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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has signed Secretarial Order 3356, which will support and expand hunting and fishing, enhance conservation stewardship, improve wildlife management, and increase outdoor recreation opportunities for all Americans. Secretarial Order 3356 is an extension of Secretarial Order 3347, issued on Zinke’s first day, March 2, 2017. That order identified […]
Last week, Lewiston City Council members raised the idea of renaming either Fifth Street between Lewis-Clark State College and the Levee Bypass – or the levee bypass itself – after the late Idaho Gov. Cecil D. Andrus, who died Aug. 24. “Boise likes to steal things from Lewiston,” Nez Perce County Prosecutor Justin Coleman told […]
At the same time firefighters work to control the deadly flames in Northern California, a group of western politicians are pushing for a change in how these efforts are funded. In the latest attempt to force a change in Congress, Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch have again signed on to a bill that deals with […]
The death toll in the California wildfires has now risen to 29. Nearly 500 are still missing in Sonoma County alone. Despite non-stop efforts by 8,000 firefighters and more than 100 planes and helicopters, the number of fires burning in the Golden State grew to 22 over Wednesday night. While firefighters continue to fight the […]
With Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee leaving the Senate after next year, Idaho Sen. Jim Risch appears to be a sure bet for taking over as chairman of prestigious Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2019 – assuming that Republicans retain their slim majority in that chamber. Those prospects are not so lofty, given the GOP’s […]
The House today passed by voice vote a cybersecurity bill that would require the government to provide much needed resources and guidance for small businesses as they face a deluge of cyberthreats. The bipartisan NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act (H.R. 2105) would require the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to issue […]
The House on Wednesday approved legislation that would require the federal government to produce and disseminate guidance to help small businesses with cybersecurity. The bill, introduced by Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), a member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, passed by a voice vote. The legislation would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a nonregulatory standards laboratory […]
A bipartisan group of western senators introduced legislation today to allow states affected by catastrophic wildfires to tap into federal disaster mitigation assistance to help them recover. That assistance now goes to recovery efforts for other types of disasters, from hurricanes to floods, for which there’s been a presidential designation of a major disaster. But […]
WASHINGTON The House is poised Thursday — over the fierce objections of conservatives — to pass a $36.5 billion emergency package to help states and U.S. territories ravaged by a series of hurricanes and wildfires that have killed dozens and destroyed thousands of homes. Conservative lawmakers are upset that the money is not offset by […]
Some small-business owners struggling to recover from this year’s series of brutal hurricanes said the federal government needs to beef up its response. Unlike individuals, businesses aren’t eligible for grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. They can receive disaster-recovery loans, but many entrepreneurs aren’t interested in taking on debt after a big storm, and […]