BYU-Idaho Radio

BYU Football is gearing up for a new season with a fierce quarterback competition following the unexpected departure of starter Jake Retzlaff. Fresh faces Bear Bachmeier, McCae Hillstead and Treyson Bourguet are battling for the top spot as training camp kicks off.

When massage therapists and fiancés Jaiden Stevens and Avri Quigley noticed a lack of safe, supportive fitness spaces for women in Rexburg, they decided to open HER Fit, the city’s first and only women-only gym.

Sue Smith, a two-time winner of the barrel racing competition at the War Bonnet Round Up Rodeo in Idaho Falls, is gearing up for another win.

Park’s Place Smokehouse will host a fundraising event Friday at the Wolfe It Down Food Court to support victims of the Texas flood.

The Idaho Falls Area Humanitarian Center is asking for donations of supplies to help fellow nonprofits in eastern Idaho.

Local independent filmmaker Connor McFarlane is preparing to release his latest project, a crime-comedy action film titled “Thrifters.”

Moving to Idaho led Ben Trosper not only to a new home, but to a new faith. Moving to Idaho from Michigan for a new job introduced Trosper to new neighbors and friends who shared their faith in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Filmmaker Jared Hess believes being authentic and creating things he genuinely enjoys will form everyday truths that resonate with audiences.

“I always feel that if you’re doing anything authentic, inevitably there’s going to be some truth to it,” Hess said. “And that truth is going to be what lasts and connects with people.”

Everyone say goodbye to our host Camille Kolditz and our camera man Chance Herman! We are bidding farewell to our wonderful friends on this episode as Camille is heading on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Chance is graduating.