Month: March 2023

Local News

No Dam Crossings Tuesday

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Lower Monumental Lock and Dam say they will be closing public dam crossings on Tuesday to perform maintenance. Normal crossing hours are once an hour, on the half-hour, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Public dam crossings are also available at Lower Granite Lock and […]

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Local News

Artwalk Registrations Announced in Moscow

In Moscow, registration for the 3rd Thursday Artwalk coming up on April 20 is now open, as are host and street vendor opportunities for the June 15th Artwalk Season Finale. Businesses are invited to complete host location registration through April 11 at 5 p.m. Host registration fees are $40 for businesses and $20 for non-profit […]

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Local News

Bank Robber Remains at Large

On Monday afternoon just after 4:30, a panic alarm at the Horizon Credit Union in Spokane Valley sounded, and an employee reported the credit union was robbed by a man who handed a teller a note saying she would be shot if she didn’t give him money. Deputies quickly arrived and set up a perimeter […]

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Local News

Vehicle Roll Over Crash

A vehicle hauling a trailer with another vehicle on it was involved in a roll over crash on Highway 95 at mile post 230.5. There were injuries but no additional details have yet been released. Numerous local emergency responders were called out. Nobody else was hurt.

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Idaho News

Man Jumps to His Death on I-84

Idaho State Police are investigating a death Sunday morning around 8:30 on eastbound Interstate 84, near milepost 56 in Ada County. Police say an SUV driven by a 23-year-old woman from Twin Falls, was eastbound, when a 25-year-old male passenger, also from Twin Falls, simply got out of the vehicle while it was in motion […]

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Idaho News State News

One Suspect Taken Into Custody / One Suspect Shot

A robbery suspect was taken into custody and another was fatally wounded Sunday in St. Regis, Montana. The Mineral County Sheriff’s Office, in coordination with the Sander’s County Sheriff’s Office, and the Montana Highway Patrol was part of an officer-involved shooting near the travel center that began with an armed robbery in Osburn, Idaho. Investigators […]

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Idaho News

Bird Comments Sought

Idaho Fish and Game is seeking public comments on statewide migratory game bird season proposals for the 2023-2024 season in the Panhandle and elsewhere in the state. The comment period comes after some hunters in Northern Idaho over the past year or so, have been dissatisfied with the season structure during the 2022-2023 season and […]

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Washington State News

Wire Fraud and Identity Theft Sending Washington Man to Prison

A man from Washington is headed to federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. 43 year old Ryan Tichy of Seattle, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison after prosecutors proved that from at least May 2018 through November 2020, Tichy executed a scheme to defraud, in which he obtained the means […]

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Idaho News

Winds Sicken Chickens

A recent study of chicken farms in the West found that high winds increased the prevalence in outdoor flocks, of a bacterial pathogen in poultry that is the largest single cause of foodborne illness in the U.S. Researchers found that about 26% of individual chickens had the pathogen at the “open environment” farms in the […]

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Idaho News

3 Idaho Farmers Settle Suit

According to federal prosecutors, three farmers in Eastern Idaho have paid a total of $500,000 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent Coronavirus Food Assistance Program applications. The settlement resolves allegations that the three knowingly and impermissibly included millions of pounds of potatoes on applications by two of them […]

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