Camas County, ID

FAIRFIELD — The Camas County Cemetery District will experience a sizeable raise in revenue over the next two years following voters’ approval of a temporary levy during the May election. According to the ballot language, the measure raised the district’s levy rate from $2.71 per $100,000 of assessed property value...

Lori Vallow Daybell has been committed to a mental health facility for treatment, and her husband has pleaded not guilty to killing her children. At one of Camas County's cemeteries the only clue to where people are buried is a piece of paper with hand-drawn lines. Officials are trying to fix years of problems there, but so far only have a temporary source of money.

FAIRFIELD, Idaho (KLIX)-An early morning crash in Camas County Tuesday killed two Oregon men and injured three other people. According to Idaho State Police Craig Caldwell, 52, had been driving a Chevrolet Astro van headed east at around 1 a.m. when he crossed the center line and hit a Dodge Ram pickup, driven by Lancey Robbins, 22, of Melba. Robbins was flown to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, the passenger in the Ram, Andrew Leon, 23, of Meridian, was taken by ambulance to North Canyon Medical Center in Gooding. A third passenger in the Astro van, Frank Brunetto, 53, of Oregon City, was flown to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. Caldwell and Borchers both perished at the scene.

FAIRFIELD — Voters overwhelming approved a temporary override levy for the Camas County Cemetery District in Tuesday's election. According to unofficial results, about 83.2% of the 131 people who participated in the election voted in favor of the levy. About 16.8% voted against the levy. The measure will increase the...

The Carey High School boys and girls track and field varsity teams led the 2021 Sawtooth All-Conference Track and Field nominations with seven athletes. Carey head coach James Morey was named Coach of the Year on the boys side. There were five Panther males and two females named to the...

In front of their home crowd, the Carey Panthers put on a remarkable display of running, throwing and leaping during the Sawtooth Conference Track and Field Championships at Carey High School on Thursday, May 6. Both the Carey boys and girls came away with overall victories as the boys finished...

Camas County High School will be graduating its class of 2021 at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 8 at Camas County High School in Fairfield. In all, Camas will be graduating nine seniors. Senior Chloe Ballard is this year’s valedictorian. This year’s salutatorian has yet to be chosen. Along with Ballard, the rest of Camas County’s graduating class is Emilie Galvin, Lexie Jones, Ryann Martin, Samantha McFadyen, Cody Moore, Marcus Quinonez, Alexis Robles and Logan Schofield.

A nonprofit group has filed a lawsuit in 5th District Court on Friday over the Camas County’s approval last month of a proposed private airport near Fairfield that would bring an 8,500-foot runway to the rural agricultural area. Michael Pogue, attorney for plaintiff Preserve Camas Prairie Inc., said the county’s...

Just over two weeks removed from a truck crash on I-84 that resulted in a truck left hanging over a gorge, first responders with Magic Valley Paramedics Special Operations Rescue Team (SORT) reflect on the rescue effort. Watch the full interview on KMVT Sunday, 4/4 at 10pm. The gallery features...

FAIRFIELD, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — A large private airport could be coming to Camas County after months of work and applications. “Ix-Nay Investment Trust wants to put in a private airstrip for their guests and for themselves, to bring their larger aircraft in than Hailey, or Friedman Memorial would hold,” said the Planning and Zoning Administrator Dwight Butlin.

Thank you for the Ghost Towns of Camas County article (Curious Mind 3/9). However I wish the writer would have done more research prior to writing. The settlers did not use the camas bulbs for food, the Bannock and Shoshoni Tribes used the bulb as a sustaining food source. The settlers in the area did their best to destroy the plant to rid the area of the Natives, hence the Bannock War. Hill City was home to much more than grain elevators and a train turn around. This town was the largest sheep shipping hob in the West for many years. The railroad was originally engineered to go through Soldier, BUT an unscrupulous land owner bribed the railroad to move the line to it's present position. That area at the time was a swampy, not so conducive to railroad building, area. Soldier would have been much easier to build through. Note: My family purchased property in the Hill City area in 1900 and owns that property to this day.

The Camas County commissioners cleared the way for a large private airport near Fairfield on Monday, voting unanimously to approve an application by Ix-Nay Investment Trust for a land-use map change and a rezone of 300 acres north of U.S. Highway 20 to accommodate its construction. In October, the county...

A: “Camas County has one incorporated city: Fairfield, population 450 or so. Fairfield, located on Highway 20 between the Boise and Sun Valley area metroplexes, is the county seat and the county’s commercial center,” said Marshall Ralph, a commissioner from the ghost town of Soldier and editor of The Weekly Beaver. “Fairfield hosts the gas station, the Valley Service farm store, the county’s only post office and library, the grocery store, and the Camas County School.”

NAMPA — The black-and-white plaque rested on the first row of the bleachers in a Nampa High gym that had mostly cleared out. Cut in the shape of Idaho, it stood out against the red stands, waiting for someone to pick it up. “We’re definitely going to get it engraved,”...

Burley, Filer and Camas County all won their Thursday games at the state girls basketball tournament. Mountain Home, Valley, Lighthouse Christian and Carey lost, but still stay in the tournament while Murtaugh and Richfield have been eliminated. 4A State Tournament, Mountain View High School, Meridian. Burley 57, Middleton 48. Burley,...

The district wrestling championships are in the books, with various athletes preparing for the state championships. This is the live VOD recording of the KMVT News at 10 p.m. The Carey senior had two games where she scored 30 or more points. Sports. Updated: Feb. 21, 2021 at 9:47 AM...

SHOSHONE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — It was a low-scoring affair, dominated by defense. But the Mushers of Camas County pulled out the win Thursday night over Richfield, 39-33, to secure the No. 2 seed from District IV to the 1A DII Girls Basketball State Tournament. The occasion marks the Mushers’ second...