With Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s GOP presidential campaign hitting Coeur d’Alene, Boise, Nampa and Idaho Falls this week, Idaho GOP Chairman Stephen Yates says Idaho Republicans are getting more chance now to view the candidates. “That’s absolutely welcome,” Yates said. “We think having an early…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a potato genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine and that still damages crops. Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co. says that the…
Another 20-plus Idaho National Guard members joined the state’s firefighting effort today, headed from Boise to the Panhandle National Forests to provide support to firefighting operations in the Grizzly Complex fires. That’s on top of the 40 Idaho Air National Guard members who headed north…
Things have gotten worse at the Tepee Springs Fire, and the BLM’s Cottonwood Field Office just announced that the escape route that was being used to ferry rafters off the Salmon River at French Creek, via Forest Road 246 to McCall, is no longer safe...
A federal judge in North Dakota on Thursday blocked a new Obama administration rule that would give the federal government jurisdiction over some smaller waterways just hours before it was set to go into effect, the AP reports. U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson in Fargo...
The federal government plans to spend more than $200 million over the next three years on programs to protect greater sage grouse in Western states, regardless of whether the bird receives federal protections, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday. Vilsack told The Associated Press…
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