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N. Idaho's Sunshine Mine to change hands
- The famed Sunshine Mine in northern Idaho is changing hands, as Canadian mining company Minco Silver Corp. said Wednesday it will pay $62.3 million for the mine's owner, Sterling Mining Co.
Famous...barley? Idaho farmers cut potato acres
- Potato farmers in Idaho and elsewhere in the United States have cut acreage by nearly 10 percent this year and are instead planting more corn, wheat and barley to take advantage of escalating grain prices and to avoid a market-crunching spud glut.
Idaho officials, wolf advocates react to ruling
- After a federal judge restored Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains, Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and other state and federal officials criticized the decision while advocates for the predator reacted with joy.
EPA slaps ITD with new fine, bringing payments to $1.7 mln
- 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.