Idaho

Idaho is famous for potatoes.

It's cold in Idaho in the winter.

Mary studies skunks in the mountains of Idaho.

Brigham Young University (BYU), which operates on four campuses in Utah, Idaho and Hawaii, is a private, not-for-profit school governed by the religious doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), also known as Mormons.

There were reports of overpriced potatoes in Idaho.

America's growing interest in wine and wine culture has uncorked a new kind of real estate development, as Guy Hand reports from the Idaho wine country in the Northwest.

Caviar, a delicacy usually associated with the sturgeon that swim in the Caspian Sea, is also being produced at an American sturgeon farm in the Western state of Idaho. Idaho caviar sells for $1 a gram at the farm, but sells for five times as much when it arrives at restaurants and stores. Lesia Bakalets traveled to the farm to see what it takes to raise sturgeons and collect their roe.

By far, most land owned by the federal government is in the American West. The feds own almost 47 percent of the 11 coterminous Western states, which include California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington State, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. The U.S. government owns a whopping 85 percent of land in the state of Nevada.

Peavey and her husband run one of the oldest sheep ranches in this part of Idaho. They decided to become proactive, to share their heritage with the recreationists, the vacation home owners and other new arrivals. Now every fall, one of the local sheep ranching families trails their flock right through the center of the resort town. It's turned into an annual festival called the Trailing of the Sheep.

Oregon’s uptick in marijuana sales along the Idaho border doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s all Idahoans who are lighting up, Lehner said.