The Idaho State Board of Education says footballs fans may continue to imbibe at campus games, but basketball boosters must remain dry. The Lewiston Tribune (http://bit.ly/1MVjzTV ) reports that on Wednesday the board approved extending alcohol sales in limited areas at Boise State University and…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Micron Foundation has given $25 million to Boise State University for the school's materials science program. The Idaho Statesman reports (http://bit.ly/1W6h7KG ) that the sum is nearly half of the cost of…
Idaho’s state Board of Education, meeting Wednesday in Lewiston, voted unanimously to take two steps back in the implementing of new standardized tests for students, at the urging of state schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra. The board’s votes mean 9th graders won’t be required to take…
After a secretive process that spanned more than a year, Idaho’s two U.S. senators appear to be proposing that Idaho’s next federal district judge – a lifetime appointment – be a little-known, 41-year-old Boise attorney whose law practice has been largely limited to environmental administrative...
State officials are looking at possible changes to grazing fees on 1.7 million acres of endowment land. The Idaho Land Board started the yearlong process Tuesday that could result in changes to a rate formula that has been in place since 1992...
Deputy Idaho Attorney General Brian Kane held up a copy of the light-blue Idaho Open Meeting Law Manual. “This is your ticket to the show, the show being government,” he told a crowd of nearly 60 people gathered at Boise State Public Radio’s riverfront public…
The Idaho Statesman has named Debra Leithauser as its new president and publisher. The newspaper reports that 44-year-old Leithauser has been president and publisher of McClatchy's Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania...
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Officials with the Idaho Supreme Court say the state's emergency solution to fill a $4 million funding gap for Idaho's court system has come up short. Retired Justice Linda Copple Trout says the...
The Idaho Department of Lands has set its next auction of state-owned lake cabin sites for Nov. 13 at Boise State University, where the state will auction off 22 lots at Payette Lake, 18 of them currently leased and four unleased. Since 2011, the state…
Although the Walker Fire east of Boise is now 100 percent contained, Idaho still hasn’t had a “season-ending event” – a sustained and wet enough storm to put an end to the fire season – state Forester David Groeschl told the state Land Board this...
What’s a public record? What’s not? What does the Idaho Open Meeting Law require? The public is invited to learn about those questions and more at a workshop Tuesday evening in Boise led by Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, and sponsored by Idahoans for Openness…
A bungled attempt at insurance fraud has netted a Pocatello man three years probation plus restitution and fines. The Idaho Attorney General’s office, which prosecuted the case after an investigation by the Idaho Department of Insurance’s fraud investigation unit, reports that Jeffrey J. Zausch, 28,…
A half-dozen pro-wolf activists from around the country demonstrated at the Idaho Statehouse today, and a woman from Virginia chained herself to the door of the governor’s office, demanding that Gov. Butch Otter respond to the group’s concerns. Otter, ironically, was in Virginia. Members of...
A late-season wildfire 40 miles northeast of Boise is 96 percent contained and Idaho's wildfire season appears to be coming to a close. Fire officials on Monday say more than an inch of rain has fallen on the 9-square-mile Walker Fire in the last several days and more wet weather...
Gov. Butch Otter has joined eight other governors, seven of them Democrats, in urging Congress to lift trade restrictions against Cuba, the Times-News reports. In a letter to congressional leaders, the nine governors argued that that American food and agriculture producers are losing market opportunities…
Tonight’s “Idaho Reports” focuses on nuclear waste, research and the Idaho National Laboratory; here, John Kotek, acting assistant secretary for nuclear energy for the U.S. Department of Energy, talks with co-hosts Aaron Kunz and Melissa Davlin. The programs includes Congressman Mike Simpson, Sens. Mike Crapo…
Idaho Department of Insurance Director Dean Cameron is praising new federal legislation signed into law on Sept. 28, backed by all members of Idaho’s congressional delegation, to amend the Affordable Care Act to allow states to define what constitutes a “small group” for insurance purposes.…
A group of lawmakers tasked with improving Idaho's public defense system is considering draft legislation that would clarify the jurisdiction of state appellate public defenders, track the workload of public defense attorneys and...
Idaho is just weeks away from enrolling up to 25 children with severe epilepsy in a free program to provide them with an experimental, non-psychoactive drug extracted from marijuana, under an executive order from Gov. Butch Otter. But estimates of the number of children eligible…
Lawmakers on the Natural Resources Interim Committee heard a series of updates on water issues in the state this morning, including presentations from Deputy Attorney General Clive Strong and two Idaho Department of Water Resources officials. House Speaker Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, said the state has…
Nearly 600 firefighters have arrived at a late-season wildfire burning in mountains about 40 miles northeast of Boise and on Friday had it 60 percent contained. Fire officials say eight helicopters are also taking part fighting the human-caused blaze that started Saturday and destroyed three cabins....
A group of lawmakers looking for ways to improve Idaho's contract system has pulled together a long list of possibilities, including increased training for contract managers, the creation of new ethics policies and whether agencies should be able to opt out of statewide purchasing agreements,…
Idaho has been granted another one-year extension on federal requirements to comply with the REAL ID Act, easing fears that Idahoans could soon be barred from using their state driver’s licenses to go through airport security or enter military bases or other federal installations. The…
The Idaho Media Initiative at Boise State University, which funded five reporting projects this year as part of its mission to promote civic engagement through public interest journalism, education, research and collaboration, will host a public discussion on “Why News Matters” this Saturday from 6-7:30…
The Idaho Supreme Court today overturned a lower-court ruling denying judicial confirmation for a lease-back arrangement on a downtown Boise convention center expansion, ruling instead that the lease doesn’t violate the Idaho Constitution’s debt restrictions. Justice Warren Jones’ opinion in Greater Boise Auditorium District vs....
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