Police have arrested a man suspected of holding a woman at gunpoint in a Boise-area parking lot. The male suspect approached a vehicle at about 9:10 a.m. Tuesday in the 6800 block of Strawberry Glenn Road in Garden City, according to a Garden City Police Department news release. The man took out a handgun and […]
In our Reality Check stories, Idaho Statesman journalists seek to hold the powerful accountable and find answers to critical questions in our community. Read more. Story idea? Tips@idahostatesman.com. Tuesday’s primary election saw about 22% of registered voters show up to the polls in Ada County. That number was a little lower than the county elections […]
A Canyon County crash left one person dead and another hospitalized Tuesday morning. An 18-year-old Caldwell man was driving a minivan west on U.S. 20/26 at 3:15 a.m. when he crossed the center line and collided with a truck near Northside Boulevard, Idaho State Police said in a news release. Police said the minivan driver […]
At Thursday’s “repair cafe,” Marilyn Cosho earned the evening’s first “ding” of success — and a resulting round of applause — when repair volunteer Andy Huang uncovered the real problem with her slide viewer. Hopes weren’t high when he started tinkering with the item: She got it in Vienna, Austria, in the early ’70s (the […]
At Thursday’s “repair cafe,” Marilyn Cosho earned the evening’s first “ding” of success — and a resulting round of applause — when repair volunteer Andy Huang uncovered the real problem with her slide viewer. Hopes weren’t high when he started tinkering with the item: She got it in Vienna, Austria, in the early ‘70s (the […]
A power outage was affecting thousands of customers from East Boise to Idaho City Saturday morning after a goose flew into a power line shortly before 7:30 a.m. As of 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning, the outage was affecting 3,481 customers, according to Idaho Power’s online outage map. Maria Willacy, an Idaho Power media specialist, urged […]
Boise City Council Member Luci Willits was a junior in college when she had her first child. At the time, she and her husband couldn’t afford child care. Instead, they planned their class schedules so that one of them was always available to take care of the baby. Occasionally, in a pinch, Willits had to […]
Three years ago, the Idaho Legislature passed and Gov. Brad Little signed into law a bill that capped the amount of new property-tax dollars that local governments can take from new, taxable development. One Treasure Valley fire district says the law has contributed to the district falling so far behind in meeting the need for […]
An Eagle family says they’ve been discriminated against after being sued by their homeowners’ association over the businesses they run from home. The HOA has asked the court to stop the couple from operating their businesses at home and pay several thousand dollars in fines. The homeowners’ association for Two Rivers, an upscale neighborhood near […]
Law enforcement is still searching for suspects after the arrest of one man involved in a fight that broke out at a popular outdoor party spot southwest of Boise last weekend. Several witnesses told deputies that they saw a 25-year-old man get into “some kind of altercation with a woman” on Friday night at a […]
Many long-term residents of the Treasure Valley may remember what downtown Caldwell was like a few decades ago. In the ‘90s and early 2000s, the center of the city had a decaying core that offered jagged industrial edges, crime and emptiness. “Downtown Caldwell had been run down and had a poor reputation for a very […]