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Dozens of ranchers and landowners are criticizing the planned route for a high-voltage transmission line across southern Idaho.      Idaho Power and Rocky Mountain Power want to build the 1,103-mile Gateway West transmission line through private and public land in Cassia County and neighboring counties

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Public information meetings continue this week on the study of the Gateway West power transmission line that will stretch over 1100 miles from Wyoming into Idaho. 

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A series of meetings is scheduled for this week regarding the siting of a large transmission line from Wyoming to Idaho. 

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Top Story Podcast 8/8/11: First hour - Republican presidential debate...NBC poll shows Ron Paul won an overwhelming victory.  Will this change the course?  Also, BLM horse adoption, the cops with the bad guys list and Lori Dragt updates us on the special commemoration ceremony at Crossroads Ranch on 9/11.  Second hour - American Th

If you’re wondering where all the smoke came from yesterday you can blame a wildfire near Mountain Home.  Winds fueled a grass fire near Mountain Home Air Force Base just before noon yesterday that blackened around 500 acres and sent smoke into the Magic Valley area.

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Fire crews continue to battle a handful of wildfires across south central and eastern Idaho that were started by lightning strikes over the weekend.

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Many Magic Valley area resident and landowners have been following with interest the Gateway West High-Voltage transmission line project.  It’s in the planning stages right now.  When complete the project would bring increased electrical capabilities to Idaho from Wyoming. 

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 Plumes of smoke rose above the Snake River Canyon near Shoshone Falls last evening as firefighters beat back the blaze that started near Dierkes Lake. 

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The Humane Society of the United States is raising concerns about the potential for wild horses in the West to contract an equine herpes virus from domestic horses.  The society urged the Bureau of Land Management in a letter on Thursday to discourage and, where appropriate, prohibit private horse owners from bri

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The Bureau of Land Management sponsored a public hearing in Twin Falls yesterday so area residents could weigh in on the proposed China Mountain Wind Project in the Browns Bench area in southern Twin Falls County. 

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