Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho prison officials say they have leveled a tribal sweat lodge and reconfigured a patch of ground that has served the religious needs of Native American inmates for more than 25 years at…
Reports released today by the Canyon County Sheriff's Department reveal new details about state Sen. John McGee's Father's Day arrest for drunken driving and taking and jacknifing a stranger's vehicle, reports Dan Popkey; read his full report here in the Idaho Statesman. Among the new…
Idaho's three GOP redistricting commissioners have sent out a guest opinion accusing their Democratic counterparts of "raw partisanship" and a "hardball, union-style negotiating tactic," and giving something of the impression that the moves toward compromise between the two sides that marked the commission's last two…
Gov. Butch Otter has penned a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in defense of Jeremy Hill, the Boundary County man who shot a grizzly bear that had entered his yard while his young children were out playing, and now faces federal charges. "I recognize…
Idaho homeowners are being targeted in a scam in which notices that look like government forms are mailed to them or posted on their doors, inviting them to join lawsuits against their mortgage lenders and claiming they can get large principal reductions or other monetary…
David Hahn, a senior financial management analyst in the state's Division of Financial Management, has been awarded the George A. Bell Award from the National Association of State Budget Officers for "outstanding contributions and service to public budgeting and management in state government." The award,…
Here's a link to our full story in today's paper on the prosecution of a Boundary County man who shot and killed a grizzly bear that had appeared in his yard with its mother and another two-year-old cub on May 8, while his six children…
Idaho's new state lands director has lots of experience in Montana managing oil and gas revenues from state trust lands, reports Idaho Statesman reporter Rocky Barker, which should come in handy as Idaho begins to look at potential revenues from natural gas on its state…