Idaho News

Officials with Boise wind-farm developer Exergy Development Group say the company plans to build 14 new wind farms this year in southern Idaho.

Americans will celebrate the country's birthday this year in the midst of a brutal recession and rampant unemployment.

As summer activities take Idahoans into the great outdoors, health experts are raising awareness about skin cancer rates.

Idaho businesses hired fewer people last month than they have during June for the last decade, pushing the forecasted seasonally adjusted unemployment rate up another half percentage point to 8.3 percent.

Once again, would-be ex-smokers can request free nicotine patches, gum and lozenges from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare's Project Filter.

The national recession not only reduced migration to Idaho from other states and countries in 2008, but it slowed the exodus of people from Idaho's rural communities, new U.S. Census Bureau estimates indicate.

Lawmakers met on how to shift $22 million from Idaho's gas tax that now pays for state troopers and Department of Parks and Recreation programs to road maintenance in July 2010.

Exergy Development Group will begin this summer to build 14 wind parks across southern Idaho that will produce 228 megawatts of electricity and put Idaho in the top 20 states for wind power.

The Idaho Repertory Theatre's 2009 season runs July 1 through Aug. 8 with a variety of summer plays and other productions performed and produced by university theatre majors and visitors.

Police in northcentral Idaho are treating the death of a pregnant school teacher found in her charred duplex as a murder after concluding she died before the blaze consumed her home.

Alternative Energy Holdings Inc.'s proposed nuclear facility planned for construction on Idaho's Snake River has met with local opposition, though Elmore County Commissioners are now attempting to change their county zoning laws to enable the plant's construction.. The latest proposal from Alternative Energy Holdings Inc.

The Idaho attorney general said the city of Lewiston has been using inmate labor in violation of public works contractor laws and wants the practice stopped.

Idaho pollster Greg Smith today released results of a new poll, conducted June 15-18 of 400 randomly selected Idahoans 18 or older, and found that U.S. Sens.

More people in Idaho are getting help from the state in the form of food stamps.

Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch are among those urging Congress to act quickly on comprehensive energy legislation.

An Idaho woman who gave birth in a Ford Ranger pickup truck - parked in the driveway of the midwifery center where the child was supposed to be delivered - says her baby boy will have "the best birthday story." Ashley Nielson says her water broke around 11 p.m. on June 12 and the baby started to emerge several minutes later as she was being driven ...

Fruit growers and others in southwest Idaho upset over the University of Idaho's plan to close it's Parma Research Extension Center say they may take action to get the decision reversed.

The Idaho Transportation Department says the state could save tens of millions of dollars because bids on federal stimulus-funded highway projects are coming in lower than expected.

An official with the federal Census Bureau in Idaho says each resident counted in 2010 will bring in about $300 to the state each year, for the next 10 years, for various programs.

In Hawaii, state employees are bracing for furloughs of three days a month over the next two years, the equivalent of a 14 percent pay cut.