A Hayden, Idaho businessman has filed to run as a write-in candidate against Idaho Rep. Phil Hart, saying Hart's tax woes prompted him to jump into the race against a fellow conservative.

Another hot day with temperatures in the lower 90s is being forecast by the National Weather Service before temperatures ease back to the lower 80s.

BOISE – An Idaho judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked ConocoPhillips from hauling four giant loads of oil refinery equipment over U.S. Highway 12 from the Port of Lewiston to Montana. Judge John Bradbury of Idaho’s 2nd District issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Idaho Transportation Department from issuing permits for the loads, which are so wide they would take up both lanes of the two-lane highway. A motion for a preliminary injunction will be heard on Friday at 9 a.m. in Grangeville.

George Earle was looking for work. The 30-year-old English immigrant had recently arrived in Spokane by foot from Alberta, following the railroad tracks into a new country. An ex-solider and ranch hand, he was a veteran of both South Africa’s Boer War and the grinding physical labor of daily farm life.

An Idaho judge today temporarily blocked ConocoPhillips from hauling four giant loads of oil refinery equipment over U.S. Highway 12 from the Port of Lewiston to Montana.

Authorities say more than 200 guns have been stolen from a Kootenai County woman’s home.

Hot, dry weather is expected across the Inland Northwest again today before a cool down starts on Wednesday and continues into the weekend, forecasters said.

BOISE – Residents opposed to giant truck shipments of oil equipment through Idaho’s scenic Clearwater/Lochsa river canyon filed suit Monday, just a day before Idaho planned to issue permits for the first four loads. Meanwhile, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter announced that he’ll impose a new requirement for a $10 million bond from the two oil companies that want to move the massive equipment, and both agreed to put up the bonds. Without the new bonding requirement, they would have only been required to pay state fees of $1,000 per load for the oversize loads.

Every soot-smudged wildland firefighter knows the name pulaski – even if they don’t know the man Pulaski. That’s because Ed Pulaski cemented his legacy when he welded the head of a mattock (or grubbing hoe) onto an axe head.

Follow a two-mile trail up Placer Creek, and you come to the Pulaski Tunnel – a legendary part of the 1910 Fire story. It was here that Big Ed Pulaski ordered 45 firefighters into a mine shaft on the night of Aug. 20, and told them to lie face down.

Organizers of a relay run from Spokane to Sandpoint say there was little they could have done prevent an accident that claimed the life of a Greenacres woman over the weekend.

Residents opposed to giant truck shipments of oil equipment through Idaho's scenic Clearwater/Lochsa river canyon filed suit Monday to block the shipments, just a day before Idaho planned to issue permits for the first four loads.

High temperatures in the lower and middle 90s are going to put the sizzle back in summer today and Tuesday.

A powerboat operating on Lake Pend Oreille slammed into a rock embankment, killing one and injuring three, the Bonner County Sheriff’s Department said.

Last summer, 33,000 mountain bikers from all over the world rode the Route of the Hiawatha. This summer’s crowds are on track to break that record. The parking area at the East Portal will soon be doubled to handle the throngs.

Today, we can imagine the smoke – thick and suffocating. We can fathom the flames – causing mountains and towns to glow red at midnight. We can even imagine the heat, enough to peel paint off boxcars. Yet there's one thing the survivors said was impossible for anyone to imagine: The roar.

A draft plan for cleanup of a former Priest River landfill is open for public comment.

The Kootenai County sheriff wants the county to pay the legal expenses for the Sheriff’s Department in a lawsuit he wants to file against the county.

For three days in August 1910, the mining town of Wallace, Idaho, was at the epicenter of national news.

Map showing the burn area of the 1910 fires.