SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following news release: In 2019, union members accounted for 4.9 percent of wage and salary workers in Idaho, compared with 4.7 percent in 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Richard Holden noted that the union membership rate for the state was at its series peak in 1993, when it averaged 10  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: A number of prime cleanup contractors across the EM complex exceeded annual goals for subcontracting with small businesses in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2019. Contractors at the Hanford, Savannah River, Oak Ridge, Idaho, Portsmouth, Paducah, and West Valley Demonstration Project sites went beyond their socioeconomic business goals for small busin  more

BOZEMAN, Montana, Feb. 4 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the deletion of 82 acres of the Idaho Pole Company Superfund site in Gallatin County, Montana, from the National Priorities List (NPL) of the nation's most contaminated sites. EPA and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) have determined that all required cleanup activities are complete in the area. EPA proposed and solicite  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Feb. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: INL has joined Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy (GCNP) with Dr. Mark Peters becoming the latest gender champion. The leadership network, launched in 2018, brings together heads of organizations from all over the world working in nuclear policy who are committed to break down gender barriers and make gender equality a working reality in their spheres of influence. GCNP foc  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Feb. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news: If you're seeking new innovations, few things work better than calling for ideas from the best and brightest young minds. For Bane Sullivan, pursuing a master's in hydrology at Colorado School of Mines, the call came in early 2019, when he saw an advertisement for the U.S. Department of Energy's Geothermal Design Challenge coordinated by Idaho National Laboratory. As someone inter  more

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Idaho office issued the following news release: The Natural Resources Conservation Service in Idaho has released the February Water Supply Outlook Report for the 2020 water year. The New Year and decade brought not only the change of time and calendars, but also a change in the dominant weather pattern affecting the Pacific Northwest. The first in a series of potent weather systems began spreadi  more

KAMIAH, Idaho, Feb. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests - issued the following news release: The Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests invites interested parties to submit project proposals for consideration by the North Central Idaho Resource Advisory Committee. The public is welcome to submit project proposals on or after February 15; the deadline to submit a proposal is April 15. The Committee will meet later this year to  more

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: The Bureau of Reclamation announces Talmadge Oxford as area manager for the Columbia-Cascades Area Office in Interior Region 9: Columbia Pacific Northwest. Headquartered in Yakima, Wash., Oxford will oversee major field offices in Yakima and Ephrata, Wash., and Bend and Hermiston, Ore. He will manage Reclamation projects in Washington State, northern Idaho and western Montana,   more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Feb. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: Idaho National Laboratory has partnered with Idaho Invention Convention, the premier student invention program in the U.S. Northwest, to host an eastern Idaho Regional Invention Convention. Elementary and middle school students from eastern Idaho are eligible to enter their creations individually or in teams in five invention categories, while high school students can ente  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on Feb. 5: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.3 million grant to Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, to construct a new technical education and training facility on campus. The EDA grant, to be located near a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matche  more

KAMIAH, Idaho, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests - issued the following news release: Lolo Pass Visitor Center, located on the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests on U.S. Highway 12 at the Idaho/Montana state line, is excited to announce the beginning of a Winter Speaker Series at the visitor center this season. This program offers the public a chance to bring a sack lunch and sit down to enjoy presentations from sp  more