Summer forgot its season on Sunday, dropping a coat of snow on the high summits around the Wood River Valley, including on 11,602-foot Glassford Peak in the Boulder Mountains, seen here looking north from Ketchum. Today, Sept. 22, marks the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere—traditi…

The year 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women’s suffrage. Thanks to advocacy such as Abigail Scott Duniway’s work in Hailey during the late 1800s, Idaho was the fourth state to give women the right to vote.

This Saturday Hailey’s Roberta McKercher Park hosts the fourth annual National Hispanic Latin@X Festival from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Hispanic Heritage Month runs Sept. 15 through Oct. 15.

Hailey Mayor Martha Burke proclaimed September as “Hispanic Heritage Month” on Monday evening in recognition of Blaine County’s nearly 6,000 residents of Hispanic descent and their contributions to the city of Hailey.

Tomorrow, Saturday, marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which killed 2,977 victims, injured thousands more, and scarred millions across the United States. In the spirit of looking back, here are the front pages the Idaho Mountain Express ran immediately after the catastrophe. The…

Ketchum and Sun Valley once again celebrated the Wood River Valley’s indigenous history on Saturday, Sept. 4, by inviting members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to ride in the Wagon Days parade.

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Blaine County Republican Women “Basket Brigade” showed their support for first responders this week by packing and delivering more than 300 goodie bags to every police and fire department across the county.

The book Alan Pesky set out to write was not the one he finished. What started as a life-spanning memoir ended up focusing on the death of his son, a contemplation on loss and learning. 

Around 50 entries made up Ketchum’s annual Wagon Days parade on Saturday, Sept. 4, anchored by the star of the show: The Lewis Ore Wagons, better known as “The Big Hitch.” The City of Ketchum announced the winners of the parade soon after it ended, honoring 17 entrants across a slew of categ…

Katie Lewis of Ketchum and Father Stephen Barber of La Jolla, California, get a slice of history Wednesday as they look over the Big Hitch, Ketchum’s authentic string of six wooden ore wagons from the late 1800s, outside the Ore Wagon Museum in downtown Ketchum. The Big Hitch and dozens of o…

A self-guided project to address months of heavy traffic and littering in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area will begin on Sunday, Sept. 12, with volunteers in high demand.

The Alliance of Idaho, a Bellevue-based nonprofit organization that works to protect the rights of immigrants and their families, has hired a new executive director.

Due to COVID risk, The Papoose Club will not be flipping pancakes as usual this Wagon Days at the Ketchum Town Square, but the nonprofit will have a presence—and announce new giving options.

Wildlife photographer John Boydston captured this red-tailed hawk scanning Bald Mountain for a tasty morsel on Sunday. The bird is likely a juvenile light Western morph of the species, according to local bird expert and painter Poo Wright-Pulliam. As the largest hawks in North America, red-t…

In August 1937, a group of 25 men and women disembarked a Union Pacific train in Shoshone and traveled north in a “powerful mountain bus” across sage covered desert and through the Wood River Valley, over Galena Summit and into the Sawtooth Basin.

Blaine County public schools rang in the 2021-22 academic year on Monday, bringing all students back to classrooms at once for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic broke the rhythms of in-person education some 18 months ago. This year, kids return full-time—to full classes—with COVID-1…

The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has awarded a $500,000 grant to Camp Rainbow Gold to help the nonprofit serve children who have been diagnosed with cancer, as well as their families.

Friends, family and fellow skiers gathered atop Bald Mountain on Aug. 8 to pay tribute to Ketchum’s Gretchen Wick Palmer, who died in May at 61 following a two-year battle with glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain tumor. Around 100 people joined her immediate family around Lookout in her…

With Bald Mountain framed neatly in the distance, about 200 women gathered under the tent at Trail Creek Cabin last Wednesday to honor local nonprofits and the role they played in the pandemic response.

Last year, Jen Smith started the Walk & Wine event at Sawtooth Botanical Garden as a way for people to safely gather during the pandemic.

For the third time in four years, the Idaho Mountain Express has been named the top newspaper in its class by one of the nation’s top industry groups.

The Sun Valley Tour de Force brought scores of sportscars to Ketchum over the weekend for an automotive showcase, followed by a full-throttle flight up state Highway 75 near Phantom Hill. This Porsche 911 GT3 clocked a clean run, but all the supercars were left looking up at a classic: A 196…

Shoppers at various markets across the valley—from Kraay’s Market and Garden in Bellevue to NourishMe in Ketchum—may have noticed some missing stickers in the dairy aisle recently.