In 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the U.S. was going to start building fallout shelters. Boise's was the first. That shelter is now for sale.

The first communal bomb shelter in the United States was constructed in Boise in 1961, during the height of the Cold War. Designed to be multifunctional, the Boise Bomb Shelter provided young ...

According to the Boise Police Department, the discovery on Thursday, May 15, prompted officials to issue a shelter-in-place order for the neighborhood, as bomb squad specialists were called to the ...

Boise police Several improvised explosive devices were detonated by the Boise police bomb squad Tuesday after they were discovered while serving a search warrant on Alfred Court on the far-west Bench.

According to the Boise Police Department, the discovery on Thursday, May 15, prompted officials to issue a shelter-in-place order for the neighborhood, as bomb squad specialists were called to the ...