Stories from Friday, March 18, 2016

People from Mountain Home and communities across southern Idaho gathered on Saturday during a yearly event aimed at promoting big game habitat and restoration. More than 350 people packed into the Mountain Home Elks Lodge that evening during the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Banquet...

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News A joint project headed by the Mountain Home Economic Development Office and DIG-IT committee continued to move forward on Thursday through a project aimed at beautifying the unsightly and blighted Main Street underpass...

With many Idaho waters open to fishing year round, anglers can make the most of the year by focusing on times when fishing is at its best for certain waters, according to the Idaho Fish and Game Department. For those who aren't shy about braving unpredictable weather in late winter and early spring, there are many places to catch fish and a surprising variety of them, said Roger Phillips, a fish and game spokesman...

The westbound interstate near Mountain Home reopened Friday morning following a motor home fire that killed a Nampa man. The blaze was reported around 8:45 that morning near milepost 96 with westbound traffic rerouted off Exit 99 east of Mountain Home as crews tackled the blaze.

Lester C. McAnulty, age 101.86 of Bliss, Idaho, passed away March 17, 2016, at Stonebridge Assisted Living in Wendell, Idaho, after a good long life. Graveside services will be held at Glenn Rest Cemetery in Glenns Ferry, Idaho, on Saturday, March 26, 2016, at 11 a.m.