KMVT-1 - News - State http://www.kmvt.com/news/state RSS Feed for KMVT-1 - News - State en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:59:17 GMT Eastern Idaho city tries to reduce nitrates http://www.kmvt.com/news/state/87484482.html City leaders in the eastern Idaho city of Ashton are looking at ways to reduce high levels of nitrates in the drinking water supply. Northern Idaho study: Trees can save some green http://www.kmvt.com/news/state/87484392.html A new study commissioned by the U.S. Forest Service shows northern Idaho's Kootenai County has room for at least 600,000 more trees Idaho agency budget delayed amid conflict over IEN http://www.kmvt.com/news/state/87399372.html The state won't set the budget for the Department of Administration, opting to wait until mediation begins over a lawsuit targeting the $60 million Idaho Education Network. House votes to ban pension deals for Idaho workers http://www.kmvt.com/news/state/87399177.html The Idaho House voted 64-0 to ban sweetheart pension deals like the one Gov. C.L. ``Butch'' Otter's administration gave an outgoing employee in 2009. Jury convicts 2 for destroying historic mine http://www.kmvt.com/news/state/87297842.html A federal jury has convicted two people from Bellevue for destroying an ore bin and other property at a historic mine in central Idaho Idaho Education Network stirs up more controversy http://www.kmvt.com/news/state/87297742.html Small Internet service providers want Idaho to delay a statewide educational broadband network, arguing Qwest Communications Co. is building it in a way that hurts their businesses and will eventually add to state costs. Idaho Senate OKs texting ban, joining other states http://www.kmvt.com/news/state/87297557.html The Senate has a message for Idaho drivers: Put down the mobile device, quit texting and watch the road. Idaho police say shooting suspect found dead http://www.kmvt.com/news/state/87297452.html Police say the suspect in a fatal northern Idaho shooting has been found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. House to at least consider Internet sales tax push http://www.kmvt.com/news/state/87287782.html The House's famously tax-leery Revenue and Taxation Committee voted to at least consider joining a nationwide push aimed at eventually collecting sales taxes on Internet or catalog sales to bring in millions more in revenue. Idaho company fined over fatal trench collapse http://www.kmvt.com/news/state/87287712.html A Mountain Home contracting business has been fined $44,500 following the death of a worker when a trench collapsed last year.