Idaho family sues govt after misplaced cyanide-trap killed dog, injured son

A US family in Idaho has filed a lawsuit against the federal government, demanding $ 150,000 in compensation after a poisonous trap planted by Department of Agriculture killed their dog and left their son suffering from headaches. Read more The scent-baited trap called an M-44 doused Canyon Mansfield, then 14, and his three-year-old Labrador Casey, […]

Idaho State University lost a dirty bomb’s worth of plutonium

Well this isn’t good. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the federal agency tasked with administering the nation’s supply of fissile materials, announced on Friday that Idaho State University may be subject to fine for losing a gram of weapons-grade plutonium. While the quarter-sized chunk of radioactive rock isn’t nearly enough to generate a mushroom-cloud, it is […]

Idaho news station apologizes to BLM activist over ‘bank robbery’ picture blunder

Published time: 16 Jul, 2017 22:38 A TV station has apologized to a well-known Black Lives Matter activist after mistakenly attaching his photograph to a local story about a bank robbery. Tweets posted to CBS-affiliate KBOI in Idaho showed police restraining DeRay Mckesson, an activist and former Baltimore mayoral candidate, underneath the headline: “Would-be robber […]

Idaho news station apologizes for using photo of Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson in unrelated bank robbery story

KBOI/Twitter An local CBS news affiliate in Idaho has issued a public apology to Black Lives Matter activist and educator DeRay McKesson after the station used a photo of McKesson in an unrelated story about a bank robbery. Screenshots of tweets that the news station KBOI sent on Friday night showed an image of McKesson […]

An Idaho hospital is paying $300,000 to move an 800,000-pound giant sequoia tree

Rebecca Boone/AP BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A massive Idaho tree that grew over more than a century from a seedling sent by a noted naturalist has been uprooted and is poised to travel about two blocks Sunday to a new location. David Cox of tree-moving company Environmental Design said Saturday the 10-story sequoia is doing […]

Judge denies Bruce Willis’ request to build a private airstrip in central Idaho

Andreas Rentz / Getty HAILEY, Idaho (AP) — A judge has blocked actor Bruce Willis’ plan to build a private airstrip in central Idaho. The Idaho Mountain Express (http://bit.ly/2r6T4Gr ) reports that 5th District Judge Robert Elgee ruled that Camas County commissioners violated state law when drafting an ordinance allowing individuals to obtain conditional-use permits […]

Anti-coyote ‘cyanide bomb’ hurts 14yo Idaho boy, kills his dog

An Idaho family is outraged after a device planted by predator-control agents near their home sprayed their 14-year-old son and killed the family dog. The device, called an M-44, is spring-loaded to discharge poisonous sodium cyanide powder if it is pulled on. The US Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services uses the scent-baited booby-traps to kill […]

Hot Times in Frozen Idaho

The wintertime view from a room at the Shore Lodge in McCall, Idaho, is among the most spectacular in the West, looking out across the frozen tundra of Payette Lake toward the Salmon River Mountains. People come here for all kinds of snow-filled fun — like cat skiing in the backcountry of Brundage Mountain. But […]