The Idaho Public Utilities Commission staff recommended their bosses deny Idaho Power’s proposed rate structure for solar and other net metering customers. The staff countered nearly every argument Idaho Power made to justify the proposal that increases the rate solar…
Former Democratic Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus called Republican Sen. Jim Risch an “obstructionist” for stopping Republican Rep. Mike Simpson’s Boulder-White Clouds wilderness bill. The two men fought regularly when Risch was Idaho Senate Pro Tem and Andrus was governor in…
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission issued a policy statement saying it wants grizzly bears delisted in Idaho. But the body that oversees management of all wildlife in the state said it does not support protecting grizzly bears in the…
Wolf depredations at former Democratic State Sen. John Peavey’s Flat Top Ranch is making news again in the Wood River Valley. The Mountain Express reported the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and USDA Wildlife Services confirmed that 18 lambs…
History alone is enough reason to make the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains a national monument, speakers at Redfish Lodge said Saturday. Cecil Andrus’ fight to stop a molybdenum mine at Castle Peak in 1970 got him elected governor and changed conservation…
Sometimes moments come together that mark the advances we’ve made in government, in attitudes and in our advancement as a state and a people. Often they take place in government, such as when Idaho Gov. Phil Batt signed legislation to…
Idacorp CEO LaMont Keen told stockholders Thursday its subsidiary Idaho Power will continue to rely on coal plants in Wyoming and Nevada at least for now. Keen told the 10 stockholders who attended the annual meeting that it will revisit…
The Sierra Club will be demonstrating Thursday outside of the Idacorp, Inc. annual shareholders meet on the sidewalk in front of Idaho Power headquarters in Boise. The group urged marchers to be respectful of Idaho Power’s private property and people…
The Obama administration has dropped its appeal of a federal judge’s decision to negate the listing of slickspot peppergrass as a threatened species. Chief U.S. Magistrate Candy Dale refused in December to reconsider her ruling the previous August that the…
Biologists at Boise State University say birds thought to tolerate humans, like American kestrels, may not be so laid back around us. Erin H. Strasser and Julie A. Heath of Boise State University laid out their case in a study…
