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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The 89-year-old president of the Mormon church has been hospitalized in Salt Lake City.

St Lukes opened a new hospital in Twin Falls on May of 2011. The hospital was built on a 40 acre lot on Poleline Road in Twin Falls.

BOISE, Idaho (KLIX) St. Luke's Health System says it will not allow anyone to carry a Samsung Galaxy 7 Note phone in its facilities.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — New federal data shows that Idaho Medicare patients are among the least likely to return to the hospital after being treated for certain ailments.

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Officials in two southern Idaho counties say two hunters were injured in separate accidental shootings. Ada County Sheriff's spokeswoman Andrea Dearden told the Idaho Statesman that the first hunter was in Elmore County on Sunday when he rested his rifle on his foot while he climbed into his truck...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The wife of a southern Idaho lawmaker who was injured in an explosion at their home has been released from a Salt Lake City hospital but is still undergoing treatment for burns. Amy Wood, the wife of Rep. Fred Wood, suffered second-degree burns on her arms and neck in the Sept...

(KLIX)- A Wendell man was sent to the hospital after being hit by a minivan. Idaho State Police say 36 year old Roney Welker was crossing main street about 200 feet away from a marked cross walk when he was hit Tuesday afternoon. Police say 24 year old Jesseca Dodge was the driver of the minivan, and that the setting sun may have played a part in the crash...

(KLIX)-Two people were killed in a car crash yesterday afternoon on I-84 near Bliss. Idaho State Police say it happened just before 4pm at the Biss rest stop area. Police say a Mazda sedan was parked on the median side partially in the lane of travel when a small Ford car rear ended it...

(KLIX) Two people were sent to the hospital after a single car accident on I-84 near Bliss. Idaho State Police say 68 year old Patricia Linford of California was headed east. Police say they are not sure why she drifted off the left side of the road and over corrected...

(KLIX)- St. Luke’s Magic Valley took action after Tuesday’s emergency order from the city. Officials said if the city had asked them to they could have switched to a backup water source for the medical center. They told employees to conserve water by using hand sanitizer, and drink bottled water...

There is a plan in the works that could relocate many of the Twin Falls County offices into the former St. Luke’s Hospital building on West Addison in Twin Falls.  The Times News reports today that   an Hummel Architects presented a rough plan and a $5.8 million cost estimate to remodel part of the old hospital building.  County Commissioners looked at the plan this week and indicated they were pl

The merger of St. Lukes Health System and St. Benedicts Family Medical Center in Jerome almost seems like a foregone conclusion.  However, it’s not really known yet if it is indeed fact.

There has been a lot of conversation recently about the possible merger of St. Benedicts Family Medical Center in Jerome and St. Luke Health System which operates hospitals all over the state, including Twin Falls.

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When Twin Falls County takes possession of the former hospital facility on July first, it will also inherit the maintenance requirements to keep it in a marketable condition.  The county is looking for tenants for the 17 acre facility and the only way to keep it marketable is to keep it looking nice.

An 82 year old woman from Twin Falls remains in stable condition in an Oregon hospital after a traffic accident in northeast Oregon.  The Oregon State Police say 82 year old Margaret Nessa of Twin Falls remains in the intensive-car unit at Grande Ronde Hospital after a cattle truck failed to slow on a steep grade at a construction site on Oregon Highway 82 Thursday...

After years of planning, building and waiting, it's official.  The new Saint Luke’s Magic Valley Regional Medical Center is now open for business. The doors of the new 70,000 square-foot hospital opened for business on Saturday.

As the deadline for the expiration of the St. Luke’s lease on the facilities at the current hospital draws closer, Twin Falls County commissioners are considering what to do with all that space.

The new CEO of St. Lukes Magic Valley Medical Center will be in place by the time the new facility opens its doors in May.