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Scientists offer prize to stop invasive mussels
Statesman Journal - Oregon
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The invasive quagga and zebra mussels have a $100,000 bounty on their "heads." The U.S. government is offering the six-figure prize for the best suggestion on how to stop their relentless and destructive spread because...
School Choice: An ongoing journey for one Idaho family
Idaho Education News - Idaho
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July 8, 2025
This begins a series of stories featuring families who choose different ways to educate their children, from charter to traditional to home and private schools. Contact us if you’d like to share your story. Over the past five years, Leah Mong has...
Scientists to fly drone to reseed Glendale Fire burn area
Idaho Mountain Express
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The Glendale Fire burned 7,550 acres in the southern Wood River Valley in 2024, including about 2,000 acres in Rinker Rock Creek Ranch and 2,000 acres of adjacent U.S. Bureau of Land Management land where the ranch grazes cattle. Researchers at...
Idaho Cleanup Project completes spent nuclear fuel project
KIFI Local News 8 - Idaho
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July 3, 2025
The following is a press release from the Idaho Environmental Coalition: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) crews recently completed a significant achievement by successfully transferring 40 spent nuclear fuel baskets into...
Cyber Escape Rooms: Inside INL's Pioneering Training to Protect Industrial Control Systems
Newswise
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July 15, 2025
Newswise — As manufacturers and utilities recognize their automated systems are vulnerable to hackers, the Idaho National Laboratory’s cyber escape rooms have become a go-to training resource for cybersecurity organizations around the world. INL...
U of I reapplies for $59 million federal ag research grant
Idaho Education News - Idaho
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July 7, 2025
The University of Idaho is hoping to resurrect the largest federal grant in its history. The U of I has reapplied for $59 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to pilot climate-friendly farming practices. When the U of I received the...
Idaho Downwinders on track for compensation of impacts from nuclear fallout
ABC 6 - Idaho
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July 3, 2025
EMMETT, Idaho — The fight may be close to over for compensation for Idaho Downwinders after decades of suffering the effects of nuclear fallout. But that fight may not be over for everyone. I spoke with a leader of the movement to see what's next....
2024 H-1B petitions: Approvals for employers classified under Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation industry across East Idaho Times publication area
East Idaho Times
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July 8, 2025
Ur Mendoza Jaddou, Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (left) and Jennifer B. Higgins, Deputy Director. | https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/organization/leadershipUr Mendoza Jaddou, Director of the U.S. Citizenship and...
Big box construction undergoes major transformation as Idaho’s market surges
Idaho Business Review
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July 7, 2025
Idaho’s commercial construction industry is experiencing dramatic growth, with big box retailers and industrial developers embracing sustainability, automation and flexible design strategies that represent a fundamental shift from traditional...
Stripe rust found in eastern Idaho wheat field
Capital Press - Oregon
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July 7, 2025
Published 1:08 pm Monday, July 7, 2025 Stripe rust has been found in a Monteview-area farmer’s field of UI Gold, a hard white spring wheat variety. (Courtesy Idaho Wheat Commission) University of Idaho cereals pathology and agronomy researcher...
Idaho maker of fries for McDonald’s faces big change forced by activist investor
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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BOISE – An activist investment partnership just scored a victory in its effort to shake up a struggling Idaho french-fry maker. First, the investment group built a stake in the company. Then it forced the CEO to step aside. Now it has won the...
In Boise, Idaho, a political game of capture the flag
The Missoula Current - Montana
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July 7, 2025
Carson McCullough BOISE, Idaho (CN) — The Pride flag has long fluttered in Boise, where it decorates storefront windows and lies draped from apartment balconies. A safe haven for liberals in one of the reddest states in the country, Boise has for...
Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho
The Register
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The new nuclear age of small modular reactors may not have materialized yet, but that's not stopping the US Department of Energy from getting to work on even smaller, more modular reactors with a couple of new commercial partners. Earlier this...
Historic preservation gets greener as new materials transform Idaho’s restoration market
Idaho Business Review
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July 7, 2025
Key Highlights Idaho restoration projects are embracing sustainable building materials Energy-efficient upgrades maintain historic integrity and reduce waste Economic drivers like tax credits and rising energy costs fuel interest Advanced tech...
'Big Beautiful Bill' expands radiation exposure benefits for downwinders in Utah, Idaho, New Mexico
Cache Valley Daily - Utah
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – From a liberal perspective, one of the few bright spots in the controversial budget bill passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump on July 4 is that fact that the new law includes the largest-ever expansion of...
How many H-1B petitions approved for employers classified under the Health Care and Social Assistance industry in Boise City Wire publication area during 2024?
Boise City Wire - Idaho
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July 7, 2025
Ur Mendoza Jaddou, Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. | https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/organization/leadership/ur-m-jaddou-director-us-citizenship-and-immigration-servicesUr Mendoza Jaddou, Director of the U.S. Citizenship...
Idaho Murder Case: Prosecutors Lay Out Gruesome Details of Killings
E! News - California
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July 2, 2025
Who Were Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle? Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20, were University of Idaho students who lived in an off-campus apartment. On...
House Republicans renew fight against Yellowstone griz protection
The Missoula Current - Montana
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July 16, 2025
Joe Dobson WASHINGTON (CN) — The House Committee on Natural Resources considered a bill Tuesday from U.S. Representative Harriet Hageman that would remove Endangered Species Act protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears and shield the delisting...
Idaho Power 20-Year Plan Aims to Add 2.15 GW of RE Capacity
Rigzone
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July 2, 2025
Idaho Power Co. has filed a new 20-year plan that favors cleaner electricity to meet surging demand in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. The 2026-45 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) would add about 2.15 gigawatts of renewables-sourced generation:...
Op-Ed: Good and bad news on the Washington ferries deal
The Center Square
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July 16, 2025
Taxpayers across Washington state have had a rough go as of late. New gas taxes, increased capital gains income taxes, and higher B&O taxes are hitting the wallets of many across the Evergreen State. That’s why it was overall good news when state...