1 day ago- Penalties and payments in a botched 2001-2002 northern Idaho highway project that sent tons of sediment into Lake Coeur d'Alene's Mica Bay have now topped at least $1.7 million after the state Transportation Department was forced pay another $325,000 fine for violations of the federal Clean Water Act.
3 days ago- An 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled it's improper for federal judges to act as scientists when weighing in on disputed U.S. Forest Service timber projects.
4 days ago- Federal fire managers predict an increase in severe wildfire activity in northern California through October due to unusually hot, dry weather and scant rain, but say areas like Idaho that were charred by fires last year may be in for a reprieve.
6 days ago- To help poor Afghani villagers make money on potatoes instead of opium poppies, Idaho farmer Pat Rowe used a little old technology: root cellars.
7 days ago- Sockeye salmon swimming up the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon in higher-than-expected numbers are spawning hope the fish will also make a mass return to Idaho.
8 days ago- To help poor Afghani villagers make money on potatoes instead of opium poppies, Idaho farmer Pat Rowe borrowed a root cellar design common across his home state's famous potato country in the 1930s and 1940s.