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Federal environmental regulators have clearance to begin removing thousands of buckets and drums containing hazardous chemicals from a property in eastern Idaho. The Environmental Protection Agency began investigating the property last week. On July 19, the agency obtained a warrant ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agreed to hold a public meeting in Boise on a proposal by French nuclear giant Areva Inc. to build a uranium enrichment plan in eastern Idaho. The federal agency initially rejected a request for a ...

More than 25 years after a federal judge ordered Idaho to change the way it handled medical care, overcrowding and other issues at the Idaho State Correctional Institution, attorneys for inmates say problems in some areas of the prison near ...

Investigators with the Environmental Protection Agency are examining an eastern Idaho property that’s been designated a crime scene by local authorities who say they found hundreds of drums leaking chemicals. The Standard Journal reports that federal officials arrived July 10 ...

Tech and media moguls gathered here for an annual confab this week sounded a mostly cautious note on the economy. Big debts and still-depressed housing prices will continue to weigh on consumers, said Greg Maffei, CEO of Liberty Media Corp., ...

Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter is telling state workers that Idaho’s crummy economy isn’t due to get much better any time soon. As a result, the Republican isn’t making any promises to government employees that two years of austerity measures are ...

Idaho just got a $106,648 check, courtesy of a big drug company targeted in a nationwide Medicaid fraud allegations for its allegedly illegal efforts to boost the sale of a painkiller. Alpharma Inc., a unit of Bristol, Tenn.-based King Pharmaceuticals ...

Fresh off a long holiday weekend, many of the world’s most influential media and technology executives are expected to arrive July 6 at a posh resort to ponder new idea, possible deals and have a little fun, too. The five-day ...

According to a national survey, Idaho was among the states that saw the biggest month-to-month decreases in stress, while two-thirds of U.S. counties became economically healthier in May, thanks to more manufacturing jobs in the Midwest and fewer home foreclosures ...

The Idaho Supreme Court says the owners of several Idaho tanning salons have to pay sales and use tax on their equipment. In the ruling handed down last week, the unanimous court rejected the business owners’ claims that the tanning ...