short Sun Valley’s 2019-20 ski season by nearly a month—and now the resort is trying to make up for the lost time.
As the self-proclaimed canary-in-the-coal-mine city reopens its doors to construction, landscaping and ultimately tourists, city officials remain optimistic about the wisdom of their decision to let their public health order expire.
Tourism, along with everything else in a post-COVID-19 society, will look different.
There has been “really heartfelt cooperation and collaboration” from contractors in abiding with city safety standards at jobsites, Sun Valley Mayor Peter Hendricks said during a City Council discussion last week about reopening construction and landscaping.
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When Jeffrey Jones learned he’d be out of work for a while, the news didn’t come as a surprise.
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Construction and landscaping can resume on Monday in the city of Sun Valley.
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Allen & Co. cancelled its annual Sun Valley summit on Thursday, dealing another economic blow to the Wood River Valley, multiple sources familiar with the event confirmed to the Idaho Mountain Express.
In less than four days, Blaine County residents collected more than 200 ski goggles for healthcare workers, first responders and essential service workers who may be in need of protection.
Officials in Blaine County, Ketchum, Hailey, and Bellevue have all voted to adopt new restrictions on travel and construction in light of COVID-19.
Local jurisdictions will vote soon on jointly tightened terms of last week’s state-issued isolation order as the total of lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Blaine County hit 63. Meanwhile, the whole of Idaho has been asked to do what the Wood River Valley has done since last Friday: “shelte…
Sun Valley Resort is closing one of its employee housing buildings due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19, resort spokeswoman Kelli Lusk said Monday.
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The mayors of Ketchum and Sun Valley are asking Idaho’s governor for additional resources and increased testing capabilities as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Blaine County continues to rise.
As of Thursday, Blaine County had the most COVID-19 cases in the state. Amid the spread of the virus and increasingly restrictive guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cities throughout the Wood River Valley continues to reassess and respond accordingly.
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When Liza Green heard that COVID-19 had been found in Blaine County, the only thing that surprised her was that it hadn’t happened sooner.
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The Sun Valley Village will largely shut down on Wednesday, three days after the novel coronavirus closed lifts on Dollar and Bald Mountains.
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Sun Valley’s ski lifts sat still on Monday, hours after the resort decided to cease mountain operations nearly a month ahead of schedule to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
With local events, conferences and other public gathering being cancelled in the Wood River Valley due to the spread of coronavirus, hotels are beginning to feel the brunt of cancellations.
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Sun Valley will shut down mountain operations on Monday, March 16, after the coronavirus outbreak reached Blaine County on Saturday, the resort announced Sunday afternoon. The decision is a change of course for the resort, which as recently as Saturday expected to stay open through Easter.
Sun Valley Resort's Bald Mountain will stay open through Easter, April 12, but several hallmark year-end events will be cancelled before then, the resort announced Thursday.
The Sun Valley Film Festival has been cancelled amid health concerns related to the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).
The Sun Valley Film Festival has been cancelled amid health concerns related to the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Anew Cold Springs chairlift is scheduled to be built this summer and be ready to run by the start of next ski season, opening up an additional 4,200 linear feet of novice terrain on Lower Broadway run as well as advanced terrain in Turkey Bowl and in two chutes dropping into the Cold Springs gully.
When the snow clears, the city of Sun Valley will enter its third year of construction in a four-year phased project funded by a bond passed by its residents in 2017.
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A three-day jury trial for a Bellevue man accused of trafficking methamphetamine is scheduled to conclude today.
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Elkhorn residents Richard and Marcia Morgan were stuck in Phnom Pen, Cambodia, on Monday after disembarking from the cruise ship Westerdam on Valentine’s Day.
Hotel occupancy in Ketchum and Sun Valley was up 3.2 percent last month compared with January 2019, according to the nonprofit agency Visit Sun Valley, and bookings rose 5 percent.
As nearly all members of the Sun Valley Fire Department looked on, Gina Storey affixed a bugle pin to her husband’s lapel.
Fifth-generation cellular technology—a controversial topic in the Wood River Valley as of late—will be discussed at the next Sun Valley City Council meeting on Thursday, March 5.
Ray Gadd, the former marketing coordinator for Visit Sun Valley, is now the organization’s marketing director.
The Sun Valley Marketing Alliance announced Sunday that Olin Glenne has decided to step down as chairman of the Visit Sun Valley board of directors.
The Sun Valley Tour de Force’s 2020 and 2021 road rallies will benefit The Hunger Coalition, the event’s organizer, Intrepid Events, announced on Tuesday.
Sun Valley Mayor Peter Hendricks, Councilwoman Michelle Griffith and Councilwoman Jane Conard were each sworn into office at the latest City Council meeting on Jan. 2.
Spring: Sun Valley Fire Department joins forces with Ketchum Rural
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Bundled in warm parkas, thousands of people made their way to Sun Valley Village on Tuesday night for the resort’s annual Christmas Eve Celebration.
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Name that ski town: It’s a little high-end, a little hard to reach, a little stubborn in its own way and long skied by locals and devotees lured to first tracks on the hill and empty mazes at the lifts.
In 1937, a group of Austrian ski instructors held the first Torchlight Parade in Sun Valley. The tradition has been taken up by many other resorts, including Vail, Jackson Hole, Squaw Valley and Taos.
Dollar Mountain will get in on the 2019-20 ski season this Friday, just in time for a festive weekend at Sun Valley Resort.
Hosted by Friends of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center, a two-hour long presentation will introduce basic concepts about snow, avalanches and traveling safely in and near avalanche terrain. Scheduled to take place Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Sun Valley Community School, the presentation …
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Joe Hilber wrapped up his shift at midnight Thanksgiving morning, and got to sleep an hour later. Call it a nap: With a 4:45 a.m. alarm, he had plans to be at the base of Bald Mountain by 5:30 a.m., three and a half hours before the first chairlift of Sun Valley’s 84th season.
A project is underway this week to replace a fish ladder on Elkhorn Creek in Lane Ranch subdivision so trout can migrate from the Big Wood River to tributary habitat.
The Sun Valley Music Festival—formerly the Sun Valley Summer Symphony—announced this week that it will be reprising its winter season this February.
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Sun Valley’s snow guns haven’t gotten much help from the skies as they prep Bald Mountain for its Thanksgiving opening next week. October snowfall gave way to a bluebird November in the mountains of central Idaho—but things might change just in time for the season’s first turns.
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Citing safety, Sun Valley is tightening down on uphill hiking for the 2019-20 ski season, the resort announced Monday.
Numerous reports of unusually assertive coyotes in Elkhorn have prompted the Sun Valley Police Department to take action to dissuade the animals from hanging out in the area, Police Chief Mike Crawford said Thursday.
A warm welcome was given at Thursday’s Sun Valley City Council meeting to the city’s new assistant city planner, Maya Lewis, who was hired last month. At age 21, she’s the youngest city staff member in history.
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Sun Valley Resort took second in SKI magazine’s 2020 Reader Resort Survey, trailing only Aspen in the publication’s annual ranking of Western destinations released last Wednesday.
The tourism marketing organization Visit Sun Valley will hold its biannual community meeting at The Community Library in Ketchum on Wednesday, Nov. 13.
Sun Valley Resort took second in SKI Magazine’s 2020 Reader Resort Survey, trailing only Aspen in the publication’s annual ranking of Western resorts released Wednesday.
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A pile of timber lies near Reinheimer Ranch south of Ketchum, the result of an ongoing tree-clearing project on Bald Mountain coordinated by Sun Valley Resort, the U.S. Forest Service and the Idaho Bureau of Land Management. The project—part of the nationwide Healthy Forest Initiative—is int…
The issue of suicide is getting more attention in the Wood River Valley.
With the filing period for candidates having closed Friday, Ketchum City Council members Jim Slanetz and Michael David face challenges from former city Parks and Recreation Director Jennifer Smith and frequent local candidate Mickey Garcia. In Sun Valley, Mayor Peter Hendricks and City Counc…
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