Members of a joint legislative committee charged with crafting reforms for Idaho’s public defense system reviewed draft legislation today, and though members of the panel objected to nearly every line and section in the bill, they’re calling it progress...
It’s snow time, folks. The mountains above Boise are frosted white, and Idaho ski resorts are reporting impressive snow totals and looking ahead to opening for the season. None are actually open yet, but Grand Targhee, just over the state line in Wyoming, has announced...
Idaho’s average gas price has dropped to $2.26, just five cents above the national average and the lowest price Idahoans have paid on this date since 2004, the AAA reports. “Idahoans have been on a wild rollercoaster ride this year, paying among both the lowest…
This week is College Application Week across the state, sponsored by the state Board of Education and proclaimed by Gov. Butch Otter. It’s also the week that thousands of letters from Gov. Butch Otter and state Board of Education President Don Soltman are expected to…
A group of Idaho workers have brought a civil rights complaint against the state's worker compensation agency for only providing services in English, the AP reports. Erik Johnson, an attorney with Idaho Legal Aid Services, filed the federal complaint against the Idaho Industrial Commission on...
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter says he would have preferred the sage grouse receive federal Endangered Species Act protections rather than navigate new federal regulations designed to protect the bird's habitat. Otter spoke to land management officials on Tuesday...
A former Idaho man’s problems convincing the state of Pennsylvania he should have the right to bear arms landed in the Idaho Supreme Court today, as the justices heard an appeal from a lower-court ruling. Fourth District Judge Lynn Norton ruled in 2014 that Todd…
The board of the West Ada School District, the state’s largest, voted in a special meeting last night to decline Superintendent Linda Clark’s resignation and instead terminate her contract, charging that she “abandoned” her job and committed an ethics violation. The Idaho Press-Tribune has a…