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by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS—An explosion There was no “In an However the rig was An estimated 4.9 The explosion BOISE -- Idaho Lottery officials say time is about to run out for someone holding a Powerball ticket worth $1 million. The winning ticket was sold for the March 6, 2010 Powerball draw. The ticket was purchased at Huskey's in Irwin, Idaho near the Idaho-Wyoming border. The ticket matched the first five numbers, but not the Powerball. Winners have 180 days to collect their prizes, and tonight at 6 p.m. that deadline will expire if the ticket holder does not arrive at Idaho Lottery headquarters in Boise. “Too many times we’ve seen players think they did not have a winning ticket because they did not match the Powerball number itself,” said Idaho Lottery Director Jeff Anderson. “In this case, the winning ticket matched every number but the Powerball number and with the PowerPlay, is worth $1 million.” The winning numbers for that night were 10, 29, 33, 41, and 59. The Powerball number was 15. This ticket is a “Match 5” ticket meaning it matched every number but not the Powerball....
A mile-long oil sheen spread Thursday from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico off Lousiana, west of the site of BP's massive spill.
BOISE -- Boise Police have released a surveillance camera photo of a man who robbed a drug store at the corner of Orchard Street and Overland Road last Thursday. Detectives have also released an updated description of the robbery suspect. Police say he is a light-skinned male, 18-25 years old, with a thin build and dark brown close cut hair. The suspect was wearing a black hoodie style sweatshirt with gold or yellow writing on the front, white or grey t-shirt underneath, black "dickie" style pants and black tennis shoes. Police say around 7:48 p.m. on Aug. 26, the suspect walked into the drug store, approached the cashier and demanded the money. He did not display or threaten the clerk with a weapon. The woman feared for her safety and gave him some cash. Anyone with information about this case is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 343-COPS. Maybe Jerome County Planning and Zoning commissioners didn't read BW's examination of CAFOs in the Magic Valley. Maybe they did.… [ Read more ] Alternate Energy Holdings, which found little to no interest from Elmore or Owyhee counties in its attempt to build a nuclear power plant, is finding plenty of support for doing the same in Payette County. The Payette Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Sept .2, announced its official endorsement of AEHI's plan to build a nuclear facility in their back yard.… [ Read more ] by Randy Rieland. Ready for your morning bowl of crazy? Five years ago, Congress set aside millions of acres of public land in the Southwest for the development of solar farms. This was primo real estate for solar, considered one of the best spots in the world. So far not one solar panel has been erected. Oh, you want us to build something? This discouraging news comes courtesy of the AP’s Jason Dearen, whose investigation shows that the understaffed U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) focused almost all its time on approving oil and gas projects and leased the land on a first-come, first-served basis, often to outfits with little or no experience in actually building solar farms. Case in point: Cogentrix Solar Services, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. Cogentrix had zero solar experience, but holds leases on nearly half the Nevada acreage for which applications have been filed. Another sickening stat: In the last five years, the BLM has approved more than 73,000 oil and gas leases on public land,... Landis Rossi has been named the new executive director of Catholic Charities of Idaho. Rossi, who is serving as program manager for service integration at Idaho's Department of Health and Welfare, will assume her new duties Monday, Sept. 20.… [ Read more ] Build a road, find some gold. That's pretty much the latest report from Boise's Thunder Mountain Gold at its South Mountain property in Owyhee County.… [ Read more ] by Jonathan Hiskes. An offshore oil platform exploded in the Gulf The platform, which was owned by the Houston-based Mariner It’s unclear whether the While we’re catching up on our fossil-fuel disasters, more than 1,000 barrels of oil spilled in North Dakota this week too. Of course, maybe that’s just North Dakota’s way...
It's been a great summer for hunting the West's wild mushrooms.
Tractors are pulling in profits for stock investors. The dramatic growth of emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil; strong crop prices; and the potential for a U.S. economic recovery continue to boost the prices of agricultural equipment manufacturers. Such a positive outlook makes sense in a world that needs to be fed and for a [...]
Hurricane Earl packed winds near 140 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard up to Maine on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain.
A crop duster crashed this morning between Hansen and Murtaugh.
Holy Cross Energy, which serves customers in Colorado's Roaring Fork and Eagle valleys and the Interstate 70 corridor west of Glenwood Springs, wants to add 10 megawatts of energy generated by renewable resources to its portfolio, and is accepting proposals for wind, solar, geothermal and other renewable-energy projects through Jan. 31, 2011.
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Morse Arberry, the Las Vegas Democrat that has served as representative of Assembly District 7 for 25 years, turned in his resignation to Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons on Tuesday.
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Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and her Democratic challenger Terry Goddard traded jabs over illegal immigration Wednesday night, while the two other candidates, Libertarian Barry Hess and Green Party candidate Larry Gist, said little.
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At a speech at Montana State University Billings, Gov. Brian Schweitzer discounted legislative forecasts of a $400-million budget gap and said revenues from farming and mining will help bridge that gap.
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After a University of Alberta study of the Athabasca River near Alberta's oilsands operations found high levels of contaminants, while an industry study did not, Premier Ed Stelmach said he would have scientists sit down and study the data and prepare a report for him.
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The U.S. Forest Service said conditions are favorable for its plan for a prescribed burn on 4,300 acres of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada, and that the burn will begin on Sept. 13.
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A 2 1/2-year-old male grizzly bear that had been raiding trash in Montana's West Kootenai area was captured and radio-collared by state game officials and relocated to the Kootenai National Forest.
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Idaho Fish and Game officials will hold a series of public meetings over the next couple of weeks in the Magic Valley to get comments on proposed changes to fishing regulations.
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The Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes opened a new Tribal Health Clinic in Polson on Wednesday that offers a full range of health care services to the tribes' members in Montana.
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Sue and Randy Peterson's 3,774-acre Flint Creek Valley ranch near Drummond will remain ranchland now that they have put a conservation easement on the land with Five Valleys Land Trust, which will take responsibility for maintaining a 2 1/2-mile trail to Beacon Hill, a first for the Montana land trust.
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Southwest Colorado Broadband, and its Denver-based principals, Michael McHale and Tom French, should hear any day if the company will get a $27-million stimulus grant to expand broadband internet service in Durango and southwest Colorado, but existing internet providers in that area of the state are questioning the need for a new, non-local provider, and how they can compete against a government-subsidized competitor.
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The Pew Hispanic Center issued a new report that said the number of people illegally entering the United States fell nearly two-thirds between 2005 and 2009, dropping the number of undocumented residents from 12 million in 2007 to 11.1 million in 2009.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that new interim rules for genetically modified sugar beets, banned by a federal court earlier this summer because of insufficient review of their environmental impact, would be issued by the end of this year.
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Energy companies are exploring Montana's Paradise Valley for oil and gas resources, and before wells spring up every 20 acres, residents should ask themselves if the economic gain is worth the environmental cost. A column by Andrea Peacock, a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News.
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Defenders of Wildlife's decision to end its program that compensated farmers and ranchers for livestock killed by wolves was made because there is now a program in place funded by the federal government and states that makes the DOW program redundant. A guest editorial by Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife in Washington, D.C.
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Tapping into our nation's resources of renewable energy needs the same political leadership and funding that it took to build the nation's interstate highway system, and Congress should endorse a plan to link and fund research centers in the West that are already at work on renewable-energy projects.
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Hundreds of people from Wyoming and Colorado attended an informational forum in Laramie about the Niobrara oil play, which stretches from the Colorado border to Torrington, and if test wells are productive could bring an energy boom to that area that could rival that of the Jonah Field.
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A new study published in the journal Ecology done by the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Montana and Humboldt State University said that elk are still having a considerable impact on aspen stands in Yellowstone National Park despite the reintroduction of wolves, which some research said would move elk along and help aspen trees regenerate.
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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the companies and counties that objected to the withdrawal of 77 Bureau of Land Management leases in Utah after they were auctioned off filed their objections too late, and dismissed their case.
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After getting unsatisfactory responses from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and EnCana Oil & Gas USA, the company that operates oil and gas wells interspersed throughout their community, about their complaints that energy operations were contaminating their water, Pavillion-area residents went to the federal Environmental Protection Agency with their concerns, and this week the EPA told residents not to drink or use water from at least 20 wells in the area.
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected on Tuesday The Center for Biological Diversity's request for a temporary injunction to halt construction of the Ruby Pipeline, which will carry natural gas from Wyoming to Oregon.
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In a federal quiet title lawsuit over control of 15 roads in Utah, the federal government stipulated that 27 miles of the 33-mile Skutumpah Road, a back road leading to Cannonville that is within the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, should be maintained and controlled by Kane County.
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U.S. Federal Magistrate Jeremiah Lynch recommended Tuesday that a lawsuit filed by gun advocates and backed by Montana, Utah, Alabama, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming and West Virginia that guns and ammunition made in those states and kept within their borders are not subject to federal control should be dismissed.
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Researchers from universities in Colorado and Idaho and from the Forest Service�s Rocky Mountain Research Station in Montana announced Wednesday a five-year, $3.85-million study on how changes in climate are affecting wildfires.
Helena Independent Record (AP) View Comments | BILLINGS, Mont. -- Scientists in Montana, Colorado and Idaho are conducting a $3.85 million research project into how a changing climate will influence wildfires. Work started Wednesday on the project, which is being pursued in partnership with scientists in Australia and New Zealand. Montana State University professor Cathy Whitlock says the goal is to identify how wildfires are driven by human activities and climate change. Whitlock says the frequency and severity of wildfires have increased around the world in recent years. Warmer temperatures can dry out forests and encourage the proliferation of beetles and other pests that kill trees, creating fuel for more intense fires.
A Boise exploration company that searches for high-grade
BURLEY, Idaho -- A 42-year-old Burley junior high teacher has been arrested on suspicion of pretending to be a 15-year-old boy to engage in online sexual conversations with a 14-year-old student. The Times-News reports that Michael S. Brinkerhoff was arrested last week on felony charges of sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 16 and enticing children over the internet. He is jailed on $50,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is set for Sept. 10. Prosecutors say Brinkerhoff allegedly told the girl that his nephew was moving to Burley and that he wanted to introduce the boy to some area teens via Facebook. Prosecutors say Burley posed as the fictitious boy and had graphic and sexual conversations with the girl online. Superintendent Gaylen Smyer says Brinkerhoff, an English and drama teacher, has been suspended with pay.
KTVB's Scott Evans & Troy Colson take a beautiful late summer balloon tour of Boise. Check out their photos! Also - click the items at right for more slideshows!
BOISE -- A helicopter carrying two people has made a safe landing in a hayfield near Boise after its engine quit during a flight. Boise's fire department says no one was hurt in the Wednesday afternoon emergency landing at the south end of So. Maple Grove Road. According to firefighters, the pilot said he was about 350 feet in the air when the chopper hit turbulence and the engine shut down. But the pilot was quickly able to get it started and managed to land safely. The Federal Aviation Administration in Boise was responding to the incident. EMMETT, Idaho -- An Emmett police officer whose gun was involved in an accidental shooting in her home that injured three people has been placed on administrative leave. Police Chief Steve Nebeker says Detective Sgt. Kim Judy was placed on leave Wednesday pending the results of an internal investigation into the Aug. 6 shooting. Nebeker has said the shooting injured Judy's roommate, 20-year-old Whisper Rowden, and two of Rowden's children. Investigators say Rowden's 3-year-old son somehow got a hold of Judy's 9mm service weapon and fired one shot that went through the boy's leg, through the hand of a 2-year-old and into Rowden's arm. IDAHO FALLS -- Bonneville County officials say a fishing guide from Driggs is missing after a boat flipped over in the Snake River near Swan Valley. Sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Edwards says three people were floating in a drift boat at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday when it hit some willow branches and flipped over, throwing all three into the river. A couple made it out, but the guide, a man in his mid-40s, has not been found. Officials searched near the Spring Creek Boat Ramp Wednesday evening and resumed the search Thursday morning. by Steph Larsen. There’s a clan of blood-sucking
Police: Boise man charged with felony DUI after driving drunk and then trying to run away from officers
Raymond S. Nienburg is being held in the Ada County Jail on a felony DUI
In a scene reminiscent of Boise's River Festival—which hasn't seen a sunrise since 2003—the early morning skies over Ann Morrison Park were filled with hot air balloons today. Promoters are calling the four-day event, "The Spirit of Boise Balloon Classic." More than 20 hot air balloon launched right about 7:45 a.m., giving commuters quite a pleasant reason to rubberneck, in a tip of the hat to the 100 year anniversary of flight in Idaho.… [ Read more ] |
