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Trump administration backs Idaho transgender sports ban

BOISE, Idaho – A recently passed Idaho law banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports – the first such law in the nation – received backing on Friday from the administration ...

DATE: Jun 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

Idaho State track athletes want transgender lawsuit tossed

BOISE, Idaho – Two female athletes at Idaho State University want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a new state law banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports,...

DATE: May 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Idaho moves closer to ban on transgender women in athletics

BOISE, Idaho – Idaho moved closer Wednesday to banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports despite warnings that such a law is unconstitutional and uncertainties about how the...

DATE: Feb 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Interior Department, states appeal sage grouse ruling

BOISE, Idaho – The Interior Department, Idaho and Wyoming are appealing a court ruling that halted a Trump administration plan to ease land-use restrictions in seven Western states that prot...

DATE: Dec 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Western governors want nuclear testing compensation expanded

Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing exposed more states and more people to radiation fallout and resulting cancers and other diseases than the federal government currently recognizes, Wester...

DATE: Oct 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Western governors: States not consulted about nuclear waste

BOISE, Idaho – Western governors said they are disappointed that the U.S. Department of Energy didn’t consult the states’ nuclear waste experts before releasing a five-year plan for a nuclea...

DATE: Oct 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Group sues U.S. for details about impact of grazing program

BOISE, Idaho – An environmental group said the U.S. government is keeping details secret about a cattle grazing program in six Western states that could be harming habitat and endangered spe...

DATE: Sep 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. expands hunting and fishing at national wildlife refuges

BOISE, Idaho – The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is expanding hunting and fishing in 77 national wildlife refuges in a move that critics contend is deferring management to states...

DATE: Sep 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Nuclear weapons waste compacted, shipped out of Idaho to New Mexico

BOISE, Idaho – Radioactive waste shipped to Idaho from a Midwestern nuclear weapons facility during the Cold War has been compacted and sent out of state for permanent disposal. A...

DATE: Jul 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Agencies boost efforts to stop wildland firefighter suicides

BOISE, Idaho – Shane Del Grosso spent some 30 summers crossing smoke-shrouded mountains and forests to fight increasingly devastating wildfires in the U.S. West. Toward the end, h...

DATE: Jul 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

US to shut down Idaho nuclear waste processing project

BOISE, Idaho – Federal officials will shut down an Idaho nuclear waste treatment project after determining it would not be economically feasible to bring in radioactive waste from other stat...

DATE: Dec 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Forest Service presents changes to sage grouse protections

Environmentalists criticize proposed Forest Service action

DATE: Oct 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News