Boise News 09-Jun

Education Management LLC Announces the Opening of Brown Mackie ...

Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA By Education Management LLC Education Management LLC (EDMC) today announced the addition of Brown Mackie College - Boise to its Brown Mackie College system ...

In a nod to the past, Boise mayor looks to a future with trolley cars

Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA AP - June 9, 2008 4:04 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - In a nod to its past, Boise's mayor is suggesting the future of the city's downtown include a streetcar ...

Shots fired reported in Boise

KBCI CBS 2 - Boise,ID,USA The Boise Police Department�s Special Forces Unit has also been dispatched to scene. Officials are not releasing too many specifics regarding the incident. ...

Brrrrr - Floating season is here on the Boise River

KBCI CBS 2 - Boise,ID,USA By KBCI Staff BOISE - It may not be perfect weather for floating but on Wednesday Barber Park in Boise will officially kick of float season. ...

Boise River set to open this week!

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA BOISE - Even though temperatures aren't expected to be exactly warm - the Boise River will open to floaters for the first time this year Wednesday. ...

Cancer forum set in Boise

Idaho Mountain Express and Guide - Ketchum,ID,USA ... �Have You Heard,� at St. Luke�s Anderson Center in Boise. from 5:30 to 7:30 pm Wednesday, June 11, The presentation will be co-sponsored by St. Luke�s ...

Will Boise hear the clang of a trolley again?

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Boise streetcar then: Boise city leaders want to bring back streetcars � which clanged along city streets at the turn of the century � to ease traffic ...

Boise State Brings Wind Power to Rural Schools

RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA That's what Boise State University is hoping to do with help from a three-year, $41000 per year Department of Energy program that brings wind power ...

Boise-Based US Geothermal to Explore Nevada Hot Spots

RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA By Hagadone, Zach Boise-based renewable energy company US Geothermal, Inc. entered into a joint venture agreement with Gerlach Green Energy LLC to explore ...

Residences a new definition for green community

Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA �This is the first of its kind,� says Simone du Boise, an architect specializing in environmental design. �There�s not another neighborhood like this. ...

Idaho News 09-Jun

Regulators Approve Idaho Power Rate Increases

RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA By Hagadone, Zach Idaho Power customer bills went up Sunday after state regulators approved rate increases to the Power Cost Adjustment that will ...

Idaho Falls-Based Biogas Company Fills Orders

RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA The Idaho Falls-based Intrepid Technology and Resources is an application innovator in Alternative Energy technology, soil amendment products and production ...

- Idaho Statesman

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA VIRGINIA (GUENECHEA) VOLK, 72, of Boise, Idaho died June 7. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated June 10 at St. John's Catholic Cathedral, 10 am. ...

News Minute: Here is the latest Idaho news from The Associated Press

Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA AP - June 9, 2008 6:44 AM ET IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Doctors told Reagan Hailey's parents not to plan for her 13th birthday. The Idaho Falls girl was ...

Idaho's Bilingual Dairy Publication Helps Improve Cull Cow Beef ...

Western Farmer-Stockman - WA,USA Sales of cull animals make up about 5% of a dairy income today, but a University of Idaho beef specialist says that figure could double by managing ...

Phoenix travel to Idaho Falls in playoffs

The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA 3 Idaho Falls. The Phoenix defeated the Mustangs 3-0 in their previous meeting this year. Fourth-ranked Pocatello will host No. 5 Cache Valley in the other ...

Idaho man shot by Boise police charged with felony

Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA AP - June 8, 2008 8:44 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A man who was shot by police after he was found in the basement storage space of an apartment has been ...

Eastern Idaho Reacts To Obama's Nomination

LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA After what major news networks across the country called a historic speech by Senator Hillary Clinton yesterday the debate goes on. ...

Lung transplant gives Idaho teen a whole new life

Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA AP - June 8, 2008 9:14 PM ET IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - It was the last three days of school at Idaho Falls' Sandcreek Middle School, but for 13-year-old ...

Idaho salmon run late, but coming

KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA AP - June 8, 2008 8:54 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - This spring's big snowmelt has river water running cold, fast and murky. Fish biologists say that's why the ...

Boise News 09-Jun

Idaho inmate escapes minimum security prison near Boise

LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA AP - June 6, 2008 8:24 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A drug offender who escaped Monday from the minimum-security South Idaho Correctional Institution near ...

Escaped inmate back behind bars

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA BOISE - After a few days on the lam, a man who escaped from the Southern Idaho Correctional Institute Monday is back behind bars. Cory Allen Collinson was ...

Boise lawyer criticizes Guantanamo proceedings

Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA AP - June 7, 2008 8:34 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A Boise lawyer working to defend detainees facing military trials at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has criticized ...

Beauty and the man-made beak

Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia MORE than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name. An engineer attached an artificial ...

Memorial service planned in Boise for John W. Keys III

Capital Press (subscription) - Salem,OR,USA A memorial service will be held at the Cathedral of the Rockies (First United Methodist Church), Boise, July 11 at 11 am for John W. Keys III, ...

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 ...

Boise News 09-Jun

Boise woman surrenders in traffic fatality

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA BY BILL ROBERTS - broberts@idahostatesman.com A Boise woman has turned herself in to police after being charged with vehicular manslaughter in the death of ...

Boise teen gets trial date in shooting death of his father

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA 5 for Derek Lewis, a 17-year-old Boise boy accused of killing his father, Dennis Lewis. A co-worker found Dennis Lewis in his Northwest Boise home on March ...

Escapee from Boise prison recaptured

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Boise police arrested Cory Allen Collinson in the basement of a vacant home in the 1400 block of Pend Oreille Street in Boise Thursday evening. ...

Boise lawyer critical of 'show trial' at Gitmo

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA BY DAN POPKEY - dpopkey@idahostatesman.com Boise lawyer David Nevin said Friday that a military court's decision to let the alleged mastermind of the Sept. ...

10:23 am -- Man rescued from Boise canal expects to leave hospital ...

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA By KATY MOELLER - Idaho Statesman An 87-year-old California man who was rescued from his car after it landed in a Boise canal Wednesday said Friday that he ...

Idaho inmate escapes minimum security prison near Boise

Southern Idaho Business - Twin Falls,ID,USA BOISE, Idaho - A drug offender who escaped Monday from the minimum-security South Idaho Correctional Institution near Boise is back in custody. ...

Residents return to damged homes after Boise standoff-turned-shooting

KBCI CBS 2 - Boise,ID,USA By Adam Rodriguez BOISE - Police took down the yellow tape at 4:20 Friday afternoon, and residents wasted no time going in. A manager at Somerset Hills said ...

Wounded Eagle Receives Bionic Beak

ToTheCenter.com - Malverne,NY,USA The work was done by a Boise engineer, Nate Calvin. The beak is intended as a temporary solution to improve the fit of the permanent replacement beak they ...

Boise Valley Seeking Workers Despite National Unemployment Spike

Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK BOISE, Idaho - (Business Wire) Feeling the unemployment pinch? Not if you live in Idaho�s Boise Valley. The Idaho Department of Labor today reported May ...

Idaho News 09-Jun

Beauty and the beak � and the Boeing Co

HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA The eagle was brought to the Birds of Prey Northwest ranch in Idaho where she was cared for Jane Fink Cantwell, who assembled a team to build a ...

Idaho Catholic diocese ordains 6 priests

Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA By JESSIE BONNER AP WRITER BOISE, Idaho -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise has ordained six new priests, five of them bilingual to help serve the ...

Idaho Catholic diocese ordains 6 priests

Seattle Times - United States It's the single largest group of priests to be ordained in the diocese's 115-year history in Idaho. The diocese estimates Hispanics make up more than half ...

Beauty And Her Beak

Forbes - NY,USA Beauty�s new beak is being designed by a team of experts, including Nate Calvin, a Boise, Idaho-based mechanical engineer who works for Kinetic Engineering ...

Proposed change to Idaho roadless rule protects more forests

Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA KETCHUM, Idaho � An official with an environmental group that was one of 50 organizations to attack Idaho's proposed roadless plan in March says recent ...

E. Idaho hospital reaches agreement in wrongful death suit

The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA AP � Published June 06, 2008 A settlement has been reached between an Idaho Falls hospital and the family of a 73-year-old woman who had sued the hospital ...

E. Idaho prosecutor reaches deal with AG's office

The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA AP � Published June 06, 2008 A prosecutor in eastern Idaho who admitted taking donations for a county fair in exchange for dismissing citations has pleaded ...

Idaho unemployment rate makes jump

KBCI CBS 2 - Boise,ID,USA By KBCI Staff BOISE - Idaho�s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped five-tenths of a percentage point to 3.6 percent in May. ...

Mowing costs more money as Idaho gas prices climb

Ontario Argus Observer - Ontario,OR,USA By JOHN MILLER AP BOISE � With gas prices in Idaho near $4 a gallon, fishermen have left their rods in the garage, lawn maintenance companies are hiking ...

Changes to Idaho roadless rule protects more forests

The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA The committee in a May 30 letter to US Department of Agriculture Secretary Edward Schafer suggested that only temporary roads in national forests in Idaho ...

Boise News 09-Jun

Arraignment Tuesday in Pasco in Boise kidnapping case

Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA The man accused of driving away with a 14-year-old Boise girl is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Franklin County Superior Court in Pasco on kidnapping ...

Boise woman charged with vehicular manslaughter

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA BOISE -- A Boise woman has turned herself in after being charged in connection with a deadly car accident last November. Boise Police say 43-year-old Mary ...

Boise woman turns herself in for vehicular manslaughter

Idaho Press-Tribune - Nampa,ID,USA BOISE � A Boise woman turned herself in to police after being charged with the death of an 83-year-old woman killed while crossing a Boise street. ...

Man charged with kidnapping, raping Boise teen

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA BOISE -- The Franklin County prosecuting attorney in Washington state today formally filed rape and kidnapping charges against an Alabama man found hiding ...

Mobile recreation program brings summer fun to Boise kids

Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA AP - June 6, 2008 12:34 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Boise Parks and Recreation Department is bringing athletic equipment, art supplies and snacks to kids ...

Electric car makes a stop in Boise

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA A representative from ECO Auto Inc. out of Bozeman, Montana, stopped by Boise Thursday to showcase an electric car. The cities of Boise, Nampa and the ...

Eagle wounded by poacher gets new beak, new look

KTUU - Anchorage,AK,USA Nate Calvin is a Boise engineer who spent 200 hours designing the complex beak. The new beak is only a temporary fix, designed to figure out precise ...

Fourth worker gets sick at Boise paper mill

Mid Columbia Tri City Herald - Kennewick,WA,USA By the Herald staff A fourth temporary worker at Boise Inc.'s Wallula paper mill says he became sick while working at the plant this week. ...

Boise expands mobile rec program

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Kids can drop in for sports, art, fitness, nutrition and performing arts activities at Boise Parks and Recreation's mobile recreation program. ...

Police shoot man holding soldering gun in Boise

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA In Boise, the Community Ombudsman also reviews any shooting, life-threatening injury or death connected to police action. ...

Idaho News 09-Jun

Eagle wounded by poacher gets new beak, new look

The Associated Press - MARIES, Idaho (AP) � More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name � with the ...

5:09 pm -- Idaho economy, employment slowing

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA By JOE ESTRELLA - jestrella@idahostatesman.com More evidence surfaced this week indicating that the once high-flying Idaho economy has slowed dramatically ...

1:40 pm -- Interior Department must reconsider protecting Idaho plant

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA AP A federal judge for the District of Idaho says the US Fish and Wildlife Service must reconsider its decision not to list Slickspot peppergrass as an ...

Idaho, Navy strike nuclear agreement

Idaho Mountain Express and Guide - Ketchum,ID,USA By GREG STAHL Some of Idaho's leading public officials on Wednesday joined representatives from the US Navy to announce an agreement extending nuclear Navy ...

Idaho Potato Commission releases recipe video shorts

FreshPlaza - Netherlands It�s the latest recipe and instructional DVD offered by the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC). �We wanted to create something that was stimulating and fun to ...

Man Arrested in Idaho Falls for Pointing Gun at Neighbor

KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID,USA Idaho Falls Police arrested 52-year-old Floyd Buck after he allegedly pointed a rifle at his neighbor around 8 o'clock Wednesday night. ...

Feds revise Idaho's 2006 growth numbers from best to 28th

Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA BOISE, Idaho � Idaho's economic growth for 2006 was drastically short of original estimates and 2007 figures are due to be even worse, according to a new ...

DOE grants $100000 for INL's nuclear isotope biz

Forbes - NY,USA AP 06.04.08, 2:40 PM ET The US Department of Energy is chipping in $100000 to help companies that want to use the Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Test ...

US Navy to stay in Idaho

Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA AP - June 5, 2008 12:34 PM ET IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - The United States Navy is extending nuclear operations at the Idaho National Laboratory for at least ...

Idaho company announces plan for depleted-uranium plant

KXLY - Spokane,WA,USA BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A tiny eastern Idaho company says it plans to build a plant to make useful industrial gases out of waste from commercial uranium ...