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Canadian energy company to build interchange at Alberta oilsands site Suncor Energy officials said that their decision to build a $55-million interchange on an increasingly congested highway near the company's oilsands operations near Fort McMurray, and hand over ownership to Alberta with no strings attached, was merely meeting the responsibilities imposed by the Highway Act, which makes access the developer's responsibility. Toronto Financial Post; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Nine school districts in SW Colorado mull education consortium School districts from Durango, Bayfield, Ignacio, Montezuma-Cortez, Archuleta County, Dolores, Silverton, Mancos and Dove Creek are working with Pueblo Community College, San Juan Basin Technical College and San Juan College in Farmington to create a regional consortium on technical and career education that would allow smaller districts to offer courses usually offered only in larger districts. Durango Herald; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
U. of Utah returns federal grants for American Indian programs University of Utah officials said it would cost the university too much to support the $1.1 million grant received in July to train American Indian math and science teachers and the nearly $1 million grant to train teachers in the Four Corners area, so they returned the federal grants, but the director of the university's American Indian Teacher Training Program said the decision suggested a lack of commitment to the program. Salt Lake Tribune; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Dozens attend tribal ceremony in Montana to honor bison Led by Lakota Chief Arvol Looking Horse, about 100 people gathered at the Stephens Creek bison-holding facility near Gardiner to participate in a ceremony to honor the bison captured and slaughtered in Montana after they wandered out of Yellowstone National Park this winter. Bozeman Daily Chronicle; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
CNN founder walks the talk on environment, philanthropic issues Ted Turner, part-time Montana resident and eminently quotable, full-time philanthropist, spends his time raising bison for his chain of restaurants and funding causes he feels are important including world hunger, endangered species and the environment. Another in a series about wealth and change in Montana. Bozeman Daily Chronicle; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story New Mexico wildfire now at 200 acres The Triago Wildfire on the west slopes of the Manzano Mountains in New Mexico ignited Tuesday, and as of this morning had reportedly burned 200 acres. You may have to view an ad to read this article. Albuquerque Tribune; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story
Kevin Lynott, the manager of Massacre Rocks State Park in eastern Idaho, said he believes allowing grazing in the park would help restore grasslands there, but an official of the state Transportation Department which owns 335 acres within the park, opposes the plan. Idaho Statesman (Idaho State Journal); April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Colorado asks court to halt pipeline project on Roan Plateau Colorado Attorney General John Suthers asked the Garfield County District Court to issue an injunction to halt work on a 50-mile long natural-gas pipeline on the Roan Plateau because the companies working on the project have failed to meet the state's requirements on controlling run-off which the state said allowed sediment to enter waterways. Denver Post; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story BLM investigation on wild horse deaths in Nevada continues Bureau of Land Management officials continue their investigation into the cause of the nitrate toxicity that killed 71 wild horses near a watering hole at the Tonopah Test Range, and said a final report on their investigation would be released by July 2. Las Vegas Review-Journal; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
House to vote on bill to extend Utah gun law to all states Under the provisions of the Secure Access to Firearms Enhancement Act sponsored by Utah Congressman Chris Cannon, the 17 states who have yet to honor Utah's concealed-weapon permit would have to honor the Utah permit or another issued by the carrier's home state. Salt Lake Tribune; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Texas inmate jumps through the hoops, gets on Idaho ballot Idaho Democrats will have three presidential candidates to choose from when they vote in the state's May 27 primary: Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama, and Keith Russell Judd, who's doing time in a Texas prison. Spokane Spokesman-Review; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Resigning member of Colorado's Club 20 suggests renaming it Club 19 Colorado's Club 20 is a consortium of local governments, tribes and business interests in 22 counties in Western Colorado, but San Miguel County Commissioner Art Goodtimes said the group has been co-opted by the energy industry and resigned from the advocacy group, a charge remaining members of the organization denied. Grand Junction Sentinel; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
Idaho governor vetoes repeal of R&D tax credit for businesses Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter said he vetoed legislation passed that would have repealed a 5 percent tax credit for business research and development because he said repealing that tax credit at a time when the state agreed to limit personal property taxes sends a confusing economic signal. Idaho Statesman; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Delta, Northwest execs take merger show on the road Top executives of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines made their pitch on Tuesday that a proposed merger of the two airlines, which would create the world's largest airline, and basing it in Atlanta was a good idea, but Wall Street responded to the proposal with a drop in both airlines' stocks. Salt Lake Tribune; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story United-Continental may be next in line for consolidation As the merger of Northwest Airlines and Delta Air lines appeared to be taking off, speculation is high that United and Continental may soon join forces. Denver Post; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Author discounts company's claim about gold in N.M. mountains Albuquerque-based Santa Fe Gold Corp. has leased 57,000 acres of mineral rights in the Ortiz Mountains south of Madrid, and said that new data for that region of New Mexico suggests there may be 2 million ounces of recoverable gold that could be pulled out of the ground, but a local author who wrote a book about gold mining in that area said he's skeptical about the company's claims. Santa Fe New Mexican; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story RealyTrac: Idaho foreclosures dropped a bit in March The California-based company that tracks foreclosures across the nation said that foreclosure filings in Idaho fell 15 percent in March from the previous month's numbers, but that the 657 foreclosures recorded last month was still 85 percent higher than recorded in March, 2007. Idaho Statesman; April 16 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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