The Idaho Supreme Court has named a new administrative director: Sara Thomas, who currently is the state appellate public defender. She’ll start her new job on July 11; the hire followed an extensive national search. Thomas replaces Patti Tobias, who served as administrative director of...
The Idaho State Historical Museum, which is undergoing a major renovation and expansion, held a groundbreaking today for the multi-year project that drew more than 200 supporters, who enthusiastically cheered the project. Then, some took a “bare-walls” tour of the museum, which, for the first…
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is suing a small town in eastern Idaho for refusing to hand over an ambulance. The Post Register reports that fire officials in Swan Valley purchased an ambulance in 2012 using roughly $113,500 from a state grant, but the town has since lost its ambulance contract. Now the state says...
Idaho is part of a trend in which for-profit medical schools are starting to pop up around the country, the AP reports, promising to create new family doctors for underserved rural regions. The new for-profit Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine is scheduled to open to…
Idaho ranked No. 22 nationally in a new report that examines a range of child welfare issues, reports Idaho Education News, but the same study, KidsCount, gave Idaho lackluster scores on education issues, largely because of the lack of preschool. The Annie E. Casey Foundation…
The reward for information leading to the person or persons who illegally killed a federally protected grizzly bear and dumped it in eastern Idaho after removing some of its front claws is up to $21,200. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game...
Idaho Judge David C. Nye had his hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today as the nominee to be Idaho’s next federal district judge, and drew only positive comments. “Mr. Nye, you represent something I have never seen before,” said Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., who chaired the hearing, “a person that can get Crapo, Risch and Obama...
State and federal officials say Idaho faces an increased potential for rangeland wildfires in the south but forested areas in the north are in better shape at this point than last year. Wildland fire analyst Jeremy Sullens of the National Interagency Fire Center told the Idaho Land Board...
Officials with the U.S. Attorney’s office and the U.S. Marshal Service are warning of a telephone scam targeting people in the Boise, Pocatello and Twin Falls areas, in which the victims receive a message from a person claiming to be a deputy U.S. Marshal. When…
The Twin Falls Times-News reports today that Twin Falls Police Chief Craig Kingsbury and county Prosecutor Grant Loebs briefed the City Council and public last night about the June 2 incident that led to false internet reports about a gang-rape by Syrian refugees. The incident…
The U.S. Senate voted on four separate gun proposals yesterday; all failed. Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch voted in favor of the two Republican proposals, from Sens. Grassley and Cornyn, and against the two Democratic proposals, from Sens. Murphy and Feinstein. Here are...
Forty-one lakefront cabin sites on Priest Lake will be auctioned off Saturday by the Idaho Department of Lands at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. All of the sites currently have cabins on them, and are leased to the people who own the cabins; if someone else…
A story circulating on social media and anti-Muslim and conspiracy-oriented websites is falsely claiming that three young Syrian refugees raped a young girl at knifepoint at an apartment complex in Twin Falls that supposedly is the site where about 50 Syrian refugees had been resettled – when in fact, no Syrian refugees have been resettled...
No Democrat has represented North Idaho’s legislative District 2 since 1994, but newly retired St. Maries teacher Kathy Kahn thinks she’s got a shot, in her challenge to third-term Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens. First off, she and her campaign manager, former state Sen. Mike Blackbird, D-Post Falls, point to the numbers. Sure, Barbieri...
Eighteen current Idaho lawmakers are “double dipping” – receiving a state retirement pension while also receiving their legislative salaries, the Associated Press reports. The practice is both legal and private – their names aren’t disclosed. The highest state pension a current lawmaker is receiving is…
Officials in Ketchum have begun enforcing a city ordinance banning the use of cellphones while driving. KTVB-TV reports that the city of Ketchum passed the ordinance in April, but officials wanted to give residents enough time to learn about the new ban and put up signs. Currently, Ketchum and Sandpoint are the only Idaho cities...
At the Idaho Democratic Party’s three day state convention, which wrapped up over the weekend, delegates approved a resolution calling for changing the party’s current caucus system for presidential nominee selection to something more inclusive – something “at least as inclusive” as a primary election....
Idaho’s state Capitol was illuminated in bright rainbow colors over the weekend for Boise Pridefest, thanks to private sponsors and fundraising that’s still ongoing. This came after the state Department of Administration said it couldn’t do it. Here’s what state Rep. Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise, posted on Facebook over the weekend about the rainbow...
Idaho's unemployment rate in May remained unchanged from the previous month at 3.7 percent. The Idaho Department of Labor says gains in construction, financial activities and other services were offset by weaker-than-expected performance in manufacturing and wholesale trade...
Idaho’s top House and Senate leaders expressed optimism Friday that a new legislative panel can help state lawmakers resolve their differences and find a way to cover the 78,000 Idahoans who fall into a health coverage gap. House Speaker Scott Bedke and Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill named 10 lawmakers to a bipartisan “working group”...
The “Close the Gap Idaho” coalition has issued a statement expressing “optimism” about the legislative working group that was appointed today to study alternatives for the 78,000 Idahoans who fall into a health care coverage gap, based on their income. “We are eager to find…
All eight proposed legislative interim committees were approved today by the Legislative Council, in addition to three “interim working groups” that were set up by House Speaker Scott Bedke and Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill; some of the interim committees are continuing from past years,…
House Minority Leader John Rusche, D-Lewiston, asked why the legislative working group on Idaho’s “gap” population is entitled “Healthcare alternatives for citizens below 100 percent of poverty level.” “Since we don’t have a resolution, what exactly are you expecting for the scope of this?” he…
The Legislative Council, the leadership panel that administers legislative matters outside the legislative session, is meeting today, and high on its agenda is naming the members of the various interim legislative committees and task forces. Initially, they’ve gotten into a lengthy discussion about a proposed...
With the Idaho Democratic Party’s state convention under way in Garden City, here’s a look at a 90-year-old delegate from Bonners Ferry who’s a dedicated Bernie Sanders backer. Faye Morris has long cared about politics, but this is her first time as a convention delegate.…
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