Low-income Idaho homeowners who also are elderly, disabled, widowed or former prisoners of war or hostages have until April 18 to apply for a property tax reduction under the state’s “circuit breaker” program. The state Tax Commission says applicants can have 2016 income of up…
Get ready for solar eclipse mania. Destinations in the path of the Aug. 21 eclipse, which will be visible in the U.S. along a narrow path from Oregon to South Carolina, are going wild with plans for festivals, concerts and viewing parties. Rooms at Idaho's Sun Valley Resort have been booked for years...
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown ordered a state agency Tuesday to drop its lawsuit against a newspaper that sought public records about a man charged in the kidnapping and killing of his ex-wife. The records pertain to Anthony Montwheeler, who was discharged from the state mental hospital in December after telling the Oregon Psychiatric Security Review...
Gov. Butch Otter today signed into law all seven bills that make up the public school budget, and also signed into law the budgets that state lawmakers passed for Medicaid, parks, community colleges, career-technical education, the Department of Agriculture, and the Wolf Control Depredation Board,…
The Idaho State Tax Commission is refusing to disclose details about an online sales tax deal with Amazon, which went into effect over the weekend, the AP reports. The agreement allows the giant e-commerce company to start collecting sales tax for the state on internet purchases shipped to Idaho...
Environmental and animal-welfare groups have filed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. government is violating the Endangered Species Act by allowing the use of two predator-killing poisons. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Montana...
The #ToleranceMeans Dialogues, a lecture series designed by professors at the University of Illinois and Yale University to directly engage millenials, arrive in Idaho today, with a session at the state Capitol at 5 p.m. entitled, “Religion and Child Welfare: Do they have to be…
A Boise man who was once a plaintiff in a high-profile anti-panhandling lawsuit has registered as a Republican candidate for Idaho governor. Troy Minton joins an increasingly crowded race. With Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter saying he will not seek a fourth term in 2018, the race already has three competitive GOP candidates...
Idaho House Minority Leader Mat Erpelding, responding to Gov. Butch Otter’s press conference yesterday on this year’s Idaho legislative session, is urging Otter to sign the grocery tax repeal bill into law. “This is a tax cut that will help tens of thousands of working…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter said Monday that he gives lawmakers high marks for their just-completed legislative session – but also some “incompletes” – and he wouldn’t say whether he’d sign or veto key pieces of legislation, including the bill to repeal Idaho’s 6 percent sales tax on groceries...
The Idaho Falls Post Register reports today that Rep. Janet Trujillo, R-Idaho Falls, who married House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, in December, claimed thousands of dollars worth of per-diem for maintaining a second residence in the Boise area during the legislative session and refused…
At his press conference this afternoon on this year’s legislative session, Gov. Butch Otter said he received a rejection from FEMA for his request for a major disaster declaration, and he’s appealing it. That’s part of Otter’s concern over the state budget, concern that he…
Here’s Lt. Gov. Brad Little’s full statement urging Gov. Butch Otter to sign HB 67, the grocery tax repeal bill, into law: “Fairness and competitiveness are two essentials for Idaho’s tax system. This is why I support the Legislature’s vote to repeal the sales tax…
Gov. Butch Otter wouldn’t say today whether he’ll veto the bill to repeal Idaho’s 6 percent sales tax on groceries, but as he responded to the just-concluded legislative session, Otter focused mostly on his concerns about the state general fund and how Idaho will be…
Gov. Butch Otter will give his response to the just-concluded legislative session today, in a press conference at his office at 2 p.m. You can watch live here.
Four big issues were supposed to dominate this year’s Idaho legislative session: Health care, education, transportation and taxes. But when the gavel fell last week on the stormy 80-day session...
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