https://sunvalleytribune.com/feed.xmlLocal news for Sun Valley, Ketchum, and Blaine County, Idaho.en-usSun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600https://sunvalleytribune.com/sun-valley-jazz-festival-37th-opens-oct-15/https://sunvalleytribune.com/sun-valley-jazz-festival-37th-opens-oct-15/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600Sadie LarkThe 37th annual Sun Valley Jazz and Music Festival opened Thursday, Oct. 15, and runs through Sunday, Oct. 18, across the Sun Valley Village. Visit Sun Valley counts 110 live performances by 47 bands and guest artists at five venues with four dance floors, plus free music at the Sun Valley Inn and two free community concerts on Ketchum Town Square.https://sunvalleytribune.com/wood-river-valley-flood-watch-oct-11/https://sunvalleytribune.com/wood-river-valley-flood-watch-oct-11/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600Ellis RourkeA Flood Watch covers the Ketchum and Sun Valley area through 6 p.m. Monday as a weekend storm keeps rain falling across the valley, with the rain expected to change to snow overnight.https://sunvalleytribune.com/sun-valley-sunny-side-campaign-2026/https://sunvalleytribune.com/sun-valley-sunny-side-campaign-2026/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600Jonah PikeFortnight Collective is extending Sun Valley Resort's 'Ski on the Sunny Side' campaign for the 2026-27 season with 'Make the Sunny Side Your Own,' a creator-led continuation inviting skiers, riders, and creators to document their own unscripted mountain moments.https://sunvalleytribune.com/trailing-of-the-sheep-30th-underway/https://sunvalleytribune.com/trailing-of-the-sheep-30th-underway/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600Sadie LarkThe 30th annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival opened Wednesday in Ketchum, Hailey and Sun Valley, five days of sheepherding heritage that close Sunday with the Big Sheep Parade down Main Street.https://sunvalleytribune.com/observatory-viceroy-klaus-parking-ketchum/https://sunvalleytribune.com/observatory-viceroy-klaus-parking-ketchum/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600Victor AmesKLAUS Multiparking America has finished a two-level mechanical parking system with 86 spaces at The Observatory, a Viceroy Resort in Ketchum, the first such installation in the city, ahead of the hotel's fall 2026 opening.https://sunvalleytribune.com/sun-valley-2026-27-winter-preview/https://sunvalleytribune.com/sun-valley-2026-27-winter-preview/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600Jonah PikeSun Valley Resort opens its 91st winter season with two new high-speed lifts scheduled for December, the return of the FIS Ski World Cup Finals in March, and its standing as the first U.S. resort certified by DarkSky International.https://sunvalleytribune.com/observatory-viceroy-ketchum-mechanical-parking/https://sunvalleytribune.com/observatory-viceroy-ketchum-mechanical-parking/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600Silas WardKLAUS Multiparking America says it has finished a two-level mechanical parking system at The Observatory, A Viceroy Resort, giving the downtown Ketchum hotel 86 valet spaces on a site where a conventional garage would not fit.https://sunvalleytribune.com/sun-valley-proposed-budget-fy2026/https://sunvalleytribune.com/sun-valley-proposed-budget-fy2026/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600Iris FieldingThe city's proposed fiscal 2026 budget sets spending at $13,504,762 against $12,296,510 in expected revenue, a gap of $1,208,252 between what the city plans to spend and what it expects to take in.https://sunvalleytribune.com/keeping-people-housing-column/https://sunvalleytribune.com/keeping-people-housing-column/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600Celia VaneRiver Bend's 81 apartments are real progress. But a 65-year deed restriction tells you what the market already knows: this valley cannot house its workforce on its own.https://sunvalleytribune.com/why-the-tribune-exists/https://sunvalleytribune.com/why-the-tribune-exists/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600Helen MarloweA new newspaper for Sun Valley, Ketchum, and Blaine County, built on public records and the conviction that a community this consequential deserves journalism this serious.https://sunvalleytribune.com/bald-mountain-new-lifts-december/https://sunvalleytribune.com/bald-mountain-new-lifts-december/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600Jonah PikeSun Valley Resort says its replacement Lookout Express and Christmas lifts, approved by federal land managers in March, are scheduled to open in December for the 2026-27 winter season.https://sunvalleytribune.com/darksky-certification/https://sunvalleytribune.com/darksky-certification/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600Maude HartleyDarkSky International has certified the resort through its Approved Lodging and Resorts program, recognizing responsible outdoor lighting, habitat protection, and public education about light pollution.https://sunvalleytribune.com/big-wood-groundwater-plan/https://sunvalleytribune.com/big-wood-groundwater-plan/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600Maude HartleyAn advisory committee has recommended extending the Big Wood River groundwater management plan through Dec. 31, 2027, as work continues on the region's water model and accounting tools.https://sunvalleytribune.com/world-cup-finals-2027/https://sunvalleytribune.com/world-cup-finals-2027/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600Hugo BarrettThe Audi FIS Alpine World Cup Finals come back to Bald Mountain for downhill, super-G, giant slalom, and slalom.https://sunvalleytribune.com/elkhorn-road-summer-2026/https://sunvalleytribune.com/elkhorn-road-summer-2026/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600Silas WardThe city's plan for this summer's Idaho 75 construction season restricted Elkhorn Road to emergency traffic for nearly a month, backed by an evacuation protocol, a law enforcement partnership, and daily updates.https://sunvalleytribune.com/friedman-memorial-tower-design/https://sunvalleytribune.com/friedman-memorial-tower-design/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600Edmund FrostFederal airport terminal funds will cover the design and bidding of a relocated, sponsor-owned traffic-control tower at the airport serving Sun Valley and Ketchum.https://sunvalleytribune.com/music-festival-42nd-season/https://sunvalleytribune.com/music-festival-42nd-season/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600Sadie LarkThe Sun Valley Music Festival wrapped its 42nd summer season Aug. 20 with Mahler's Symphony No. 1 at the Pavilion, closing nearly a month of free concerts.https://sunvalleytribune.com/writers-conference-student-luncheon/https://sunvalleytribune.com/writers-conference-student-luncheon/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600Sadie LarkLocal high school students who spent the school year reading Beth Macy's “Paper Girl” sat down with the author over lunch at the 2026 Sun Valley Writers' Conference.