Idahoâs COVID-19 case counts, hospitalizations keep improving, but 9 deaths are added
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Coronavirus Disease 2019
and last updated 2021-02-13 00:26:16-05
Idahoâs health districts and the Department of Health and Welfare reported just 233 new confirmed coronavirus cases Friday, continuing a weeks-long decline. With 111 new probable cases, the combined total came in at 344.
Hospitalizations of people with COVID-19 are markedly lower than numbers from the past few months, January included, when Idahoâs recovery took hold. Approximately 180 people were hospitalized across the state with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 on Wednesday, the most recent day that data was available from the Department of Health and Welfare. About 45 of those patients were in ICU units the same day, according to the state health departmentâs website.
After 34 years, two DeLamar Mine workers retire By: IBR Staff February 10, 2021 Comments Off on After 34 years, two DeLamar Mine workers retire
Boyd Walker (right) and Alexis Stanford
Two workers from Integra Resources’ DeLamar Mine, each with decades of experiences under their belts, are about to enjoy a new experience retirement. Boyd Walker and Alexis Stanford began their careers in mining at DeLamar in Owyhee County in 1987. The pair are set to retire after long and colorful careers that spanned 34 years each at the DeLamar mine. The mine is currently being advanced towards potential future re-development by Integra Resources after it went into care and maintenance in the late 1990s.
What Winter Was Like the Year You Were Born
By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News
On 2/6/21 at 9:00 AM EST
The United States has seen a wide range of winters over the past century everything from warm, mild years where folks could stroll leisurely through parks in February, to turbulent, frigid seasons where people had to hunker down inside. There were years where blizzards swept in unannounced, covering huge swaths of the country in blankets of snow, while other years brought hurricane-force winds to cities and towns across the nation.
The Midwest region is particularly susceptible to cold winters, especially in states like Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Michigan. In these places, residents lie in the path of both the low-pressure systems that originate in Alberta and travel southward (sometimes called Canadian clippers ) and the shortwave low-pressure systems that come from the southwest, traveling northeast toward the Great Lakes region (also cal
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In 2017, an Idaho couple embarked on a hunt-of-a-lifetime, resulting in the harvest of a bighorn sheep in the canyonlands of Owyhee County. Susan Willmorth was guided by her husband, Joe Willmorth, after being the lucky hunter to draw the only bighorn sheep hunt tag allotted for Unit 40 – a tag 39 others applied for and didn’t win.
While Susan was successful in her quest for a bighorn sheep, one ram was apparently not enough for the couple. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) reported that Susan’s ram was harvested in late September; however, the couple returned to the remote area several days later because a bighorn ram known as the “old man” still roaming about – the ram they had set their sights on even after Susan harvested a different one.