Stories from Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Owyhee County has received an application to build a nuclear plant from Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. The company is proposing to build a $3.5 billion, 1,600-megawatt nuclear/biofuels facility in the Bruneau/Grand View area. Last Monday, the Owyhee County Commission unanimously voted, at the request of AEHI, to waive the requirement that the application be processed in 125 days, in order to give time to consider the complex proposal...

A state of emergency for the Duck Valley Indian Reservation was declared Monday by Kyle Prior, Chairman of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, as fires had burned over 240 power poles in the south Idaho/northern Nevada region, causing a mass power outage on the reservation...