Robert Patten

When nonprogrammers think of coding, they often imagine some magical thing only math geniuses can comprehend. Curly braces. Dollar signs. Inscrutable equations. Go here and start typing anything to feel like a “real” coder. (And to be truly legit, you need to type really, really fast and loud like the programmers do in the movies.) […]

So far the installments in this little create-your-own-computer-RPG series have been about designing and planning. What makes a good monster? How does your world work? This final post will be about tools. And honestly, it’s the least important. Create your own RPG This Creative Tech series deals with creating your own RPG or fantasy/sci-fi story. …

Utah officials have discovered a mysterious metal monolith in the southeastern part of the state, the state Department of Public Safety announced Monday. The Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau was working with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to conduct a count of big horn sheep on Wednesday when personnel spotted something unusual […]

Are you tired of pouring milk in your cereal morning after morning? Do you feel that life may have something sweeter to offer? Something … oranger? Tropicana has the solution for would-be breakfast adventurers. Dubbed “the first cereal made for OJ (and maybe the last),” Tropicana Crunch is, well … we’ll let the company’s marketing …

The following is a news release from the Idaho Falls Fire Department on Wednesday. Great teamwork this afternoon! Just before 4 p.m. today we were dispatched to a field fire on the Arco Highway. The reporting party told the emergency communications officer that they were shooting when a spark caused…

With millions of acres of backcountry in the Gem State, maybe Sasquatch has some company! Check out these Idaho cryptids.

It’s a good time of year to confess to an Easter egg I made on EastIdahoNews.com. It has been a running gag for years. If you’ve ever seen an alien head instead of a play button in our logo above one of our stories (this one doesn’t count), you caught it! This is only on […]