HAILEY, Idaho, April 3 -- The Western Watersheds Project issued the following news release: * * * Conservationists, residents urge facts, not fairytales, in Catron County emergency meeting Fire danger, drought are real threats facing rural agriculture RESERVE, N.M.--Conservationists and Catron County residents are calling out a plan by the Catron County Board of County Commissioners to declare a "state of emergency" due to wolves in the County. A press release issued by the Commissioners pr  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, April 3 [Category: Construction] -- Associated General Contractors of America posted the following news release: * * * Construction Jobs Increase In 189 Metro Areas Between February 2024 And February 2025; Tariffs Threaten To Cause Cancellations And Job Losses Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, Fla., Boise, Idaho and Kokomo, Ind. Lead in Number and Percentage of Job Gains, While Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Calif. and Elizabethtown, Ky. Experience Worst Job Losses  Construc  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 [Category: Political] -- Americans for Tax Reform posted the following commentary: * * * How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is Helping Idaho Below is a continuously updated list of good news arising from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted by President Trump and congressional Republicans in 2017, and which now must be made permanent. The average annual TCJA tax cut for Idaho households is $1,318. ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL IRS DATA: 217,660 Idaho households are benefiting from   more

WASHINGTON, April 3 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Idaho Power Proposes Massive Decrease in Rooftop Solar Compensation Rate Boise, ID \- Idaho Power has filed an application with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to significantly decrease the compensation rates for the excess energy produced by rooftop solar owners, known as the Export Credit Rates (ECRs) in another attempt to hurt rooftop solar financial viability in Idaho as ele  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Earthworks issued the following news release: * * * Stibnite Gold Mine Water Quality Permit Sent Back to the Drawing Board in Response to Conservation Groups' Appeal Idaho Department of Environmental Quality seeks to modify previously issued permit for massive gold mine threatening clean water in Idaho BOISE, ID -- In response to conservation groups' appeal of a water quality permit issued for the proposed Stibnite Gold Mine due to its inadequacy to protect water qual  more