Boise High students evacuated to North Junior High on Friday after a bomb threat, though police safely cleared the school and another site on Chinden Boulevard without finding any device. In a separate case, police arrested an eighteen-year-old worker on four felony counts of injury to a child tied to alleged abuse of infants at New Horizon Academy.
Facing roughly nine thousand empty seats, the Boise School District is weighing facilities shifts that could move sixth graders into middle schools and ninth graders into high schools. In neighborhood news, a ruptured gas line briefly displaced Trail Wind Elementary students Wednesday, while Micron unveiled sixty-seven million dollars in Idaho community funding for transit, housing, and children's savings.
Drivers along State Street will see smoother commutes at Pierce Park Lane, where main paving is complete and traffic has moved to its permanent alignment. Meanwhile, health officials urge trail walkers to steer children and pets clear of poisonous death-cap mushrooms recently found along area Greenbelts.
Boise State athletics enjoyed a banner weekend, highlighted by football's dramatic 46-45 win over Texas State on Halloween for the program's 300th FBS victory. The women's soccer team also blanked Texas State 4-0 to clinch a spot in the Pac-12 Championship, while women's basketball opens its regular season at home against Bushnell.
The Treasure Valley can look forward to mild fall conditions this week, beginning with sunny afternoon highs in the upper fifties before reaching sixty degrees on Tuesday. Clear, pleasant weather will carry into the weekend, bringing sunny highs up to sixty-four on Sunday, although overnight temperatures will still dip into the thirties.