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Hunting Influencer Ryan Lampers Charged with Grand Theft and Other Wildlife Crimes
The MeatEater - Montana
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September 4, 2025
A hunting influencer has been charged with two felonies and six misdemeanors for, among other things, lying about where he killed a wolf in Idaho and then pocketing the extra reimbursement money. Ryan Lampers, who was known as the StHealthyHunter...
New Education Cuts Will Hit Idaho’s Most Vulnerable Students Hard
Idaho Education News - Idaho
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September 4, 2025
Sometimes sitting in Idaho, it is hard to understand the machinations going on in Washington D.C., especially when it is happening in an obscure congressional subcommittee. But this week the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee for Labor,...
Beyond the numbers: Rethinking race and success in Idaho’s schools
Idaho Education News - Idaho
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September 4, 2025
When the new ISAT scores were released, Idaho Ed News used the state’s official reporting to share a familiar breakdown: top-performing districts tended to have higher percentages of white students, while lower-performing districts had fewer white...
Voices: To save Utah’s children, we must save the Great Salt Lake
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dust blows over the Great Salt Lake on Monday, May 12, 2025. This past month, Glendale Library hosted an event to teach children about animals that live in and around Great Salt Lake. Volunteers distributed...
Four Wildlife Success Stories — That Require Continued Federal Engagement
WhoWhatWhy
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September 4, 2025
The Endangered Species Act has long enjoyed broad-based support. These species show success is an option. Listen To This Story In spite of broad-based support for protecting wildlife and wild spaces, the substance of the Endangered Species Act is...
The Rio Grande’s pecan problem
High Country News - Colorado
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September 8, 2025
Stay informed about the West. Sign up for our email newsletter to receive in-depth, independent reporting that illuminates our region. Green is not the color one expects to see in the cactus-and-yucca-dotted Chihuahuan Desert of southern New...
This day in history: Vice President Charles Dawes spoke vigorously to Spokane crowd. Environmentalists criticized smokestack ‘solution’
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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From 1975: Local environmentalists were unimpressed by the Bunker Hill Co.’s assertion that its tall smokestacks were an “antipollution measure.” “Tall stacks simply are not a solution to pollution emissions problems.” said the chairman of the...
Protonic Ceramic Electrolysis Cell Breakthrough at Idaho National Laboratory
Hydrogen Fuel News
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September 4, 2025
A New Chapter in Clean Hydrogen On September 3, 2025, the crew at Idaho National Laboratory lifted the veil on a game-changing device: a Protonic Ceramic Electrolysis Cell (PCEC) that doubles as a Perovskite Ceramic Fuel Cell and a...
Idaho needs to improve wildlife management
Bonner County Daily Bee - Idaho
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September 2, 2025
Enough is enough. Are you tired of the way that Idaho Department of Fish and Game mismanages your wildlife? It’s time to make a change and start electing our commissioners. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission consists of seven members appointed by...
Idaho Fish and Game’s new deer rules target chronic wasting disease
FOX 28 - Washington State
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September 2, 2025
NORTH IDAHO – New regulations have been announced by Idaho Fish and Game for deer hunters in North Idaho this season. These changes come in response to the discovery of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the area last year. The new regulations apply...
Opinion: Why BYUI?
Scroll - Idaho
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September 8, 2025
I stood grinning with my dad’s dirty BYU Cougars baseball cap falling over my eyes as my dad clicked the photo on his phone. His fingers typed in rapid succession to add a caption for the extended family group chat. “Cat just got accepted to BYU!”...
Arizona volleyball starts long stretch of road games at Boise State
AZ Desert Swarm - Arizona
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September 4, 2025
Arizona setters Chloe Giehtbrock (14) and Avery Scoggins (6) on Aug. 31, 2025 in Tucson, Ariz. Photo courtesy of Arizona Athletics Arizona volleyball had a solid opening weekend in the Wildcat Classic, but the fans won’t see them much at home for...
AGs to EPA: End Taxpayer Grants to Woke Climate Group
Townhall
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September 3, 2025
A group of 23 states attorneys general urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop funding a group funding climate activism nationwide for judges. The group urged EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to stop funding the Washington D.C.-based...
Pastor Doug Wilson’s fringe teachings go mainstream in Trump’s Washington
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Georgia
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Wilson and his acolytes within the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches still teach that empathy can be a sin, that the U.S. is a Christian nation, that giving women the right to vote was a bad idea. But as evangelicalism has aligned more...
LETTER: Idaho County Fair — effort worth applauding
Idaho County Free Press
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If you or your child came home with tired feet, animal manure on your shoes, blue teeth from shaved ice, and a maple scone tucked away for the next day’s breakfast, you were probably at the Idaho County Fair. This year’s fair seemed busier than...
Marines' shocking ties to pro-Russian neo-Nazis exposed after Raw Story sues Trump agency
Raw Story
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September 8, 2025
The U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) probed a Marine assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina for ties to a pro-Russia neo-Nazi group in Poland, according to internal military files exclusively obtained by Raw Story. The Marine...
NH and MA Both Ranked in Top 10 Happiest in the U.S.
102.1 & 105.3 The Shark - New Hampshire
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September 8, 2025
With everything going on in the world, it can be difficult to find happiness, but if you live in New Hampshire or Massachusetts, according to a new survey, you have a better chance at finding it than other states in the U.S. According to...
The woman behind the Mighty Argo in Idaho Springs
The Colorado Sun
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September 3, 2025
IDAHO SPRINGS — Mary Jane Loevlie, standing next to twin 35,000-gallon water tanks and a freshly poured foundation for the Mighty Argo Cable Car gondola and a mountain top restaurant and amphitheater she’s building above her hometown, spreads her...
Carolyn & Kem Gardner Learning & Leadership Building officially opens
Utah Statesman
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September 8, 2025
Surrounded by various donors, former and current student body representatives, family, students and more, Carolyn and Kem Gardner, alongside David H. Huntsman and Karen Huntsman, cut a big blue ribbon to celebrate the opening of the newest...
September Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure Washington Update
National Law Review
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September 2, 2025
Introduction While August is typically a quiet month with Congress out of session, there were several significant developments in energy and environmental policy. The Department of Energy (DOE) rolled out plans for over $1 billion in funding to...