WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following news release: The Federal Election Commission cited six campaign committees for failing to file the 12-Day Pre-Primary Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (the Act), for primary elections being held on May 19, 2020 in Idaho and Oregon. As of May 15, 2020, the required disclosure report had not been received from: * Ray J Writz for US Senate (ID)* * Jim Vandermaas for Idaho (ID) *   more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, May 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news on May 11: During the 13 years Cassini studied Saturn, the spacecraft captured 453,048 images, discovered six new moons and completed 294 orbits, all before making its fiery final descent into the planet's atmosphere on Sept. 17, 2017. Cassini also made dozens of flybys of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Given its rocky core and thick atmosphere, scientists suspected that Titan migh  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, May 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release on May 13: The world could be catching up with researchers who have long recognized that organic material - everything from corn stalks to municipal solid waste - can be used as both a source of renewable energy and as raw material for advanced manufacturing. Recognition has come most recently from Frontiers Media, a Switzerland-based academic publisher of online peer-revie  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Northwest Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Hay stocks on farms on May 1, 2020 totaled 490,000 tons in Idaho, up 23 percent from a year ago. May 1 stocks represent 10 percent of 2019 production. Disappearance from December 1, 2019 was down 1.9 million tons. On-farm hay stocks in Oregon totaled 400,000 tons, up 135 percent from 2019. May 1 stocks are 12 percent o  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Northwest Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Based on May 1, 2020 conditions, production of winter wheat in Idaho was forecast at 58.7 million bushels, down 1 percent from 2019. Yield was expected to average 85.0 bushels per acre, down 2.0 bushels from last year. Growers planted an estimated 730,000 acres in the fall of 2019, unchanged from the previous year. Harv  more

BOISE, Idaho, May 14 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Idaho office issued the following news release: Conservation practices are working to reduce runoff, improve soil quality, and mitigate contaminants in small watersheds across the country, according to USDA's scientific findings published in the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Agricultural Research Service (ARS) collaborated with un  more