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IdahoBOISEMonsanto aims to stop leaks at Idaho mine dump
Monsanto Co. is installing a water management system at an Idaho phosphate mine the company depends on to make its Roundup weedkiller to stop the leakage of selenium and heavy metals into a tributary of the Blackfoot River.The company hopes capturing runoff and underground water will remedy problems at the waste rock dump below its South Rasmussen Ridge Mine that have resulted in Clean Water Act violation notices from the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
BOISEIdaho gets $115,000 from Sanofi-Aventis settlement
Idaho's Medicaid Division is getting nearly $115,000 as its share from a nationwide settlement with French drug giant Sanofi-Aventis.Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said Thursday the settlement resolves allegations that the company's Aventis Pharmaceutical unit knowingly misreported the lowest prices for three nasal sprays, Azmacort, Nasacort and Nasacort AQ.
BOISEIdaho schools face cuts, agencies face elimination
Two months before the 2010 Idaho Legislature convenes, the session's bitter tenor is set: Public education funding is due to be slashed again and state agencies now scraping to get by could be eliminated to help cover a remaining $52 million budget shortfall.Speaking Wednesday at the Associated Taxpayers of Idaho annual conference in Boise, Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter ruled out an income tax increase, including a hike on those earning more than $50,000 suggested last week by a minority Democrat.
BOISEMelaleuca sues Utah company for raiding staff
Idaho health and home products company Melaleuca Inc. accuses a Utah company of raiding some of its top sales staff, infringing on company trade secrets and competing unfairly.Idaho Falls-based Melaleuca filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against Max International, its top sales executive and dozens of former Melaleuca sales executives.
BOISEIdaho to pay $50K to settle grazing lease lawsuit
Idaho agreed Tuesday to pay $50,000 and pledged to follow anti-discrimination rules to settle a federal lawsuit against state officials who awarded grazing leases to ranchers, not the environmentalist who had offered more money.The Idaho Board of Land has also committed to revising its rules to allow conservation groups to lease state endowment trust lands, a big change after years of fierce litigation. The board's five members are the governor, state controller, secretary of state, attorney general and superintendent of public instruction.
SANDPOINTColdwater Creek finance chief resigning
Coldwater Creek Inc. said Tuesday that its chief financial officer, Tim Martin, resigned to take a job at another company.Martin's resignation is effective Nov. 25. John E. Hayes III, the current general counsel of Coldwater, will take over as interim chief financial officer until a permanent replacement is named.
DRIGGSIdaho boy, 11, shoots black bear on family's porch
An 11-year-old boy shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave. The boy was at his home near Driggs, just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border, with his younger sisters last Wednesday when the bear showed up. The youngster said he couldn't shoo it away, so he went and got his gun and shot it.Black bears in the area have prompted multiple complaint calls, largely because they've been hanging around a transfer station.
DRIGGSIdaho boy kills bear that wouldn't leave porch
An 11-year-old Idaho boy fatally shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave.The boy was at his home near Driggs, just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border, with his younger sisters last Wednesday when the bear showed up. He says he couldn't shoo the animal away, so he went and got a gun and shot it.
BOISEBoise State QB Kellen Moore: Heisman hopeful?
Kellen Moore grew up in sparsely populated central Washington. Now he is out here in Idaho, still way off Broadway.No wonder he has never been to New York.
BOISEBoise St. QB Kellen Moore: Heisman hopeful?
Kellen Moore grew up in sparsely populated central Washington. Now he is out here in Idaho, still way off Broadway.No wonder he has never been to New York.
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