Stories from Thursday, January 26, 2017

Members of the Elmore County Search and Rescue Team were credited with helping a number of people whose vehicles were left stranded on Pine-Featherville Road on Sunday. Blowing snow on a flat stretch of the mountain roadway during the weekend created deep snowdrifts that trapped 10 vehicles and an unspecified number of drivers and passengers...

A Mountain Home man arrested in connection with a bank robbery in the Treasure Valley last October faces additional charges of robbing a second bank. Eric Weigle, 45, is accused of robbing a credit union on the 6700 block of Overland Road on Oct. 27 and is now charged with robbing a separate bank on the 900 block of Orchard Street earlier that month...

As plans to build a water pipeline from the Snake River to Mountain Home Air Force Base continue to move forward, officials at the base met with members of the community last week to outline the project. The project includes installing approximately 20 miles of underground water lines along with a pump station and water treatment plant that connects to the base...

Plans to create a storage yard specifically for construction cranes took a step forward last week after the county planning and zoning commission approved the project. During a meeting Jan. 18, the commission unanimously voted in favor of a permit submitted by Rocky Mountain Cranes to locate a contractor yard along North 18th Street in a section of agricultural land just north of the interstate...