Idaho News 09-Jun

Idaho Power turns to gas, wind, geothermal to meet needs of nearly ...

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Idaho Power has long relied on hydropower and coal. That is changing. The utility's new pursuits are more expensive, but they are key to its plans for ...

Silver Rapids Indoor Waterpark opens in Idaho

Kansas City Star - MO,USA Skiing and surfing overlapped for a weekend at the Silver Mountain Resort in Kellogg, Idaho, as the ski season ended June 1 and the new Silver Rapids Indoor ...

N. Idaho judge declares mistrial in alleged hate crime

Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA LEWISTON, Idaho � A Nez Perce County judge declared a mistrial in a case of an alleged hate crime in northern Idaho. Nez Perce County prosecutors accused ...

Fremont County sheriff asks for Idaho primary recount

Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA ANTHONY, Idaho � Fremont County Sheriff Ralph Davis has asked the Idaho Attorney General's Office for a recount after losing in the May 27 Republican ...

Technology should improve access in rural N. Idaho

The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA AP � Published June 07, 2008 The Verizon company plans to improve telecommunications services in rural northern Idaho with new technology that could speed ...

Idaho denied fresh start on No Child Left Behind

The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA AP � Published June 07, 2008 The US Department of Education has rejected a request from the Idaho Board of Education to give hundreds of public schools ...

Authorities question suspect in Idaho in possible homicide

LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA (AP) - Elko County deputies searched near the Idaho-Nevada line for the body of a California man who has been missing since last month and may have been the ...

Idaho's Jobless Rate Jumps 0.5 Percent

Black Enterprise - New York,NY,USA 7--Idaho's jobless rate jumped 0.5 percent in May -- the highest one month increase on record. Statewide, seasonally adjusted unemployment was 3.6 percent ...

Idaho agency says unemployment continues to increase

KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA AP - June 7, 2008 2:24 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho Department of Labor says the state's seasonally adjusted level of unemployment hit its highest ...