The recount is complete in an Ada County commissioner’s race – and the result was identical to that recorded on election night, with former Commissioner Sharon Ullman losing to current Commissioner Dave Case by 1,301 votes. “The results ended up exactly the same,” Chief Deputy…
A $50 million-a-year state contract to provide dental insurance coverage for Idaho’s poor is on hold amid complaints of unfair bidding competition. Blue Cross had held Idaho’s Medicaid dental contract since 2010, but lost its hold on the program serving 277,000 people to Florida-based MCNA Dental, which has been winning similar contracts...
Idaho’s State Board of Education today voted to ban alcohol sales at most home football games at Idaho universities for the coming season – including to ticket-holders at Boise State University and University of Idaho games. VIPs at BSU games still will be able to…
The Idaho Capitol won't be bathed in rainbow hues like other public buildings across the county, officials say, unless gay pride organizers bring their own lights. Boise Pridefest culminates this weekend with a festival in the park in front of the Capitol, but state officials denied organizers' request for rainbow lighting...
Ada County election officials will recount votes for the county Commissioner District 3 seat at the request of an unsuccessful candidate. Sharon Ullman's request for a recount of six precincts comes after she lost in the May Republican primary to current Commissioner Dave Case. The Idaho Attorney General's and Secretary of State's offices...
The House Natural Resources Committee approved Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador's public lands bill on a 25-13 party-line vote Wednesday, reports Bill Spence of the Lewiston Tribune, who is reporting from Washington, D.C. The Self-Sufficient Community Lands Act would allow states to select as many as…
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing next Tuesday, June 21, on the nomination of Idaho District Judge David Nye of Pocatello to be Idaho’s next federal district judge, replacing longtime, retired Judge Edward Lodge. Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch announced today…
After all the fuss in Idaho GOP circles from when eastern Idaho GOP activist Doyle Beck surreptitiously recorded a conversation with state GOP Chairman Steve Yates and used the recording to claim evidence of a “secret society” within the party bent on undermining him, there’s…
Idaho’s new SAT scores are in, and the scores on the college-entrance exam are a mixed bag, reports Idaho Education News. Students taking the exam in April – Idaho pays for all students to take the SAT – posted an average score of 511 on...
A southwest Idaho man who illegally killed a trophy bighorn sheep has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $10,000. Fifty-three-year-old Paul Cortez of Nampa also received a lifetime hunting ban at his sentencing...
Three of the four members of Idaho’s congressional delegation have weighed in on the Orlando shooting; Sen. Mike Crapo and 2nd District Rep. Mike Simpson both issued statements, while Sen. Jim Risch went on CNN with Wolf Blitzer and gave an extensive interview yesterday. There’s…
The Wassmuth Center for Human Rights, which is holding its annual summer institute in Boise this week, has decided in the wake of the Orlando shooting to open up several of its sessions to the public for free; they focus on issues relating to inclusion,…
Security has been stepped up at the Idaho Attorney General’s office, the Idaho Statesman reported over the weekend, after several incidents, including one in which an agitated, threatening man demanded to see Attorney General Lawrence Wasden; and another in which an armed group entered the…
The Idaho Maximum Security Institution, also known as the Max, remains in partial lockdown today, after a fight between eight to 10 inmates in a day room on Saturday afternoon. No inmates or staff members were seriously injured, according to Idaho Department of Correction spokesman…
Vigils were held across the state last night in memory of the victims of the horrific mass shooting in Orlando over the weekend, in Boise, Twin Falls, Idaho Falls and Moscow. Another is set for tonight at 6 p.m. at Farmin Park in Sandpoint, according...
Hispanics accounted for 42 percent of the enrollment growth in Idaho’s public schools in the last five years, according to a new report from the University of Idaho’s McClure Center for Public Policy Research. In fact, 10 Idaho school districts – and eight Idaho counties, including Boundary County – would have lost population from 2010 to 2014...
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden has announced a settlement with Doyle Beck and Chick Heileson over campaign finance violations, with each agreeing to pay a $250 civil fine along with filing amended reports. “It’s important for Idaho’s citizens to know the source of contributions in…
The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation has received $40,000 in corporate sponsorships since getting legislative approval nearly a year ago to reach out to businesses to help offset the agency's depleted budget. The amount is double the estimated $20,000 department officials hoped to secure...
Descendants of the Native American people who originally inhabited the Boise Valley will return for the sixth annual “Return of the Boise Valley People” event tomorrow through Sunday at Quarry View Park in Boise, with the public invited Friday, starting at 10:30 a.m., to learn...
James Piotrowski, the Democrat who’s challenging Idaho GOP 1st District Rep. Raul Labrador, sent out a news release today calling on Labrador to clarify how he can support presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump after Trump’s comments about a federal judge and the judge’s Mexican...
Idaho’s childhood immunization numbers are up, reports Idaho EdNews, hitting a five-year high. Overall in 2015-2016, 86.7 percent of Idaho students were considered “adequately immunized,” up from 85.6 percent a year earlier. For public health officials who have been battling to boost Idaho’s lagging immunization…
A woman who worked for a Boise pension services company has pleaded guilty to federal charges of wire fraud for embezzling $852,041 from St. Luke’s Health System, while administering its employee flexible spending accounts. Sara Curnow, 45, who served as FSA administrator at Pinnacle Pension…
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo announced last night that he’s secured final passage of “Trevor’s Law,” legislation named for a young Boise man who survived brain cancer, aimed at tracking childhood and adult cancer clusters nationwide. The bill, which passed the Senate last night on a...
Idaho 2nd District GOP Congressman Mike Simpson has joined Sen. Mike Crapo in decrying Donald Trump’s comments that a federal judge can’t be fair in his Trump University fraud case because he is of Mexican heritage. Here is Simpson’s statement: "America is a country where...
As part of a lawsuit settlement, the EPA is retracting its approval of Idaho’s water quality standards for arsenic, and will re-evaluate them between now and September, the AP reports; if the agency rejects the Idaho standards, the state will have until 2019 to come up with a new proposal...
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