Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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| • Initial probe blames overheating for Oregon sea lion deaths |
| PORTLAND, Ore. -- The deaths of federally protected sea lions found in traps at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River may be due to overheating. |
| • 107-year-old WWI veteran renews Canadian citizenship |
| SPOKANE, Wash. -- The last known surviving Canadian veteran of World War I is a Canadian citizen once again. |
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 |
| • Exam shows Columbia River sea lions weren't shot to death |
| PORTLAND, Ore. -- Federal officials did an about-face Wednesday in an investigation of the deaths of six sea lions at Bonneville Dam, saying their initial assumption that the animals had been shot to death was wrong. |
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 |
| • Fishermen suspected after 6 sea lions are killed in Oregon |
| PORTLAND, Ore. -- There's "protected" on paper and there's "protected" on the river. Under a 1972 federal law, certain species of sea lion cannot be harmed. But the Columbia River region is big enough, and parts of it are wild and isolated enough, to hide many sins. That was clear over the weekend, when six protected sea lions were found shot to death with a high-powered rifle near the Bonneville Dam. |
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| • Scientist getting Nevada award challenges governor |
| CARSON CITY, Nev. -- An internationally known scientist getting the annual Nevada Medal for his work on climate change has challenged Gov. Jim Gibbons on his support for new coal-fired power plants in the state. |
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 |
| • Group offers ranchers compensation for wolves in Wyoming |
| LANDER, Wyo. -- A conservation group is hoping to entice more Wyoming stockgrowers to participate in its compensation program for livestock killed by wolves if stockgrowers undertake measures to help prevent conflicts between the two animals. |
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
| • Eli Lilly pays $15 million to settle Alaska lawsuit |
| ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Eli Lilly and Co. and Alaska announced a $15 million settlement Wednesday in the state's lawsuit over the use of the drug Zyprexa in its Medicaid program. |
| • Park County asks CBI to join probe into bison slayings |
| FAIRPLAY, Colo. -- Park County authorities have asked the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to join the investigation into the slaying of 32 bison from a private ranch south of here. |
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| • Court requires feds to remove buried waste at INL |
The Associated Press TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- A federal appeals court has upheld an earlier federal district court decision that requires the U.S. Department of Energy to clean up buried nuclear waste at the Idaho National Laboratory. |
| • Senate committee backs plan to change Idaho's open primary |
| BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho voters could face a new form of primary election in 2010 under a proposal designed to resolve a battle over restricting Republican primary elections to GOP-registered voters. |
Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| • Rammell files as independent, says Risch is 'too old' for Senate |
| BOISE -- Former elk rancher Rex Rammell has shed his Republican ties and will run for the U.S. Senate as an independent because he says his former party has anointed Lt. Gov. Jim Risch as its chosen candidate. |
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
| • Agency OKs killing some Bonneville Dam sea lions |
| PORTLAND, Ore. -- State and federal officials say they have done all they can to stop protected California sea lions from munching on threatened salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, using pyrotechnics, beanbag rounds fired from shotguns and traps. |
| • More than 400 battle eastern Sierras blaze; 1,400 acres burned |
| BISHOP, Calif. -- More than 400 people are battling a wildfire in rural Inyo County. |
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
| • Committee backs bill to phase out business equipment tax |
| BOISE, Idaho -- A bill to eliminate as much as $120 million annually in taxes on business equipment cleared a legislative committee Wednesday. |
Friday, February 22, 2008 |
| • Alaska U.S. Sen. Stevens files for re-election |
| ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in Senate history, filed for re-election Thursday. |
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 |
| • Timber industry loses another round in old growth forest battle |
| GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- The timber industry has lost the latest round in the long-running court fight over the marbled murrelet, one of several threatened species that were targets of political pressure by the Bush administration. |
Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| • Professors work to keep students from drinking too much |
| FRESNO, Calif. -- Forty professors at Fresno State have taken a pledge about booze -- not to abstain, but to watch what they say in classrooms about drinking. |
| • Ore. Judge again extends deadline for salmon plan |
| PORTLAND, Ore. -- U.S. District Judge James Redden has postponed for a second time a deadline for a plan that meets his standards for balancing operations of Columbia Basin dams with threatened or endangered fish runs. |
| • I-90 closed through Snoqualmie Pass by avalanche danger |
| SPOKANE, Wash. -- High avalanche danger kept the state's main east-west highway closed across the Cascade Range on Thursday even as windblown snow closed more roads and schools in Eastern Washington. |
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| • Officials warn of salmon population "collapse" |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The state's largest salmon run is suffering an "unprecedented collapse," part of a broader decline throughout the West that has scientists vexed and will likely trigger severe fishing restrictions, according to federal fishery regulators. |
| • WA bill aimed at stopping school officers from using handcuffs |
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SEATTLE (AP) -- Could your child be handcuffed for talking back to a school security officer or for acting or looking like a drug user? The answer could be yes, if you live in a school district where security guards are allowed to carry handcuffs and pepper spray or Tasers. |
Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| • Otter selling private prison plan; skeptics fear loss of control |
BOISE, Idaho -- Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter Wednesday began selling a plan to lawmakers to let prison companies own and operate for-profit lockups in Idaho, arguing it's better for corporations to pay upfront costs of housing a growing inmate population than it is for the state to sell bonds for such projects, like it's done in the past. |
| • First BLM cattle seizures for trespassing Nevada since 2002 |
| RENO, Nev. -- Federal agents seized more than 100 cattle and jailed a 66-year-old woman who owns some of them in the first U.S. criminal or civil enforcement action in five years against Nevada ranchers accused of trespassing livestock on public land. |
| • New Idaho Falls police unit serving 100s of outstanding warrants |
| IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- The Idaho Falls Police Department has reinstated its two-person team to locate people with outstanding warrants after disbanding it last summer due to staff shortages. |
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 |
| • ID bighorn plan could mean more wild sheep would be killed |
| BOISE, Idaho -- Trying to keep the management of bighorn sheep and domestic sheep out of federal courts, an Idaho plan to prevent the two species from mingling calls for the killing of both bighorns and domestic sheep that enter "sheep free" zones. |
| • Last full-blooded Eyak and fluent speaker of Native language dies |
| ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Chief Marie Smith Jones, the last full-blooded Eyak and the last person fluent in her Native language, died at her home in Anchorage. She was 89. |
| • Bush, Congressional Leaders, Near Stimulus Deal |
| WASHINGTON -- President Bush and congressional leaders moved closer to agreeing on a compromise economic rescue package Tuesday, fending off fresh protests from both the right and the left as they rushed to respond to a cascading series of economic troubles and head off a potential recession. |
Thursday, January 17, 2008 |
| • NOAA favors killing some protected sea lions at Bonneville Dam |
| PORTLAND, Ore. -- A federal agency recommends killing about 30 sea lions a year at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River to keep them from eating salmon and steelhead. |
| • Black bear undergoes facial reconstruction surgery |
| GARDEN CITY, Idaho -- A 3-year-old male black bear has undergone facial reconstruction surgery to close a gunshot wound, and could be released back into the wild later this year. |
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| • La Nina has Idaho water experts hopeful for 2008 water year |
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Mountain ranges all across Idaho have received some hefty snowpack down payments in recent weeks to help make up for a water deficit created by years of drought. |
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