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Idaho water manager: Reservoir levels good, but not good enough Water levels in Southern Idaho's reservoirs are about average this year, but water managers said it's too early to get optimistic about next year's water supply as a dry winter could have a considerable impact. Idaho Statesman; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Refinery explosion damages home in Utah city An explosion Wednesday morning at the Silver Eagle Refinery in Salt Lake City damaging a dozen or so nearby homes; it was the second explosion at the Utah refinery this year. Salt Lake Tribune; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho judge allows Tamarack homeowners to join foreclosure suit Idaho District Court Judge Patrick Owen ruled Tuesday that nine homeowners in the Tamarack development can join the foreclosure action against the resort, but declined to entertain their plan to use cash from a Mexican real-estate investor to open the resort for ski season. Denver Post (AP); Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Colorado town gets Vail Resorts' application for 'Ever Vail' Vail Resorts' proposed $1 billion Ever Vail project has been in the pipeline for two years, and on Wednesday, the company submitted its application for the project to Vail, a first step of many in the Colorado development's march to build. Vail Daily; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho Supreme Court hears arguments on county's CAFO rules Idaho Supreme Court justices heard arguments on Gooding County's regulations of confined animal feeding operations, and the decision on that case, which is expected within the next few months, could have statewide impact. Twin Falls Times-News; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana students gobble up healthy snacks funded by grant Bryant Elementary School in Helena is one of 70 schools in Montana that are sharing a $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide healthy snacks to students, and Bryant students have enthusiastically gobbled up the vegetable and fruit snacks. Helena Independent Record; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana students' 'EcoChallenge' project targets noxious weeds This year's crop of seventh-grade students at Holy Spirit School in Montana decided that their project for the Scholastic Lexus Eco Challenge, a nationwide program to promote teens' interest in environmental projects, would target leafy spurge and spotted knapweed, two noxious weeds in the state that are gaining ground at an alarming rate. Great Falls Tribune; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
Yellowstone Park posts results of August's 'bio-blitz' One day last August, some 125 scientists and volunteers spent 24 hours in Yellowstone National Park, cataloging each and every life form they encountered, and they totaled up 1,200 such life forms--including some that had never been known to exist in the park. Billings Gazette (AP); Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story USFS defers Montana project for further grizzly bear study Gallatin National Forest officials put off fuels-reduction work on a 3,100-acre parcel of land in the Montana forest near West Yellowstone to further analyze the effect of the work on grizzly bears and said the recent return of the species to federal protection prompted their decision. Billings Gazette; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Hard-to-find Arizona lizard again considered for federal protection The flat-tailed horned lizard once claimed large swaths of the Colorado and Sonoran deserts in Arizona and California, and has been the subject of federal endangered species litigation for nearly two decades, and a federal judge in Arizona recently reinstated a 1993 decision to list the hard-to-find lizard as a threatened species. Los Angeles Times; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Chronic-wasting disease found in new area of Wyoming Wyoming Game and Fish Department officials said a mule deer killed Oct. 15 in the Spring Creek Drainage near Ten Sleep had chronic-wasting disease, the first time the neurological disease that's deadly to deer, elk and moose has been found in that deer-hunt area of the Big Horn Basin. Billings Gazette; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Utah governor hires Democrat as adviser on land, enviro issues Ted Wilson, a Democrat and ardent champion of wilderness, has been hired by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to advise him on land and energy-resource issues. Salt Lake Tribune; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Voters in 3 Idaho counties reject jail bond measures Measures on the ballots in Kootenai, Jerome and Canyon counties in Idaho to build or expand jail facilities all failed on Tuesday. Idaho Statesman; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah AG pulls out of race for U.S. Senate Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who many considered the strongest Republican candidate to challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Bob Bennett, announced that he was withdrawing from the race for personal reasons. Salt Lake Tribune; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Voters expand Wyoming county's commission Voters in Sweetwater County approved on a 3-to-1 margin a ballot measure that expands the Wyoming county's commission from three commissioners to five. Casper Star-Tribune; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
Report: Montana tax revenues lower than last year's A new report said that, for the first four months of the budget year, Montana's tax revenues are not only lower than those for the same period last year, but lower, too, than the Legislature's projections. Missoulian; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Health insurers blame Colorado law for premium increase In letters to small-business owners in Colorado, health insurers said a law passed in 2007 that won't let them charge small businesses more for unhealthy workers forced them to raise rates substantially. Denver Post; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Trailer manufacturer adds jobs at Idaho plant Jayco Inc., which manufactures recreational trailers, said strong sales during the third and fourth quarters of 2009, allows them to ramp up production at its facilities in Twin Falls, with plans to hire 30 more employees in Idaho. Twin Falls Times-News; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Colorado-based Quark says new product will create 500 jobs Denver-based Quark said its new software, Quark Promote, designed to help small businesses and individuals self-create marketing products, could add 500 new jobs to Colorado's economy. Denver Post; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Chase Card to close call center in B.C., move some jobs to Ottawa Delaware-based Chase Card Services, the credit card division of AJPMorgan Chase, announced that it would close its call center in Vancouver, B.C., and move some of the 675 jobs at that center to its call center in Ottawa. Vancouver Sun; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story High gold prices boost Nevada's bottom line Gold production represents 81.5 percent of Nevada's gross proceeds of mineral production, and with the precious metal's price remaining in record territory, the state will see a nice increase in revenue from the gold industry. Elko Daily Free Press; Nov. 5 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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