NAMPA — A new indoor football team may begin playing games in the Ford Idaho Center arena in 2019, pending contract negotiations. The team, the Idaho Horsemen, are advertising its season to ...

Outdoors, the largest concerts at Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater have been Morgan Wallen with 10,518 fans in 2022, Shania Twain with an estimated 10,500 in 1998 and Kenny Chesney with 10,315 in 2018.

While the proposal wasn’t motivated by a poor financial standing, Kling said that the center, like most large event venues, does not fund itself.

The Ford Idaho Center's general manager says no COVID-19 cases have been traced directly to events at the arena, even without a mask mandate there.

Taking control of the Ford Idaho Center, which is next to CWI’s Nampa campus, is a natural extension of having 31,000 students, Jones said. Of their enrollment, 98% are from Idaho and 82% live ...

Macklemore Oct. 12, 2023, at Idaho Central Arena in Boise; Dierks Bentley Aug. 10, 2023, at Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater in Nampa; sales for both March 10, 2023.

Nampa Mayor Debbie Kling said, "It's like taking the Ford Idaho Center to the next level, creating new opportunities." She said, "I think that CWI is better equipped to maximize the utilization of ...

Randall King, an opening act at Pardi’s Idaho Center show, is still coming. He and his band will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday at Stoney’s Road House in Emmett. Tickets start at $10 in advance.

The Ford Idaho Center, which includes the Idaho Horse Park (upper right, behind the arena), is one of the most popular venues in Idaho for concerts, rodeos, sports tournaments and other events.