Minidoka National Historic Site

National Park sites in southern Idaho drew in hundreds of thousands of visitors last year, despite a 43-day partial government shutdown and staff shortages.

From 1942 to 1945, 13,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned by the U.S. government at the Minidoka concentration camp outside of Jerome, Idaho. Today, a renovation project seeks to preserve the site’s lived history.

A project aimed at adding 230 wind turbines near the Minidoka National Historical site has been put on hold indefinitely.

The Lava Ridge Wind Project, a proposed large-scale wind farm in southern Idaho, faces yet another challenge as the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation withdraws from the process.

The Idaho Center for the Book sat down to talk about a book about World War II and Japanese Americans.

The Bureau of Land Management could release a final report on the Lava Ridge Wind Project in February.

People gather at the Minidoka National Historic Site to reflect on the incarceration of 13,000 Japanese Americans in southern Idaho during World War II .

The wind project is exactly the type the Biden Administration says is needed to transition the country’s energy supply away from fossil fuels. But locals are opposed.

The report comes in the middle of the federal agency’s timeline of assessing the proposal from energy company Magic Valley Energy, a subsidiary of LS Power, to build up to 400 turbines on federal land northeast of Twin Falls.

The history of Japanese internment in the United States during WWII and the Minidoka prison camp in Idaho.