Stories retold in 2026 from the newspapers that reported them, with quotations and links to the original pages.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
At a 2024 landowners' meeting a tribal rancher gave Bannock Creek its Bannock and Shoshone names, among them Pasakwa Huude, part of a wider effort on the reservation to bring Native place names back into use.
Shoshone-Bannock Fish & Wildlife crews built 31 imitation beaver dams on West Fork Bannock Creek and let two beavers go there in the fall of 2019, and by 2020 the creek was carrying more trout.
Ken Estep grew up on his family's Arbon farm, served fifteen years as a Power County commissioner and chaired the regional health board until his death in 2021.
Benedicta Wrensted photographed Pocatello and Fort Hall, while her brother Peter, a police chief and forest officer, took up land near Crystal, where his family farmed for decades.
Walter Fredrich took up land at the head of Bull Canyon in 1913 and married the Arbon schoolteacher Rachel Fryer in 1918, and the ranch they began was named an Idaho Century Ranch in 2020.
Two men were killed at an Arbon Valley trailer park in May 1986, and years later Sheriff Jim Jeffries told how a wanted poster he printed in Spanish and English turned up the witness who closed a labor camp killing.
In 2019 the *Idaho State Journal* told how Jacob Andersen of Arbon and a boyhood friend from American Falls built the software firm Crossfuze, sold control of it, and how Andersen kept running its technology from his home in the valley.
In August 2017 a human-caused range fire jumped the Arbon Valley Highway, burned about 53,000 acres at the north end of the valley and sent the people of Pauline from their homes, though no house was lost.
A Buist homesteader went east as a missionary in 1915, baptized a fifteen-year-old in Arkansas, came back to marry her on Christmas Day 1921, and in time her brother came north to farm at Arbon as well.
Joe G. Arbon, a grandson of the settler the valley was named for, died at 92 in January 2000, a month past his seventieth anniversary with Edna, the Arbon schoolteacher he wed in 1929 and farmed beside until 1974.
On June 25, 1996, riders from national Olympic teams raced 60 miles from Pocatello to Arbon Valley in the eighth stage of the PowerBar International Women's Challenge, the last big women's race before the Atlanta Games.
From a 1994 plan to seed the clouds to a crop rescued by May rain in 2020, the farm press followed Arbon Valley's dryland wheat growers through good years and bad.
In 1989 Idaho's governor praised Arbon Valley's farmers and deer hunters for settling their quarrel, and over the next decade the valley's ranchers found themselves in the West's wider argument over mountain lions.
From the Mosho fire of 1988 to the Power Line fire of 2016, range fires kept burning in and around Arbon Valley, and the farmers kept turning out to fight them.
A 1982 quarrel between Power County and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over taxes on a 6,742-acre Arbon Valley farm, which had left the Arbon school's future in doubt, ended that December in a compromise under which the church would pay.
In August 1982 Arbon Valley growers cut a sound dryland wheat crop they expected to sell at a loss, the latest turn in three decades of late harvests, drought and rain-soaked fields.
In August 1982 a carload of young people and a pickup collided head-on on Arbon Valley Road, killing Harley Hatch, 13, of May, and leaving Brett Lusk, 13, of Arbon Valley, to die of his injuries nine days later.
Mabellene McKie, 46, of Arbon Valley was killed late on June 5, 1982, when the car carrying her and her husband went off a Fort Hall road, struck a pole and ended in a canal.
After a January of drifts, deep cold, a stalled school bus and a flood warning, the *Journal* went out to Arbon Valley in February 1982 to see how its farm and ranch families were getting by.
In early 1981 Idaho auctioned school endowment farmland in Arbon Valley, and 120 acres near Pauline and a full section near Crystal went for far more than the appraisers had expected.
A 1981 golden-wedding notice traced the lives of Willard Andersen, a dry-farm boy who became Arbon's bishop, and Mamie Haney, who came west from South Carolina.
In June 1980 the Journal profiled Sherm Swim, the Arbon Valley cattleman who took the 1979 old-timers' roping in Pocatello, and the next March it pictured him and his son Kirk with a calf mauled by coyotes.
Half an hour out of Idaho Falls in a spring snowstorm, a Huntington Beach pilot was killed when his Cessna struck a field on a Johnson farm in Arbon Valley on April 6, 1980.
In 1979 the 20-pupil Arbon school district persuaded the State Board of Education to let it keep a teacher who lacked his degree, one chapter in a decade of merger talk, refusals and cost-sharing for a very small district.
In November 1979 a six-member crew from the Idaho Museum of Natural History at Idaho State University began calling on Arbon Valley families for what its curator of archaeology said was the valley's first systematic survey of historic places.
On a July evening in 1978 a mother racing for the hospital ran out of time, and Idaho State Police trooper Brad Flores delivered her daughter in the back of a station wagon in the Arbon Valley area.
In the spring of 1978 Arbon ranchers went from place to place roping and branding close to 1,200 calves, and the *Journal* came out to photograph their day at Sod Williams's ranch.
On May 28, 1978, the senior men in a Pocatello bicycle race rode 60 miles over Crystal Summit to Arbon Valley and back, and Tom Webb of Salt Lake City was fastest.
In May 1978 a Bannock Creek rancher and a young Shoshone-Bannock stockman from the same creek each told a federal judge he might have to sell cattle if the forest grazing case went against his side.
Wally Hardy, 40, of Bannock Creek was killed on Sunday, March 26, 1978, when the pickup he was riding in rolled three times on Arbon Road some eight miles north of the Arbon store.