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Nevada, Utah investigators find few clues in ricin incident A man who lived for a time in Utah is in a Las Vegas hospital fighting for his life from possible exposure to the deadly poison ricin, amounts of which were found in the Las Vegas hotel room the man was staying in, but neither Nevada nor Utah officials have uncovered any clues on why the man had ricin. Salt Lake Tribune; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana communities' efforts revive public bus service Shelby and other communities in Toole, Glacier and Pondera counties were left without a public bus system to connect them to Great Falls and Kalispell when Trailways Bus Line ended service in 2005, but the communities wrote grants, did their research, and on Monday, a free public bus service began providing service between the Hi-Line communities and Great Falls and Kalispell. Great Falls Tribune; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Salt Lake City mayor cleans house at the Utah city's planning department Making good on his campaign vows, Salt Lake City Mayor has ousted the director of the Utah city's planning department, created one-stop shopping for permits, and is on the hunt for a new planning boss and a new community and economic-development director. Salt Lake Tribune; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Salt Lake City developer will buy Utah town's airport site St. George needs to build a new airport with longer runways to accommodate commercial jet service, and the Utah town has federal funding to help build the new airport, but it needed to sell the site of the current airport to help fund it's share of building the new one, and Salt Lake City-based Anderson Development Services Inc. won the bidding for the site with a bid worth $43.96 million. St. George Spectrum; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
Nevada tribes wait to see if U.S. Senate passes IHS medical bill The chairman of one American Indian tribe in Nevada said nearly 80 percent of the tribe's members will be dunned by credit agencies for medical bills that the federal government should have, but has not yet, paid, while legislation to provide funding for the Indian Health Services makes its way through the U.S. Senate. Reno Gazette-Journal; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah Senate passes bill to remove state as trustee of tribal funds Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. is opposed to legislation passed by the Utah Senate that would remove the state as trustee of tribal funds and that requests Congress to find another trustee for the funds. Salt Lake Tribune; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Former Crow housing director announces run for tribal chairman Burton Pretty On Top Sr., who served as the tribal housing director for the Crow tribe, announced he was running for tribal chairman and vowed to build 1,000 new homes on Crow land in Montana if elected. Billings Gazette; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Special election returns former N. Cheyenne president to post After the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe removed Eugene Little Coyote from the Montana tribe's presidential post, a special election was held and Geri Small, who served as president of the tribe from 2000 to 2004, was elected to the post. Billings Gazette; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
Study: Pronghorn antelope thrive in ecosystem with wolves A new study published in Ecology found that, since wolves were reintroduced into the Yellowstone ecosystem, the number of coyotes and elk have declined, but pronghorn antelope numbers have increased dramatically, due in part, to the fact that wolves tend to drive coyotes, which prey on pronghorn fawns, out of an area. Casper Star-Tribune (AP); March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Wyoming officials work to keep wildlife migration routes open A $900,000 detection system designed to alert motorists that antelope and deer are crossing a highway in western Wyoming is just one of the things the state has done to keep migration routes for the animals open. Casper Star-Tribune (AP); March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Group effort helps Montana national forest grow by 160 acres The Trust for Public Lands originally purchased a 160-acre parcel of land near the mouth of Skalkaho canyon in Montana's Bitterroot Valley, until the Bitterroot National Forest was able to obtain fund through the Land and Water Conservation Fund to buy the land. Ravalli Republic; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story California condors hatched in Oregon zoo may fly free in Arizona Three California condors hatched in the Oregon Zoo are in a pen in northern Arizona from which they are scheduled to be released on March 15 to join a flock of 65 condors living wild in northern Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. Portland Oregonian; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Anthropologist Jane Goodall shares her concerns at Utah event Jane Goodall was in Salt Lake City on Monday to promote her environmental program for youth, Roots & Shoots, and the famed anthropologist said her efforts to study chimpanzees has morphed into her efforts to save those primates now in danger from Africa's exploding population, deforestation of the Congo and the practice of killing chimpanzees for "bush meat." Salt Lake Tribune; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Alberta voters decide to stick with Premier Ed Stelmach Alberta's election Monday had the lowest voter turnout in the history of the Canadian province, but those who did vote, gave Progressive Conservative Premier Ed Stelmach a landslide victory. Edmonton Journal; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Group gives Utah government highest rating The Pew Center on States Government Performance Project for 2008 gave Utah an A- for its efforts on managing information, people, money and infrastructure; Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico and Wyoming each got a B-; and Colorado, Montana and Nevada earned a C+. Deseret News; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Former foe of federal government takes Nevada ag post Tony Lesperance, a Nevada rancher and former Elko County commissioner, who often tangled with federal land agencies a decade ago, said he knows he'll have to work with those agencies now that he is head of the Nevada Agriculture Department, but said he'll continue to work to ensure the state's interests are represented. Las Vegas Review-Journal; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
Arizona lawmakers do a U-turn on toll-road legislation A week after deciding to dump legislation that would allow local government to develop partnerships with private companies to build toll-roads, the Arizona Senate Finance Committee revived those bills and put them back on the agenda for consideration. Arizona Republic; March 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho Senate advances bill on climate change Three Republican members of the Idaho Senate Resources and Conservation Committee questioned the need for a resolution that asks the Office of Energy Resources and Department of Environmental Quality to come up with recommendations on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions, should the state ever wade into that arena of regulation, and to put a high priority on developing conservation and renewable resources in Idaho. Twin Falls Times-News; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Trio of bills address concerns of N. Idaho residents on water efforts Northern Idaho lawmakers are successfully rowing a trio of bills through the Legislature that make water adjudication efforts in their part of the state voluntary for domestic and stock-water rights holders, cut fees in half and remove Kootenai-Moyie River Basin from the state's adjudication effort. Idaho Statesman (AP); March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho House sends conservation tax credit bill on to the full House The House Revenue and Taxation Committee approved the Idaho Ranch, Farm and Forest Protection Act, which would provide up to $3 million annually in income tax credits to landowners who protect their land from development for more than 30 years; the bill now moves to the full House for consideration. Idaho Statesman (AP); March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes meet, talk about agenda for 2009 Montana Legislature Montana state Sen. Carol Juneau and Rep. Shannon Augare said they were pleased with the results of their policy roundtable that brought together tribal leaders from across the state to discuss issues for the 2009 legislative session. Great Falls Tribune; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah House vote sends anti-immigration legislation back to the Senate Legislation that would allow state law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws and require some employers to check the status of workers will go back to the Utah Senate for approval of amendments made by the House before moving to the governor's desk for action. Salt Lake Tribune; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Some Utah lawmakers are packing heat, and their lapel pin says it's so Many Utah lawmakers wear lapel pins, but the ones wearing a red oval pin with a gold, six-pointed star in the center are also carrying a concealed weapon. Salt Lake Tribune; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Economic lull leaves Arizona restaurants with empty tables Arizona restaurateurs said rising prices, a stalled economy and the state's new immigration rules have hit them with a triple whammy, and said business hasn't been this bad for two decades. Arizona Republic; March 3 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story CVS to buy 4 more stores in Montana CVS/pharmacy already owns the largest number of stores in the nation, and now it owns 12 stores in Montana, having purchased eight Osco Drugs in recent years, and currently closing on a deal to buy three Snyders Western Drug Stores in Billings and the Snyders in Laurel. Billings Gazette; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Micron: Idaho city next in line for new facility Micron Technology announced Monday that when the time is right for the technology firm to expand, its next facility will be built in Boise, but did not announce a timeline for the expansion. Idaho Statesman; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story N-power plant exec says Idaho utilities can have first dibs on electricity Don Gillispie, head of Alternate Energy Holdings, told the executives of Idaho's three major utilities, that if he's successful in building the state's first nuclear-power plant, that the companies will get the first chance to use the power produced at the Owyhee County plant. Twin Falls Times-News; March 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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