BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 26 -- The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news on Oct. 25, 2022: The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today announced the award of $6,650,000 in construction grants to four drinking water systems. These construction projects are funded from American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds that Governor Brad Little directed to DEQ in 2022. "Water is our most valuable resource, and we absolutely must keep up the infrastructure to ensure wat  more

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 29 -- The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news: The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is releasing an Idaho Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (IPDES) preliminary draft permit for the Brownlee Hydroelectric Power Plant. The facility has 10 days to review the preliminary draft permit and fact sheet for any errors and omissions that should be addressed before the public participation period. After the preliminary draft period ha  more

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 25 (TNSper) -- Gov. Brad Little, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on Oct. 24, 2022: Governor Brad Little announced today he appointed Caty Solace as executive director of the Idaho STEM Action Center. The Idaho STEM Action Center is an independent office guided by a nine-member Governor-appointed board established in 2015 through House Bill 302. The Center coordinates STEM education opportunities aligned to Idaho's workforce needs from pre-kindergarten to career.   more

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The Idaho Department of Education issued the following news release: The latest scores in the National Assessment for Education Progress (NAEP) provide some encouraging news for Idaho as schools continue working to boost student achievement in mathematics and reading. Nationwide, student scores have dropped since the NAEP assessments were last administered to fourthand eighth-graders in 2019. While Idaho scores also declined since 2019, they remain above natio  more

MOSCOW, Idaho, Oct. 27 (TNSjou) -- The University of Idaho issued the following news release: Political partisanship and party loyalty influence how much voters believe that Russian influence helped sway the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, according to new University of Idaho research. "What we find is that party identification colors whether a person thinks that Russia's interference campaign helped decide the election," said Florian Justwan, a U of I political science professor wh  more

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 25 -- The Idaho State Board of Education issued the following news release on Oct. 24, 2022: Idaho State Board of Education President Kurt Liebich is noting Idaho's COVID-19 era student performance reflected in the 2022 National Assessment for Education Progress (NAEP) results released today. The news cores are the first administered since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that Idaho students' performed at, or better than the national average, despite the  more

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 25 -- Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden issued the following news release: Attorney General Lawrence Wasden has announced Idaho has received more than $26 million in opioid settlement funds following the state's final 2022 payment last week. The money is being distributed to the state, regional health districts, cities and counties to fight the opioid addiction epidemic. The money comes from three settlements and one bankruptcy. Idaho anticipates receiving a total of $1  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, Oct. 28 -- The Washington State Department of Revenue issued the following news release on Oct. 27, 2022: The city of Asotin today is the newest partner of the Department of Revenue's Business Licensing Service (BLS). With a population of 1,200 residents, Asotin is just south of Clarkston, Washington, and Lewiston, Idaho on the banks of the Snake River in southeast Washington. Asotin's local businesses can now use the same local licensing solution used in Pullman, Walla   more