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(KLIX)-Bureau of Land Management officials have become concerned with exploding targets. Officials believe several in the state have been caused by these targets in the last few weeks. Kyli Gough with B-L-M says  people use exploding targets for riffle practice...

(KLIX) Several wildfires kept Bureau of Land Management fire crews busy during the weekend. Crews spent Saturday fighting the East Devil’s Corral Fire. A downed power line may be to blame. It started a little before 2 in the afternoon just east of Highway 93...

Bliss (KLIX)-  A blown engine sparked a brush fire just off the interstate yesterday afternoon. Bureau of Land Management officials say debris from the blown car engine started the fire at the rest stop just west of Bliss. Bliss Rural Fire Department was first on the scene...

Twin Falls (KLIX)- Fire crews have stepped up their training for the incoming fire season. Bureau of Land Management says crews are heading into the area to brush up on skills. There are about 60 return employees with about 40 new hires. They’ll be testing and training in the next several weeks...

Twin Falls- Fire officials want people to have fun this weekend, but they also want Memorial Day goers to be fire safe. The Bureau of Land Management want people to be cautious as the fire season gets closer. Kyli Gough, with B-L-M says should be mindful when they are out driving...

It’s going to be busy the next couple of weeks for area fire fighters. Many have come to the Magic Valley for training according to the Bureau of Land Management. They are getting ready for the upcoming fire season. The Twin Falls Fire District and Aviation Program has started classes...

There’s probably going to be at least a two year delay in any decision to build a huge wind farm in southwest Twin Falls County.  The Times News reports that the proposed China Mountain wind farm project is being put on hold for now so the BLM can formulate a plan that will protect the endangered sage grouse critical habitat...

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...

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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.

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 bringing potentially exposed horses onto federal lands...

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.

State officials are concerned that the wet spring could bring some serious wildfires this year but even with that concern, this year is expected to be an average year for fires.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has released a draft environmental analysis for the proposed 400-megawatt China Mountain wind farm  near the Idaho-Nevada border.