Idaho will get $1.9 million in a legal settlement with four prescription drug manufacturers, Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced today. “This settlement reimburses unfair costs to Idaho taxpayers,” Wasden said, through Medicaid reimbursements. Click below to read his full announcement.
Idaho's Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal from an Ada County man, William Howard Locke, who challenged his felony prosecution for a third DUI because his third offense actually occurred after the one for which he was hit with the enhanced penalty. But it…
A 60-year-old Arco woman has been sentenced to federal probation and restitution for unauthorized excavation of archaeological resources, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. Roxanne Hale was given three years probation for the federal crime, ordered to pay $9,265 in restitution, and prohibited from being…
Idaho Congressman Walt Minnick is the first Democrat since 2006 to be named a "Taxpayer Hero" by the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, a group that decries "pork-barrel spending" and tracks congressional votes on "wasteful programs." The group's president, Tom Schatz, said in a…
One state budget cut has just been reversed, and just in time: The Idaho Digitial Learning Academy has received a $100,000 grant from the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation that's allowing it to immediately lift unprecedented new enrollment caps on advanced courses offered online to…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The University of Idaho says the American Bar Association has signed off on the school's proposal for a third-year law program in the state's capital city. The university announced Monday that classes will…
Yes, I know this news first broke on Friday, but I was on vacation then, so here's a link to my full story on GOP congressional candidate Raul Labrador's decision to join the NRCC's "Young Guns" candidate recruitment program after all, a turnaround from his…
Former Idaho State University political scientist David Adler has been named director of the University of Idaho's James A. and Louise McClure Center for Public Policy Research, where the UI says he will "take the University of Idaho to center stage" on public policy issues…
The heirs of a skier from New York who became lost outside the boundaries of Grand Targhee ski area in January and died of hypothermia are suing the Teton County Sheriff's Department, Teton County, Idaho Search and Rescue, and others for $5 million in a…
A 19-year-old from Pocatello by the name of Ryan P. Hanson has been issued a summons to appear on two misdemeanor counts of malicious injury to property, according to the Idaho State Journal, in the "BZR bandit" case, in which he allegedly went to great…
OK, this time, I'm in the picture. Here, I'm windsurfing in the eastern Columbia River Gorge at "The Wall," near Rufus, Ore., today. Later in the afternoon, when the wind picked up, the river swells got really big and smooth, and super-fun. It's a bit…
Enough endangered sockeye salmon are returning to central Idaho this year that some will be allowed to swim the final few hundred yards into Redfish Lake under their own power, something that hasn't happened in two decades due to dismal spawning runs, the AP reports;…
A child who was swimming in a pond in Crouch earlier this week was exposed to a rabid bat that swooped down and scratched him. The boy's father captured the bat, and Idaho Health & Welfare officials confirmed that it was the third rabid bat…
Idaho has suspended wolf tag sales in the wake of today's federal court decision in Montana placing wolves back on the endangered species list and suspending wolf hunting in Idaho and Montana, where hunters took 188 and 73 wolves last year, respectively. Idaho Fish &…
The private prison company that runs Idaho's Idaho Correctional Center south of Boise is trying to get a federal lawsuit over violence there dismissed, saying the severely beaten inmates bringing the case didn't exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit. The ACLU's attorney said the Corrections…
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo is co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation - along with Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore. - to halve the federal excise taxes smaller craft breweries pay, a move his office says "would benefit Idaho brewers and farmers and…
Idaho Congressman Walt Minnick's re-election bid was endorsed by the Idaho Associated General Contractors today, along with its national organization, the Associated General Contractors of America. Minnick joined Idaho AGC's president, Burke Hansen, and executive director, Mark Dunham, at an Eagle-area concrete plant for the…
USA Today reports that state legislators in an array of states - including Idaho - are rethinking plans to introduce Arizona-style immigration laws after a federal court temporarily blocked the core of the law. Among state lawmakers quoted: Idaho Senate President Pro-Tem Bob Geddes. The…
Interesting look by the Idaho Statesman's Dan Popkey today at the political and economic ramifications of the right-to-work fight in Idaho 25 years ago, and its ripples today, as Gary Glenn, the leader of the push back then, returns to Idaho for a gala Thursday…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Idaho will be barred from disqualifying judges from criminal cases without giving a reason first. The Idaho Supreme Court has suspended a rule that had allowed prosecutors or…
Gov. Butch Otter has dismissed Democratic challenger Keith Allred's proposal for a 3-cent cut in Idaho's 25-cent-per-gallon gas tax and a corresponding hike in fees on heavy trucks, saying it shows "a lack of leadership and credibility." Allred's proposal came after Otter's transportation funding task…
The AP reports that GOP congressional candidate Raul Labrador has moved his campaign office outside the 1st Congressional District in a money-saving move, closing his Eagle office and moving into existing GOP office space in downtown Boise. In a statement to The Associated Press, Labrador's…
Today is Election Day in a number of communities around Idaho, from Canyon County's jail bond to various highway districts around the state, and it's the first election for which Idaho's new law will be in effect requiring voters to show photo I.D. at the…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keith Allred aims to cut Idaho's gas tax by 3 cents and says Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's push to raise more money for roads is misguided. Allred would cut the…
There's been a whole lot of digging and concrete work going on around a flagpole in front of the Capitol Annex, the former Ada County Courthouse where the Legislature held its sessions in 2008 and 2009 but that's now standing vacant. Here's what it is:…
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