The Wapiti Fire in Custer ... to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Idahoans across the state have watched as the area around Stanley — one of Idaho’s most iconic small towns ...

A new bill advancing through the Idaho statehouse would give the state authority to fight wildfires on federal lands without waiting for permission from the Bureau of Land Management, a response ...

Firefighters work along Idaho Highway 21 west of Stanley to fight the Wapiti Fire on Aug. 26, 2024. (Courtesy of U.S. Forest Service/Rocky Mountain Complex Incident Management Team 1) The Idaho ...

The Wapiti Fire, Idaho's largest of 2024, burned for more than three months and scorched nearly 130,000 acres. The blaze, sparked by lightning in late July, burned mostly on federal lands around ...