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You have to see this! Meteor sighting in eastern Idaho caught on dashcam – East Idaho News
Video of a meteor in the sky in eastern Idaho was caught on a dashcam on May 3, 2025. | Courtesy Jared Tate and National Weather Service in Pocatello, Idaho, Facebook page.
LIGHTING UP THE SKY — Videos shared online over the weekend of a bright light soaring across the sky got the attention of Idahoans and Utahans.
The National Weather Service in Pocatello, Idaho, shared on its Facebook page a dashcam video taken May 3, 2025. They credited the video to Jared Tate in Idaho Falls.
The footage shows a bright light in the sky that appears out of nowhere. It begins moving quickly across the sky in a downward direction then disappears. The NWS said the video is of a meteor.
“Meteors and fireballs are caused by space rocks (meteoroids) entering Earth’s atmosphere at high speeds, heating up from friction and glowing, sometimes brightly enough to create a fireball,” the Facebook caption reads.
Commenters on the video said they also saw a meteor that same night — whether it was the same meteor or not is not clear — in places such as Tetonia, near Birch Creek, Blackfoot and Hailey.
It’s not certain where the meteor landed that Tate’s dashcam recorded but residents in Ogden, Utah, were speculating that night that a meteorite struck there.
KUTV said a “suspected meteorite” was seen “plunging toward Weber County” with reports starting around 9:30 p.m. on May 3, 2025.
An Ogden woman said she saw a bright flash in the sky, followed by an echoing sound and rising smoke, the news outlet explained. The woman shared a photo of what she described to be a “plume of green smoke near 12th Street and Harrison Boulevard.”
NASA reported the annual Eta Aquarids meteor shower would be active from April 20 to May 21, 2025, with “peak night” being May 5 to May 6. NASA said these meteors are known for their high speed and would be viewable in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) – A controversy is brewing as the City of Idaho Falls reviews its alcohol ordinance.
The goal is to consolidate four existing ordinances for beer, wine and liquor into a single law and ensure compliance with state code.
However, at its meeting last Thursday, the Idaho Falls City Council unanimously voted to remove the proposed ordinance from its agenda, in order to receive and consider additional public comment.
The proposed ordinance would:
1. Require commercial establishments selling, dispensing or permitting consumption of alcohol – including beer, wine or liquor – to have an alcohol license, alcohol catering permit or a charitable event permit.
2. Business events with 20 or less employees consuming alcohol at the business would be allowed.
3. Require alcohol servers to complete training every three years.
4. Individuals who violate the law could be charged with a misdemeanor.
Idaho Falls City Council President Jim Francis said the changes were the culmination of months of collaboration between law enforcement, business owners and city attorneys.
“We wanted to provide a safe environment – the primary point here – for public gatherings,” Francis said. “We recognize that certain antiquated elements of the current code are overly restrictive and needed to be addressed. We wanted to make the code more accessible to the public. We needed to address over-pouring issues. We wanted to reduce penalties where possible for violations, particularly the first offenses, and yet make the code clear enough to be enforceable consistently by law enforcement.”
But City Council Member John Radford said the changes represent an overreach by city government.
“I believe it’s a bad policy. What problem are we solving in the name of trying to solve a non-problem?” Radford said. “We’re becoming big brother around alcohol in your private property. I’m concerned that landlords will be at risk of being charged with a misdemeanor if they knowingly, which I made sure that was in there, because that is what we’ve been talking about, allowed people to drink in our business. We will be outside the norm of Idaho cities. This is a big step, and I don’t think the public has weighed in on this.”
At a City Council Work Session on June 1, Idaho Falls Chief of Police Bryce Johnson cited an increase in alcohol-related crime – particularly downtown – as a reason for the changes.
“DUI is there, but this would include sexual assaults, assaults, batteries, disturbances, urination, public vandalism, shooting – all sorts of crimes,” Johnson said.
But business owners are concerned about the potential impact on commercial enterprises.
“The ordinance doesn’t address the real problem – which is people drinking … at one event and then showing up in a bar or restaurant already hammered and causing problems anyway,” ” said Terri Ireland, representing the Idaho Falls Downtown Merchants Association. “The industry is really well-regulated by state and local laws already.”
The City of Idaho Falls began the process of updating its alcohol ordinance in January 2026, seeking input from community stakeholders.
Multiple community members spoke out about the ordinance.
For more in-depth information, you can read the full 39-page proposed alcohol ordinance here.
BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — A simmering dispute between Idaho’s top elections official and the U.S. Department of Justice escalated this month after federal officials warned Secretary of State Phil McGrane about possible prosecution tied to non-citizens voting in Idaho.
The Justice Department sent a letter earlier this month threatening McGrane with prosecution. The warning came amid a broader conflict between the Trump administration and McGrane, whom the administration has sued over his refusal to provide unredacted voter rolls to the federal government.
Idaho’s chief of civil litigation, James Craig, responded on July 10. In a letter first reported by the Idaho Statesman, Craig pushed back on the federal warning, writing, “Insinuations of criminal violations of the federal election laws are not well taken,” and asking the department to “stop threatening your friends in Idaho.”
Craig also requested that the lawsuit against McGrane be dismissed and criticized the Justice Department for sending its letter directly to McGrane rather than to the Idaho attorney general’s office.
The attorney general’s office said the state has already referred 15 cases of possible non-citizen election violations to the Justice Department but is not aware of any of them being prosecuted. Craig’s letter ends by asking the department to do so.
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