A landslide took out a portion of Highway 95 in between Council and McCall in March. The road has been closed ever since, but the community has rallied to provide an alternative.

Prescribed burns began Friday on U.S. Forest Service land in North Idaho and are expected to continue through the spring.

The Banner Summit snowpack, which feeds the headwaters of the Middle Fork of the Salmon, is sitting at its 30-year average, ...