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• King Soopers, City Market recalling ice cream

  November 7, 2012 10:22 AM

  DENVER (AP) - King Soopers and City Market are recalling ice cream because of concerns over pecan allergies. The recall involves Kroger Deluxe French Vanilla ice cream sold in Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The federal Food and Drug Administration says people... more »

• Seasonal firefighters seek health care coverage

  July 9, 2012 7:22 PM

  DENVER (AP) - They work the front lines of the nation's most explosive wildfires, navigating treacherous terrain, and dense walls of smoke and tall curtains of flame. Yet thousands of the nation's seasonal firefighters have no health insurance for themselves or their families. Many firefighters are now asking to buy... more »

• States suing over health care law collect funding

  November 29, 2011 12:11 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal officials are awarding more money to help states carry out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The surprise? The list includes seven states suing to overturn the landmark law. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday that 13 states will split grants totaling... more »

• Deadly horse virus spreads, 34 animals infected

  May 21, 2011 2:32 PM

  BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The number of horses infected with the deadly and contagious Equine Herpes Virus-1 continues to grow. The USDA says the outbreak that started at an Ogden, Utah competition has infected at least 34 horses in nine states and Canada. That's got some owners, like cowgirl... more »

• Search continues for missing Idaho miner

  April 17, 2011 3:54 PM

  MULLAN, Idaho (AP) - Mining company officials in northern Idaho have brought in a remote-controlled digging machine to help search for a missing worker. Officials have not had contact with 53-year-old Larry Marek, who's a mile below the surface, since a tunnel collapsed deep inside the Lucky Friday Mine on... more »

• Vestas sells more wind generators

  December 16, 2010 4:46 PM

  Vestas has received an order for 44 wind turbines to be installed near American Falls, Idaho for Ridgeline Energy. "We look forward to working with Ridgeline on its Rockland wind energy project," said Martha Wyrsch, President of Vestas Americas. "Ridgeline is a highly respected and experienced developer of commercial-scale... more »

• UPDATE: D.A. releases letter from now dead defendant

  November 18, 2010 4:27 PM

  Thursday, the El Paso County District Attorney's office announced they had received a letter earlier this month from a Colorado Springs fugitive who was later shot and killed, earlier this week, by a Sheriff's deputy in Idaho. On Wednesday, 47-year-old Curtis Scrivner was shot and killed by an Idaho... more »

• Montana wants permission to kill gray wolves

  September 27, 2010 5:50 PM

  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Montana officials are seeking federal approval to kill 186 endangered gray wolves in a special "conservation hunt," while neighboring Idaho wants permission to kill up to 50 of the predators that officials say are eating too many elk. Documents released Monday detailed the states' new... more »

• Late field goal lifts Colorado State to 36-34 win

  September 25, 2010 9:13 PM

  FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - Ben DeLine kicked a 35-yard field goal as time expired, Pete Thomas and Raymond Carter each had three touchdowns and Colorado State defeated Idaho 36-34 on Saturday to end a 12-game losing streak. DeLine, who kicked two other field goals, missed a point-after attempt that... more »

• Ruling over biotech beets threatens nation's sugar supply

  August 20, 2010 9:57 AM

  Some sugar beet growers are uneasy as they wait for federal officials to decide the next step for a crop that provides half the nation's sugar supply. A federal judge in California issued a ruling earlier this month that prevents future planting of sugar beets with genetically modified seeds... more »

• Pot plot hidden in farmer's corn field

  August 10, 2010 2:13 PM

  Authorities say a southern Idaho farmer unknowingly watered and fertilized more than 300 marijuana plants while tending to his corn fields. The Jerome County sheriff's office says the farmer found the plot of pot growing between his tall, green stalks of unripened corn early Monday and called authorities. ... more »

• Judge: USFWS plan excluded possible lynx habitat

  July 30, 2010 8:06 AM

  A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is arbitrarily excluding "critical habitat" that could be occupied by the elusive Canada lynx. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy ruled Wednesday the agency excluded large swaths of Western habitat from protection when it recommended in 2009 that... more »

• Vandalism, theft at Colorado's Canyons of the Ancients

  July 13, 2010 9:13 AM

  A conservation group says it's concerned about vandalism, looting and destruction at the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in southwest Colorado and other protected lands. The nonprofit Conservation Lands Foundation, based in Durango, said Monday it's leading a volunteer restoration project at the Canyons of the Ancients. ... more »

• Kids spend hours perfecting amazing basketball shots

  June 10, 2010 5:12 PM

  How many shots they've missed is impossible to say, but if you visit Boise, Idaho's B-Town Ballers, bring a new net, a bit of patience, and plenty of videotape. The childhood buddies shoot a lot of baskets and a lot of video, hoping their trick shots will net a... more »

• Skunks, badgers enlisted to control pelicans

  April 21, 2010 12:45 PM

  Idaho is enlisting badgers and skunks in its fight against pelicans that are eating too many sport fish and hurting sensitive populations of Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Idaho Department of Fish and Game managers released three badgers and two skunks last week on Gull Island in southeastern Idaho's Blackfoot Reservoir. Last... more »

• 8 dead in Western avalanches so far this winter

  January 25, 2010 6:19 PM

  Avalanches have killed eight people in the West so far this winter. The latest was a Utah skier who died Sunday when a wall of snow broke away near Snowbasin resort. Utah Avalanche Center Director Bruce Tremper says more than a month of drought conditions followed by last week's... more »

• PAC to run ad promoting college football playoff

  January 4, 2010 2:13 PM

  A new political action committee plans to run ads this week pushing for a playoff system for college football. Playoff PAC says it will run the ads in Dallas, Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho ahead of Thursday's national championship game between Texas and Alabama. The ad highlights the fact... more »

• Montana stops wolf hunting near Yellowstone

  October 15, 2009 9:26 AM

  Montana wildlife commissioners shut down gray wolf hunting Tuesday in backcountry adjacent to Yellowstone National Park after nine of the predators were killed there in recent weeks. Commissioners, however, kept the statewide kill quota at 75, repeating their belief that the planned harvest would not hurt the overall population... more »

• Gray wolf hunts may continue, judge rules

  September 9, 2009 12:02 PM

  Gray wolf hunts in Montana and Idaho may continue, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, denying a request by environmentalists and animal welfare groups to stop the first legal hunts in the lower 48 states in decades. Plans to kill about 20 percent of the two states' estimated 1,350 wolves... more »