Idaho’s state Department of Lands auctioned off 30 state-owned cabin sites at Payette Lake this afternoon for a total of $12.6 million. Twenty-five of the sites were already leased to people who owned cabins on them; all but two of those sold for the appraised…
Idaho's unemployment rate in July slightly bumped up from last month to 3.8 percent. The Idaho Department of Labor in a news release Friday says continued demand for workers and an increase in people looking for work caused the rate to move from the previous 3.7 percent. The last time the state's unemployment increased was in April 2015...
Never mind that the national Constitution Party has nominated Darrell Castle of Tennessee as its presidential candidate. When Idaho voters go to the polls in November, they’ll see the Rev. Scott Copeland of Texas on the line for the Constitution Party’s nominee. Copeland won Idaho’s first-ever Constitution Party presidential primary in March...
About 35 percent of this year’s Snake River sockeye salmon run hasn’t shown up at Lower Granite Dam, and the fish are probably dead, the Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday. S-R reporter Becky Kramer writes that about 1,240 adult Snake River sockeye were counted…
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