Ketchum

Affordable housing has been a top concern among Wood River Valley communities during the pandemic. Now, the discussions about how to address the issue are continuing into campaign season.

A new collaboration has pulled together to help protect the reserve, bring NASA into more Idaho classrooms, use stem to teach the next generation of students and so much more.

Bluebird Village will have studios to three-bedroom apartments in an apartment complex on the lot of the soon-to-be-former city hall.

Ketchum is considering adding community housing to that list of local option tax expenses.

The City of Ketchum is launching a $10 million fundraising campaign to preserve a beloved nature area in town.

The cities of Ketchum and Hailey in the Wood River Valley passed ordinances earlier this summer allowing local workers to park recreational vehicles on private property. But the new policy aimed at increasing affordable living options is not gaining much traction.

A number of Idaho communities – particularly the resort communities of Ketchum and McCall – are struggling to find innovative and sustainable solutions to what has become a huge challenge: little-to-no inventory of affordable housing.

Ketchum city officials are looking to another mountain west ski resort community for ideas on solving the affordable housing crisis.

Ketchum city leaders have previously said they can’t regulate short-term rentals because of a 2017 Idaho state law, which only allows cities to crack down on services like AirBnB and VRBO if they affect public health or safety. But a pressing housing crisis has forced staff to take another look at the legislation, and now they think there might be a gray area.

For the first time, the Wood River Valley is in the most severe drought category of the U.S. Drought Monitor.