AAA-Idaho is asking drivers to help emergency workers at the roadside stay safe by slowing down when they approach a stationary emergency vehi… Read more
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Freidman Memorial Airport will close from April 18 to May 17 in the spring to facilitate a major $8.6 million rehabilitation project that will… Read more
A freshly paved Bald Mountain Road opened to traffic last week, guiding cars down a new path toward Warm Springs. Eventually, the street will … Read more
Ketchum city leaders finalized a $687,000 contract for services with the Mountain Rides Transportation Authority on Monday. Read more
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Freidman Memorial Airport will close from April 18 to May 17 next spring to facilitate a major $8.6 million rehabilitation project that will r… Read more
Mountain Rides’ Valley Route has extended its morning northbound service to begin at 6 a.m. and continue every 30 minutes until 9 a.m., the or… Read more
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Mountain Rides Transportation Authority will seek a 26% increase in funding from its local partners starting next month, bringing city and cou… Read more
Sun Valley city leaders are hoping that a new downhill bike lane along the east side of Elkhorn Road from the top of the hill at Village Way t… Read more
Idaho Power Co. has granted $20,000 to Mountain Rides to help the transit organization underwrite its installation of battery electric bus cha… Read more
After four hours of public testimony and 10 minutes of deliberations, the Custer County commissioners voted 3-0 Wednesday to deny an appeal of… Read more
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Mountain Rides will officially put into service four new battery-electric buses on Monday, making it the first transit authority in Idaho to b… Read more
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The Custer County commissioners will hear an appeal on Aug. 25 of Michael and Amanda Boren’s conditional use permit designating a pasture as a… Read more
Citing a transition to higher financial ground, the Friedman Memorial Airport Authority Board this month approved a budget of $25,302,710 for … Read more
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Friedman Memorial Airport saw a 2% increase in passenger boardings last month from July 2019, according to unofficial enplanement data from Ai… Read more
After ticking up about twenty cents per gallon in the last two weeks, gas prices in the Wood River Valley have now surpassed the $4 mark. Read more
The city of Ketchum is moving forward with plans to study traffic patterns in a corridor that includes Main Street and Warm Springs Road to ev… Read more
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Trail Creek Road is once again open to traffic in both directions, Blaine County announced midday Wednesday. Read more
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A rockslide closed the road over Trail Creek Summit in both directions on Monday afternoon, the Blaine County Sheriff’s Office reported around… Read more
The Custer County Board of Commissioners will hear on Aug. 25 an appeal of Michael and Amanda Boren’s conditional use permit for an airport at… Read more
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Gas prices in Idaho have ticked up almost a quarter this month and over 30 cents since June, according to the American Automobile Association. Read more
The city of Ketchum’s Streets Department is scheduled to repair a pair of bridges this week. Read more
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Mountain Rides has extended its fare-free pilot bus route to Twin Falls through April 2022, the organization announced last week. Read more
As the world’s most famous billionaires and business tycoons descended upon Sun Valley on Tuesday for the 38th annual Allen & Company conf… Read more
The Idaho Transportation Department is reviewing input on conceptual design options to improve state Highway 75 from a point south of Elkhorn … Read more
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A series of recent, serious accidents south of Bellevue—including three fatalities on state Highway 75 in the past two weeks—have reignited co… Read more
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A group of property owners are challenging a ruling to allow a private airstrip in the Sawtooth Valley about 15 miles south of Stanley.
Going into the busy Fourth of July weekend, Idaho State Police is advocating that motorists drive at safe speeds and do not drive while impaired.
Construction of a “high-intensity activated crosswalk”—or HAWK—system at the intersection of Fourth Street and Main Street in Ketchum is near completion. The new crosswalk system, as well as a new “pedestrian scramble” crosswalk system at the intersection of Sun Valley Road and Main Street, …
The Idaho Transportation Department will begin its summer repaving project on Main Street in Hailey starting tonight, July 1.
The Idaho Transportation Department is seeking input on conceptual design options to improve state Highway 75 from Elkhorn Road, south of Ketchum, north to River Street, on the south end of town, via an online discussion at itdprojects.org/idaho-75-elkhorn-road. The online discussion will be…
United Airlines will continue to operate daily nonstop flights between Sun Valley and Denver this fall, the Fly Sun Valley Alliance and Friedman Memorial Airport announced Monday.
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Friedman Memorial Airport saw more demand for commercial bookings last month than it did in May 2019, according to unofficial enplanement data presented by airport Manager Chris Pomeroy on Tuesday.
Two young passengers in a car died Sunday after it crashed on U.S. Highway 26 south of Carey on Sunday night.
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Blaine County deemed its COVID-19 transmission risk “moderate” once again on its risk assessment dashboard. The positive test rate for the county rose slightly from last week to 0.69%, with 3.1 average new cases per hypothetical 100,000 residents reported. See tomorrow’s paper for more infor…
The Idaho Transportation Department’s Office of Highway Safety (OHS) has once again acknowledged Memorial Day weekend as the beginning of what they call the “100 Deadliest Days”—a time between Memorial Day and Labor Day that typically sees a dramatic increase in fatal car crashes across the …
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The Blaine County commissioners voted to lift the countywide mask requirement today. Meanwhile, the Bellevue City Council voted in the opposite direction. Keep reading for more on those stories, plus other news from Tuesday, May 25.
The unofficial kickoff to the summer travel season is just around the corner, but with surging demand for fuel, rental cars, airfare and hotel rooms, Memorial Day travelers should plan on paying more for the privilege, AAA reports.
As Idaho drivers return to the road in large numbers, gas prices continue to climb across the state, with some Wood River Valley stations charging more than $4 a gallon for premium.
The Custer County Planning and Zoning Commission voted May 6 to issue a conditional-use permit for a private airstrip south of Stanley.
The Hailey City Council on Monday approved a number of safety-related changes to Main Street, including a four-block restriping plan to narrow lanes and widen crosswalks.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported 187 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 statewide on Friday--the second straight day under 200 cases--raising the total to 188,788. However, the state reported eight COVID-19-related deaths today. The death toll is 2,061.
Friedman Memorial Airport reached a major milestone in its comeback from COVID-19 in April, reporting more demand for commercial bookings last month than before the pandemic in of April 2019.
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A nonprofit group has filed a lawsuit in 5th District Court on Friday over the Camas County’s approval last month of a proposed private airport near Fairfield that would bring an 8,500-foot runway to the rural agricultural area.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported 368 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 statewide over the weekend, raising the total to 188,024. Of those, an estimated 107,765 have recovered.
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Delta, United and Alaska airlines will offer daily nonstop flights between Sun Valley and five major U.S. cities this summer—Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Salt Lake City.
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Monday a contract to do some $3 million in work on roads and paths in the city this summer.
The cities of Ketchum and Sun Valley are set to take ownership of a well-traveled road connecting the two communities after the Idaho Transportation Board voted to relinquish and transfer the so-called “Idaho Highway 75 Spur”—locally named Sun Valley Road.
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The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported 538 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 statewide over the weekend, raising the total to 183,691. Of those, an estimated 103,228 have recovered.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported 312 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 statewide today, raising the total to 183,153. Of those, an estimated 102,697 have recovered.
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After years of discussing a remote air-traffic control solution, Friedman Memorial Airport Authority board members agreed Tuesday that the project should be moved to the front burner.
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The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported 655 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 statewide over the weekend, including 337 today, raising the total to 181,836. Of those, an estimated 101,798 have recovered.
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Mountain Rides’ fare-free pilot bus route to Twin Falls will run through the end of 2021, the organization announced on Friday after receiving a significant funding contribution from the St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation.
Idaho now ranks No. 10 in the country for most expensive gas, AAA announced last week.
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