Gov. Butch Otter has activated Idaho National Guard personnel and equipment to support firefighting efforts on the Clearwater Complex fires in north-central Idaho, sending a Blackhawk helicopter and crew. “The devastation caused by the Clearwater Complex fires has caused untold hardships and loss for individuals and families...
The city of Boise has adopted a new voluntary “green building code,” and says all city-owned construction projects will follow it, starting with a new library branch in Bown Crossing and two new fire stations that voters approved last November. “Buildings are responsible for more…
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality has issued a rare statewide air quality advisory, with smoke from wildfires pushing air quality into at least the moderate to unhealthy range everywhere in the state, and in some areas near the north-central Idaho wildfires, into the “very...
Idaho County Commissioner Jim Chmelik’s crusade to press the federal government to transfer federal public lands to the states is arriving in the Treasure Valley next week, when Russ and Kara Fulcher will hold a fundraiser at their home for Chmelik’s new corporation, the Western...
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