Here’s what’s in today’s Times-News:

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality has suspended for a second year a program that gathers water quality data because of budget cuts.  But DEQ director Toni Hardesty told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee that the program cannot be cut a third year because of federal requirements through the Clean Water Act. The story is here.

Reporter Nate Poppino has a story about the statewide impact of the Idaho Supreme Court’s ruling that upholds Gooding County’s confined animal feedlot operation (CAFO) ordinance. The story is here.