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LAS VEGAS (AP) — More than two years after an armed standoff with rancher Cliven Bundy prompted a pullout of researchers from Gold Butte, federal land managers are returning to the scenic, historic and ecologically fragile area.

Outsiders may be surprised to learn the federal government owns two-thirds of Idaho.  There is also discussion the government in Washington, D.C. is looking to even swallow up more land from the state.  Congressman Raul Labrador joined us today and explained with much of the land in his district under federal control the people living in the panhandle are being squeezed...

WASHINGTON D.C. (AP)-A new government report says that while intruders routinely breach the security fences protecting runways and planes at U.S. airports, the federal Transportation Security Administration is not helping airports keep up with the threat.

One-hundred-dollar bills are about to get quite the colorful face-lift.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and the Legislature should broaden Idaho's Medicaid program to cover more than 100,000 additional low-income residents, but insist on tying the expansion to a benefit program that improves care, boosts personal accountability and reduces costs...