Idaho's State Board of Education convened for a second time this week after facing criticism for making significant decisions regarding teacher evaluations and dual-credit options without adequately alerting the public. This time, the board backed the evaluation move, but rejected a proposal that would have tightened dual-credit options...
An environmental group has filed a lawsuit contending two federal agencies are violating the Endangered Species Act by failing to analyze how roads and motorized trails could be harming threatened bull trout in the Payette National Forest in west-central Idaho. The federal lawsuit filed by WildEarth Guardians...
Idaho education leaders were caught off guard by the state Board of Education’s move on Monday to crack down on false teacher evaluation data, including fines of $10,000 to $50,000 against non-compliant school administrators, Idaho EdNews reports. None had seen the language that received preliminary…
Gov. Butch Otter today named two new members to the Idaho Fish & Game Commission: Greg Cameron, a farmer from the Magic Valley; and Jerry Meyers, a retired longtime judge from North Fork, which is just north of Salmon. The two will replace Mark Doerr…
Donald Trump Jr. flew into Boise today for a fundraiser for his father’s presidential campaign, and also defended his controversial Twitter post comparing Syrian refugees to poisoned Skittles, blaming the media and political correctness for the outcry over the post. “I thought it was a…
Idaho’s state Board of Education has announced a special meeting this Friday at 8:30 a.m. Mountain time, via teleconference, in a re-do of a meeting that it held on Monday regarding proposals to the 2017 Legislature, including changes to teacher evaluation data provisions and dual...
The federal government's 5-year, $67 million rehabilitation effort following a 2015 rangeland wildfire in southwest Idaho and southeast Oregon is entering its second year with another round of herbicide applications combined with plantings of native species. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has started applying the herbicide Imazapic on...
The Idaho Attorney General’s office has announced that its constituent information and communications director, Todd Dvorak, is no longer with the office. “Out of respect for Todd’s privacy, we’re referring all questions to Todd,” said Deputy Attorney General Brian Kane. According to the Idaho court...
Four unleased, state-owned lakefront cabin sites on Priest Lake will be put up for public auction this Friday at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. Two of the four lots are vacant; the other two have existing cabins on them. Starting bids range from $486,800 to $576,800,...
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho (AP) — Students who want a Black Lives Matter movement mural to remain where it was painted on a high school parking space protested Wednesday against a superintendent's decision to remove it, while others…
James Piotrowski, the Democratic challenger to Idaho GOP Rep. Raul Labrador, was profiled in the Idaho Statesman yesterday, and featured in the “Citizen” feature of the Boise Weekly today. Both noted the Boise attorney’s court fight on behalf of seriously disabled Idahoans whose level of…
Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch and Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden are leading a bipartisan group of 29 senators calling for immediate action to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools program, which provides millions in payments each year to school districts and counties in timber-dependent…
When Chief Justice Jim Jones steps down from the Idaho Supreme Court come January, he'll leave a legacy as one of the state's biggest champions of promoting some free or reduced-rate work by lawyers throughout Idaho's judicial system. "It's part of the Idaho rules of professional conduct, it says lawyers should aspire to do at least 50 hours...
Idaho’s state Board of Education plans to rescind two decisions made during a special board meeting Monday and re-do the meeting in an effort to be more transparent, Idaho EdNews reports. “We’d rather make sure it’s right and that everybody feels like we did it…
The board of Idaho’s “Your Health Idaho” state insurance exchange today approved 225 health and dental insurance plans to be offered on the exchange in 2017, and announced that residents in all of Idaho’s 44 counties will have at least four health insurance carriers to…
Idaho’s top elected officials voted Tuesday to auction off nine state-owned commercial properties, five of them in downtown Boise near the Capitol – even as another state official warned the state will be sorry someday. The state Land Board is carrying out a plan to...
Lewiston Tribune political reporter Bill Spence’s recent 13-week reporting trip to Washington, D.C., yielded a boatload of interesting insights for his Idaho readers. Now, Spence is back in Idaho, and he’s sharing his experience with other Idaho reporters. Among his comments: “After watching the ‘pros’…
Idaho’s state Board of Education voted today to crack down on bad teacher evaluation data, reports Idaho EdNews, calling for imposing fines against school superintendents who deliberately send false data to the state. The board gave the idea its preliminary approval Monday morning, during a...
A joint investigation by The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity has found that opioid proponents are a major part of Idaho's political landscape, with donations from members of the Pain Control Forum – a group that touts prescription painkillers as improving the...
Idaho GOP U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo’s Democratic challenger, Jerry Sturgill, is criticizing Crapo over his 2013 DUI conviction, saying it shows that Washington has changed him. Both men are observant members of the Mormon church, which forbids consuming alcohol. And Crapo long had been known as a teetotaler, which made his drunken driving...
Active Network, the Texas-based vendor that runs the Idaho Fish & Game hunting and fishing license system, will offer two years of free identity protection and restoration services, plus a website where people can check to see if their information was potentially impacted, after a…
Professional stuntman Eddie Braun successfully jumped over the Snake River Canyon Friday afternoon in an ode to his boyhood idol, Evel Knievel, the AP reports. Braun soared over the southern Idaho canyon in a custom-built rocket dubbed "Evel Spirit." It launched off a...
“Idaho Reports” is back for the season. Tonight’s episode features a deep dive into shooting of Adams County rancher Jack Yantis by two local sheriff’s deputies. Co-hosts Melissa Davlin and Aaron Kunz also join a panel including City of Boise Office of Police Oversight Director…
Idaho’s state liquor laws that forbid nudity and simulations of sex-related acts at premises with liquor licenses are unconstitutional, according to a federal lawsuit filed yesterday by the Idaho ACLU, a theater company, a performance artist and the Visual Arts Collective, an art gallery and…
The city of Boise has more than $950,000 in unpaid parking tickets stemming from citations over the last seven years. KTVB-TV reports that city records show more than 47,000 parking tickets have gone unpaid since October 2009. Boise spokesman Mike Journee says the city can't revoke someone's driving privileges over unpaid tickets, but violators...
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