Former Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus, who filed a Freedom of Information Act request in January for documents about the U.S. Department of Energy’s plans to seek a waiver from the 1995 nuclear waste agreement with Idaho to allow commercial spent nuclear fuel to be sent...
For the first time since 2006, active-duty military personnel are being mobilized to assist with wildland firefighting. The National Interagency Fire Center announced the mobilization today, with roughly 95 large wildfires burning about 1.1 million acres in seven western states including Idaho. Aitor Bidaburu, chair…
Even as fires ravage landscapes across the west, restoration crews already are on the ground amid the smoke, starting work on plans to reseed and rehabilitate the burned wildlands. “There’s an urgent need,” said Tim Murphy, Idaho state director of the U.S. Bureau of Land...
The University of Idaho's College of Law plans to begin offering first-year law classes in Boise starting in 2017. The Moscow-based law school began offering classes for third-year law students in Boise in 2008, and expanded to second-year students in 2012....
Idaho high school juniors who took the SAT college entrance exam in April – and nearly all did, as the state pays for the test scored slightly lower than the previous year’s class, reports Idaho Education News, with math scores showing the most significant decrease,…
Federal funds are being made available to help the state of Idaho with firefighting costs for the Clearwater Complex fires in north-central Idaho, the Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security announced today. That news follows yesterday’s state disaster declaration for Lewis and Idaho counties for lightning-sparked…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has declined to launch an investigation against Planned Parenthood facilities in Idaho despite receiving a request from nearly 30 Republican state lawmakers. In an Aug. 6 letter, Otter...
Idaho’s state Board of Education today approved plans by Boise State University to build a new $40 million living-learning facility for BSU’s 600-student Honors College on the site of the former University Christian Church. The property is right across University Drive from the BSU Student…
Asked how things are going on finding a replacement for U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge, who took senior status July 3 but has been in a just-concluded terrorism trial ever since, with no replacement in sight, Sen. Mike Crapo told Eye on Boise, “They are…
Idaho Corrections Director Kevin Kempf is defending Idaho’s prison system, in response to a scathing ruling from U.S. District Judge David O. Carter that extended sanctions against the state in the long-running Balla case, a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates over the quality of health…
The first African American woman to pilot a U2 spy plane, the first female Admiral of the Southwest Navy Region, and other female leaders in applied mathematics, aviation, biomedical research, education, engineering, film, finance, gender studies, natural resource management, nonprofit services, opera, philanthropy, and technology...
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo is in the midst of an unprecedented series of open town-hall meetings across the state of Idaho, hitting towns large and small, talking about the national debt and taking questions. “We started last October,” Crapo said. “It really lends itself, I…
The Ketchum home where Ernest Hemingway wrote his last works before killing himself in the main entryway in 1961 has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Nature Conservancy owns the two-story, 2,500-square-foot house, the AP reports, and announced the listing this…
A jury in Idaho has convicted an Uzbek refugee of three terrorism-related charges after prosecutors said he worked to support a terrorist organization and gathered explosive materials in his Boise apartment. Fazliddin Kurbanov,...
The National Fire Preparedness Level is being raised to its highest point, PL-5, effective at 5:30 a.m. on Thursday – the first time it’s hit that level since August of 2013. The decision to raise the level, which was made by the National Multi-Agency Coordinating...
The U.S. Forest Service has seen a stunning shift in its operations and priorities, with the growing cost of fighting wildfires eating up much of the agency’s budget and “crippling” its ability to do anything else, according to a Forest Service report released last week.…
Former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig will go to court Oct. 7 to argue that he shouldn’t have to repay nearly a quarter-million dollars in campaign funds he used in connection with his 2007 arrest in a Minnesota airport bathroom sex sting, Roll Call reports today.…
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, along with Sen. Jim Risch and Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, visited the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise today to hear the latest, troubling news about this year’s difficult fire season, and speak out for legislation Crapo and Wyden have introduced…
A federal judge has sanctioned Idaho for misleading the court about medical and mental health care for inmates. The ruling from U.S. District Judge David Carter means that the Idaho Department of Correction will remain under the court's supervision until at least the fall of 2017...
People who rent out rooms in their homes to the public for temporary lodging are liable for sales and room taxes on those rentals, the Idaho State Tax Commission says; they’re reminding Idahoans they need to collect and remit those taxes. “As more people open…
Here’s a link to my full story at spokesman.com on today’s arguments before the Idaho Supreme Court on the “instant racing” bill, which passed the House and Senate overwhelmingly, and then was the target of a veto by Gov. Butch Otter, but the vetoed bill…
The U.S. Department of Energy has given Idaho a two-month deadline to waive parts of a 1995 agreement to clean up nuclear waste at a federal facility in southeast Idaho or lose doing important research work on spent nuclear fuel, says Idaho Department of Commerce…
Idaho is outgrowing its 208 area code and will need a second one by mid-2018, so the state Public Utilities Commission is asking Idahoans whether they want to be divided geographically between two area codes or just mix the new code in statewide. Either option...
This morning’s arguments in the instant racing case featured an extended exchange between Justice Daniel Eismann and Deputy Attorney General Brian Kane in which both repeatedly interrupted each other, voices were raised, and the justice accused Kane of “evading” his questions. At issue was whether...
In the Maine Supreme Court opinion that was submitted to Idaho justices in the instant racing case as a supplemental authority before this morning’s arguments, a footnote addresses the latin phrase “sine die,” or “without a day,” used to describe when the Legislature adjourns for…
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