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6 hrs ago | KIFI

14 new wind farms planned for southern Idaho

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

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

KBCI CBS 2

Idahoans hope July 4 will lift national spirits

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

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

KIVI-TV Nampa

Experts Warn of Idaho's Skin Cancer Rates

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

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Related Topix: Skin Cancer, Medicine, Idaho Government, Health

Thu Jul 02, 2009

KIVI

Weak June Hiring Sends Jobless Rate to 25-Year High

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.

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Related Topix: Canyon County, ID

KTVB Boise

Idaho again offers help to smokers looking to quit

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.

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Related Topix: Idaho Government, Smoking, Medicine, Health

Wed Jul 01, 2009

KIFI Idaho Falls

Recession Slows Migration from Rural Communities

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.

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Related Topix: Boise, ID, Bonners Ferry, ID

Tue Jun 30, 2009

KTVB Boise

Lawmakers disuss $22M shift for ISP, Parks & Recreation

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.

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Related Topix: Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, C. Otter, US News

McClatchy DC

Boise firm adds wind parks in Idaho

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.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Mon Jun 29, 2009

The Latah Eagle

Idaho Repertory Theatre begins summer season July 1

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.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

Sun Jun 28, 2009

KIVI

Pregnant women's death after fire ruled murder

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.

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Rogue Valley IMC

Nuclear Plant on Idaho's Snake River Delayed

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.

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Energy, Elmore County, ID

Sat Jun 27, 2009

KIVI

Idaho AG tells Lewiston to stop using inmate labor

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.

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Spokesman Review

New Smith poll: Idahoans high on Risch, Crapo, Simpson and Minnick - less so on Otter

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Representative Walt Minnick, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, C. Otter, Democrat, Idaho Government

Fri Jun 26, 2009

KPVI-TV Pocatello

More Idahoans Now Eligible for Food Stamps

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

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Related Topix: Idaho Government

Thu Jun 25, 2009

KTVB Boise

Idaho senators urge passage of reliable energy bill

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

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Mike Crapo, Michael Crapo, Idaho Government

Wed Jun 24, 2009

KPVI-TV Pocatello

Idaho woman gives birth on way to midwifery center

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 ...

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

KIVI-TV Nampa

Fruit growers, others fight UI center closure

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.

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Related Topix: University of Idaho

Mon Jun 22, 2009

KIFI

Bids lower than expected for Idaho road projects

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.

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Related Topix: Idaho Government

KIVI-TV Nampa

Census officials in Idaho lay groundwork for count

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.

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National News

States struggle with budgets

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.

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Related Topix: Idaho Government, California, California Government, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wisconsin Government, Wisconsin, Kentucky Government, Kentucky

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