Every downtown hotel has been booked for months, and good luck getting a dinner reservation – Boise is hosting its largest multi-day convention ever at its downtown convention center, and it’s North Carolina’s loss...
Idaho continues to experience pockets of severe nursing shortages while better paying jobs in surrounding states are attracting Idaho's nursing graduates, according to a recently released report from the Idaho Department of Labor. The report, issued late last month, found that southwestern Idaho faces the biggest challenge...
When Gov. Butch Otter’s 35-member Higher Education Task Force meets Friday at BSU’s Stueckle Sky Center, at least five of the eight member of Idaho’s state Board of Education – all eight are task force members – will be attending, which constitutes a quorum of…
If Lt. Gov. Brad Little wins his bid to be Idaho's next governor in 2018, he will be the only candidate to already have hands-on experience with the job. The two-term Republican has served as acting governor 373 times since taking over the second-in-command position in 2009, according to records requested by The Associated Press. Under the...
A debt-financing deal worth a half-billion dollars appears to cost Idaho hundreds of thousands more in interest and fees than similar offerings by other states, the Idaho Statesman reports, and a governor-appointed investment adviser wants a state board to review it.State Treasurer Ron Crane rejected the financial expert’s concerns as “erroneous...
From a new state Health & Welfare director to two new parole commissioners to an array of moves among the gubernatorial campaigns and lobbying groups, my Sunday column offers a roundup. Also, Sen. Crapo pushes to extend Secure Rural Schools funding, and 'dozens' turn out for Labrador-for-governor campaign stop in eastern Idaho...