About

The Valley Signal is an independent digital news publication covering Teton Valley, Idaho: Victor, Driggs, Tetonia, and the surrounding county. We launched in March 2026 and are a member of LION Publishers.

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.

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Valley Signal LLC, Publisher, Victor, Idaho
Wade Williams, Owner and Editor

Wade Williams has final say over everything we publish, under any byline. Reach him at [email protected].

Byline policy

Some work is produced by the publication as an operation: the Sheriff Blotter, the Week Ahead, briefs, and much of our reporting. That work runs under Valley Signal Staff. The byline tells you it came from the Signal itself, not from a guest columnist or an outside contributor.

When one person reported and wrote a piece, it carries that person's name. Opinion runs under the writer's name and is labeled as opinion.

Whatever the byline, the same standards apply.

LION Publishers member

The Valley Signal is a member of LION Publishers, the national association of Local Independent Online News publishers.

LION reviews its members for independent ownership, original local reporting, labeled opinion, a public corrections policy, and a commitment to accuracy, transparency, and journalism ethics. Membership renews annually. We are listed in LION's member directory.

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 work from primary sources: agendas, public meetings, court filings, public records, and direct interviews.

Editorial standards

We aim straight down the middle. Here are the facts. Make your own decisions.

We report what happened, what the documents say, who voted which way, what it costs, and who responded or declined to. We attribute. We cite. We let readers draw their own conclusions.

Opinion is labeled. Everything else is news or analysis grounded in the documented record.

How we work

We report, edit, and verify every piece against primary sources before it runs. We read every document we cite. We confirm every vote we describe.

We use every legitimate tool available: public records requests, government agenda feeds, court filing databases, reader tips, direct reporting, and AI. AI does not decide what we cover or publish, and it does not replace reading the source or listening to the meeting.

Reader tips are one of our most valuable inputs. A meeting agenda worth scrutinizing, a document that deserves attention, a story we're missing: send it to [email protected].

Conflicts of interest

When a story touches any entity in which Valley Signal LLC, its owner, or a contributor has a direct financial or leadership interest, the story says so.

Coverage is not for sale. Every dollar of income is published at Open Books.

Corrections

We correct errors in public. If you think we got something wrong, email [email protected]. We fix the original story and note the date and what changed.

Contact

[email protected] for tips, letters, corrections, or anything else.