BOISE, Idaho, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public nominations for positions on the Idaho Resource Advisory Council (RAC). This 15-member citizen-based RAC assists in the development of recommendations that address public land management issues throughout Idaho. BLM RACs are chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act and the Federal Policy and Lan  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on March 7, 2024, entitled "Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization in Idaho - 2023": * * * In 2023, the broadest measure of labor underutilization, designated U-6 (which includes the unemployed, workers employed part-time for economic reasons, and those marginally attached to the labor force), was 6.5 percent in Idaho  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, March 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release on March 4, 2024: Throughout its 75 years, Idaho National Laboratory's ranks have been filled with multi-generational family members, many of them cases of the apple not falling far from the tree. For Rob and Alyssa Spence, however, the fact that both work at INL's Advanced Test Reactor today is where the coincidence ends. When Alyssa was getting ready to graduate from Un  more

BOISE, Idaho, March 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho issued the following new release on March 8, 2024: Randy Scott Vail, 59, of Meridian, pleaded guilty to destruction of an energy facility in Idaho, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today. According to court records, on June 8, 2023, and continuing into June 9, 2023, Vail shot at the Hells Canyon Dam hydroelectric power station and the Brownlee Dam hydroelectric power station causing power loss and substantial  more

BOISE, Idaho, March 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho issued the following new release: Tanner Lee Goforth, 37, of Nampa, pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl after selling a co-worker fentanyl that led to his overdose death, announced U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit today. According to court records, on May 17, 2022, Goforth met his friend and co-worker, the victim, at a local gas station where Goforth sold the victim 10 fentanyl pills. The victim went home, inges  more

BOISE, Idaho, March 9 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Walla Walla District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Walla Walla District expects flood risk management releases from Lucky Peak Dam will begin later this month or early April. Snowpack in the Boise River basin as of March 7 is 102% of median, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The Boise River reservoir system, which includes Anderson Ranch Dam, Arrowrock Dam and Lucky Peak Dam,   more