U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says the latest $10 million federal investment into the “Wildland Fire Resilient Landscapes Program,” which she announced during a visit to Idaho today, will make critical landscapes across the country more resilient to the impacts of wildfire and climate change....
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Tuesday toured a massive wildfire rehabilitation effort in southwest Idaho that's part of the federal government's new wildfire strategy and then announced $10 million for projects in 12 states to reduce wildfire threats. The money is part of the Wildland Fire Resilient Landscapes Program intended to restore...
Gov. Butch Otter has joined governors in seven other states in proclaiming May as “Wildfire Awareness Month,” declaring that “wildfires increasingly pose a threat to homes and communities throughout the West.” The proclamation, also signed by the governors of California, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota,…
An Idaho Falls man is suing Idaho State University, claiming that he was discriminated against because of his Mormon faith. The Post Register reports that Orin Duffin filed the lawsuit Friday. He says he was severely harassed while playing for the men's tennis team...
A coalition in southern Idaho hopes to turn Craters of the Moon National Monument into Idaho's first national park. Butte County commissioner Rose Bernal said getting the monument national park status could provide a much-needed boost to the struggling local economy and draw...
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