About
The Valley Signal is an independent, daily digital news publication covering Teton Valley, Idaho: Victor, Driggs, Tetonia, Alta, and the surrounding county. We launched in March 2026.
Signal over noise: fast, accurate, local journalism with no filler. We cover the meetings, decisions, and developments that affect the valley, and we publish what we find, whether it's comfortable or not.
What we cover
Government and accountability. Growth and land use. Health and safety. The stories that determine what this valley looks like in five years, ten years, and a generation. We prioritize primary sources: court filings, government agendas, public records, and direct interviews over secondary reporting.
Editorial standards
We aim straight down the middle. Here are the facts. Make your own decisions.
No spin. No editorial thumb on the scale. We don't sort coverage into "favorable" and "unfavorable" piles. We report what happened, what the documents say, who voted which way, what the dollar figures are, and who responded or declined to respond. We attribute. We cite. We let readers draw their own conclusions.
Opinion pieces carry a label. Everything else is news or analysis grounded in the documented record.
How we work
A human writes, edits, and verifies every piece we publish against primary sources. We read every document we cite. We confirm every vote we describe. A human had every conversation we quote.
We use every legitimate tool available to do that work: public records searches, government agenda feeds, court filing databases, reader tips, direct reporting, and AI for research assistance and document review. AI does not make editorial decisions, choose what we cover, write our stories without human authorship and verification, or substitute for reading a primary source ourselves.
Reader tips are one of our most valuable inputs. If you see something happening in the valley we should look at, a meeting agenda worth scrutinizing, a document that deserves attention, a story we're missing, send it to [email protected].
How we're organized
The publisher and contributors write under the Valley Signal byline rather than individual names. This is our deliberate editorial choice, not an evasion. Anonymous and pseudonymous publishing has a long tradition in American journalism, from the Federalist Papers forward, and it serves a specific purpose in a small community: it asks readers to engage with the reporting on its merits rather than with the reporter's biography, politics, or personal life.
Anonymity places a higher burden on us, not a lower one. We meet it by sourcing with care, citing primary documents wherever possible, and correcting errors in public. We have also identified ourselves to relevant local government bodies and law enforcement, including the City of Victor and the Teton County Sheriff's Office, in the ordinary course of establishing press relationships.
Disclosures and conflicts
The people behind the Valley Signal live here full-time. We have kids in valley schools, we own property here, and we have a long-term stake in what this place becomes. That shapes what we cover and why.
If our reporting touches any entity in which the publisher or a contributor has a direct financial or leadership interest, we disclose that relationship in line within the article.
Advertisers do not influence editorial decisions. We do not accept advertising in exchange for favorable coverage or the suppression of unfavorable coverage.
Corrections
We correct errors in public. If you believe we've gotten something wrong, email [email protected]. We will make corrections to the original article with the date and what we changed.
Contact
Reach us at [email protected] for tips, letters to the editor, corrections, advertising inquiries, or anything else.