SEATTLE, Washington, Jan. 14 -- Comagine Health issued the following news release: * * * - New initiative is poised to transform the health care system * * * Comagine Health recently launched the Partnership to Reimagine Health Care and is inviting health care organizations in Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington to join this initiative. This 5-year program is focused on working with long-term and post-acute care providers, health systems, hospitals, primary care and specia  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The Defenders of Wildlife issued the following news: Twenty-five years ago this week, gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho. The reintroduction not only improved the wolf's situation, but also the entire Yellowstone ecosystem. Yellowstone's ecology had suffered without this apex predator to help maintain natural ecological dynamics, a pattern we're seeing throughout the wolf's historical range. In the 25 years since the Yellowstone   more

BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 18 -- The Idaho Education Association issued the following news: The scaffolding that provides guidance to K-12 teaching and learning, the Idaho Content Standards, is essentially on trial during the early part of the 2020 legislative session. The House Education Committee is the first to take up the renewal process for the standards, holding public hearings on the English and Language Arts standards and the math standards this week. A third hearing, this one on Idaho's scien  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Jan. 17 -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release: * * * - After police had a ten-hour standoff with an empty house--eventually destroying everything inside--a court ruled there wasn't anything they could do about it. Now the Institute for Justice is launching a new project to ask the courts to reexamine doctrines giving government officials broad immunity from accountability * * * That is the question asked by a petition to the Supreme Court of the   more

BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 18 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release: * * * - Public lands grazing is responsible for destruction of wildlife habitat, streams, and the increase in invasive weeds across the West. * * * In an advance notice of rulemaking published, the Trump Administration announced plans to further deregulate the public lands livestock industry by proposing a suite of changes to the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) grazing regulations. The agency is soliciting publ  more