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The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality awarded a $3 million low-interest loan to Challis in Custer County to fund the construction of a new well, well house, booster station, transmission line and to perform leak detection on waterlines, according to a Department of Environmental Quality press release. Challis qualified for a disadvantaged loan, with payment ...

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality awarded Challis, in Custer County, a $3 million loan to repair the drinking water system.

Central Idaho's Mackay Dam need repairs and poses risks to communities and the Idaho National Laboratory, but funding is hard to come by.

MACKAY (Idaho Capital Sun) — The over 100-year-old Mackay Dam in Idaho’s Custer County needs repairs and poses a risk to the town of Mackay just downstream and the Idaho National Laboratory about 30 miles further, according to the Idaho Department of Water Resources and the Environmental Defense Institute, an Idaho nonprofit focused on nuclear […]

At a teacher appreciation rally at Melba Elementary School Tuesday, Gov. Brad Little signed House Bill 443 into law, his“ Leading Idaho” teacher health insurance bill that seeks to extend better health insurance benefits to teachers across Idaho. It received strong support from Idaho education stakeholders.