If you love skiing or snowboarding but don't like to battle the crowds of people, you can be the big man, or woman, on the mountain and own it out right for the day. You just have to find about 100 people you wouldn't mind spending a day with.
UPDATE: The Phillips Fire north of Fairfield is closer to full control as firefighters worked to contain the blaze that threatened homes and a ski lodge in the area.
Fire crews are battling a blaze on the Sawtooth National Forest eight miles north of Fairfield. According to the U.S. Forest Service, the Phillips Fire was reported on August 5, in the Free Gold Creek drainage.
Camp Rainbow Gold, an organization that offers camps and other support services for kids with cancer, has announced an agreement to buy a south-central Idaho resort property for $1.3 million.
A fire that started Tuesday afternoon near Fairfield has burned a couple of hundred acres, according to fire officials, but the exact acreage is still to be determined.