More than 200 wildland firefighters have been mobilized by the National Interagency Fire Center to help fight the Fort McMurray fire in Canada, with five of the crews flying on a Canadian aircraft out of NIFC in Boise this morning, and another flying out of...
Texas and 10 other states are filing a lawsuit over the Obama administration’s transgender student guidelines, Idaho EdNews reports, and Idaho plans to file an amicus brief supporting the states. Mark Warbis, spokesman for Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, said the state is working on the…
Idaho Fish & Game Commission Chairman Will Naillon has announced he won’t reapply for his post, the Lewiston Tribune reports today. Gov. Butch Otter’s office announced earlier that Naillon and Commissioner Mark Doerr would have to reapply if they wanted another term; Otter’s also announced…
Federal prosecutors in Las Vegas are pushing to keep evidence secret in the 2014 Cliven Bundy standoff case, arguing that Bundy backers would use names and information disclosed in evidence to target court officials and intimidate witnesses in the criminal case. Threats already have been received, they said. News media, including the Associated...
The rehab effort from the massive Soda Fire in southwestern Idaho is a “learning exercise” that will allow the nation to learn how best to restore landscapes damaged by fire, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said during her visit to the site yesterday. “The amount…
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