15 years ago if you wanted a piping hot slice of Pizza in downtown Boise, you had one option: Guido's New York Style Pizza.

Now, you've got all sorts of options: Pie Hole. The Front Door. Boise Café. But Guido's is still here, serving up thin slices just as they did 15 years ago.

As I live right on Bogus Basin Road, I can make a (limited) assessment of the kind of day it is. In the winter, traffic backed up: powder day. This morning, hundreds of bicycle riders going uphill: the 37th annual Bogus Basin Hill Climb.

People can't help be drawn to the bright glowing lights and screams of the thrill rides at the Western Idaho Fair. The same can be said of at least one photographer. Check out more time exposure images of the rides from Tuesday night in a small photo gallery at idahostatesman.com.

The Western Idaho Fair was a popular place to be on Sunday. Here are some scenes from the annual Treasure Valley summer tradition, which started on Friday and will run through August 30th.

The list of creative costumes at Tour de Fat Saturday in Boise included one Blue Man. Or to be more exact: Someone dressed as Tobias Funke from the television comedy Arrested Development playing a Blue Man.

This was the view Friday morning in Meridian as news photographers filmed the home of Robert Dale Burns. Burns, 38, is suspected of producing meth at the home. Three Meridian police officers were exposed to chemicals after responding to the call late Thursday night. All three were taken to a local hospital and later released.

Jared Keylon, of Fort Scott Kansas holds on during the bareback bronc riding event at the Caldwell Night Rodeo on Tuesday Aug. 18, 2008.

Daniel Ehrlick Jr. and his girlfriend, Melissa Scott Jenkins, appeared in an Ada County Courtroom in Boise Wednesday Aug. 19, 2009 for an arraignment hearing. Ehrlick and Jenkins were arrested on Tuesday Aug. 18, 2009 on first-degree murder charges in the death of Jenkins' 8-year-old son Robert Manwill.