Stories from Thursday, June 15, 2017

Mountain Home Air Force Base continues to receive broad support from senior Air Force commanders, who advocate ongoing efforts to expand the installation's combat capabilities, local officials said following a series of meetings with these military leaders...

Moisture from the state's historically wet winter and springtime rain is expected to lessen the fire risk during the early summer months, the Bureau of Land Management announced as it presented its yearly Wildland Fire Outlook report. Produced at the National Interagency Fire Center, the report cautioned that range fires could grow larger than normal once vegetation and grasses dry out after receiving so much snow and rain...

With an abundant snowpack still existing in the central mountain region of the state, the Natural Resources Conservation Service predicts that river levels across Idaho will remain above average during the summer. In a report released June 7, the remaining high elevation snowpack above 8,000 feet remains more than twice the normal amounts for this time of year with similar totals reported in most basins across Idaho...