Idaho News 24-Jul

Two new Web sites aim to help businesses select sites in Idaho

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Idaho will try and speed up and simplify the process of attracting jobs and companies to the state with the launch of GemStateProspector.com. ...

Idaho Shakespear Actor Dies

KBOI - Boise,ID,USA Actor Dan Alan Peterson, a funny man with a folksy charm and one of the most venerable of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival founding company members, ...

Taking the "ouch" out of a mammogram

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA The investigators, from St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute in Boise, Idaho, point out that mammograms tend to hurt more when women expect them to ...

Ruling recharges Idaho wolf foe's ballot drive

Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA LEWISTON, Idaho � The leader of the Anti Wolf Coalition in Idaho says he will try again to put a wolf removal initiative on the ballot now that a federal ...

Silverwood Theme Park in Idaho opens Aftershock, a new boomerang ...

Seattle Times - United States ... stop screaming y at the monster he named: the steely 191-foot roller coaster Aftershock that's just opened at northern Idaho's Silverwood Theme Park. ...

Flood watch in effect for central Idaho

Idaho Mountain Express and Guide - Ketchum,ID,USA By :GREGORY FOLEY The National Weather Service office in Pocatello has issued a flash flood watch for central Idaho today. A flash flood watch means that ...

SW Idaho school approves drug testing for football

LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA AP - July 22, 2008 10:44 AM ET HOMEDALE, Idaho (AP) - Prep football players in Homedale now have another reason to be drug-free. Leaders of the southwest ...

More Cougar Sightings in Idaho

KBOI - Boise,ID,USA Security officials at Idaho State University are confirming yet another cougar sighting on the Pocatello campus. This time, officials say a cougar was ...

Our View: Wyoming's cavalier wolf plan set back delisting

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Idaho's estimated 1000-plus wolves are back under federal control largely because Wyoming has written a faulty plan for handling its own wolves. ...

First human cases of West Nile virus reported in Idaho

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA A teen-aged girl from Payette County and a man in his 30s in Bonneville County have both tested positive for West Nile infections, the Idaho Department of ...