The Idaho Supreme Court restored a lawsuit against the state of Idaho over a tax incentive program for new or expanding companies. The Idaho Statesman reports Employers Resource Management Co. of Boise sued the state in 2016 after officials gave a tax incentive to Paylocity...
Ada County is moving to collect back taxes from state Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, for claiming a homeowner’s exemption for her Garden City home in 2016 while also claiming to be a resident of the north-central Idaho district where she was elected to the state House. “We’ve come across some information that leads me to believe that she...
President Donald Trump has appointed two Idahoans to serve in state director positions for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Layne Bangerter, former director of Trump’s election campaign in Idaho, was appointed Friday to become the state director for USDA Rural Development in Idaho. Rural development directors are tasked with improving...
Although child-killer Joseph Duncan waived his right to appeal his triple death sentence for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old North Idaho boy, Duncan, through a team of attorneys, is now pressing a series of continued challenges. That’s in part because more...
Jonathan D. Renfro, who was convicted last month in the shooting death of Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore, learned his fate from a panel of jurors Saturday morning. Their verdict: the death penalty. A Coeur d’Alene jury on Saturday called for executing Jonathan Renfro...
University of Idaho President Chuck Staben, who was a finalist to become president of the University of New Mexico, didn’t get the job, with the UNM Board of regents selecting another candidate, Garnett S. Stokes; she’ll be the school’s first female president and currently is…
Governors of 19 Western states are pressing the federal government to do more to prevent the spread of damage-causing invasive mussels from infected federally managed waterways. The Western Governors' Association on Thursday sent a letter urging Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to put in place by spring 2018 controls to prevent the spread...
Former three-term Idaho Congressman Orval Hansen has died at the age of 91. A Republican, he was noted for helping establish the Idaho National Laboratory, and for working with fellow Idaho congressmen and senators from both parties on such major accomplishments as the creation of...
Voter-approved supplemental tax levies in Idaho school districts are up to $194.7 million this year, an all-time record, Idaho Education News reports. And 93 of the state’s 115 districts have the levies in place to help fill gaps in state funding for local schools, a…
A military judge has found that Bowe Bergdahl should serve no prison time for endangering his comrades by walking off his Afghanistan post. The judge also gave Bergdahl a dishonorable discharge, reduced his rank to private and said he must forfeit pay equal to...
Ada County is moving to collect back taxes from state Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, for claiming a homeowner’s exemption for her Garden City home in 2016 while also claiming to be a resident of the north-central Idaho district where she was elected to the…
Just in time for this weekend’s 67th annual Ski Swap at Expo Idaho in Boise, Tamarack Resort is reporting 17 new inches of snow since 3 p.m. yesterday – that’s right, 17 inches. And it’s still snowing there. And snow magnet Grand Targhee is reporting...
The Idaho Democratic Party has named Elle Casner as its new executive director; she’s served as the party’s chief financial officer since 2015. “Elle’s experience in the fundraising and political sector will serve the organization well as we lay the groundwork and strategy to expand…
A Boise woman plans to make a miniature vacation rental home – and roadside attraction – out of the 6-ton replica Russet Burbank that's traversed the U.S. since 2011 aboard the Idaho Potato Commission's Great Big Idaho Potato Truck. “This has been something I have…
A.J. Balukoff, who ran as the Democratic challenger to Gov. Butch Otter in 2014, filed his paperwork today to begin fundraising for another run for governor of Idaho in 2018. “I think people need a choice besides what’s going on on the Republican side,” Balukoff…
With city elections coming up next week, the Idaho Falls Post Register reports today that a political action committee that purported to represent a movement of concerned Idaho Falls businessmen and has spent thousands to campaign against Idaho Falls Mayor Rebecca Casper has received nearly…
Responding to deadly wildfires in California and the West, House Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill to allow faster approval for logging and other actions to reduce the risk of fire in national forests. The House voted 232-188 to loosen environmental regulations for forest-thinning projects on federal lands...
Lt. Gov. Brad Little’s campaign had no comment today on rival Raul Labrador’s endorsement by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2018 Idaho gubernatorial race, but said it would have an endorsement announcement of its own today. It’s out now, and it’s from Gem County Commission chairman and former Emmett mayor Bill Butticci. “It is humbling to have...
David Johnston, campaign manager for GOP gubernatorial Tommy Ahlquist, had this comment on rival Raul Labrador’s endorsement today by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz: "No surprise here that D.C. politicians and their special interest groups are supporting another D.C. politician. Is Congressman Labrador running for Congress…
A new political action committee dedicated to supporting allies of Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky announced today that it will support Raul Labrador in the race for Idaho governor in 2018, the AP reports. The Protect Freedom PAC, headed by GOP operative Michael…
Idaho 1st District GOP Rep. Raul Labrador announced today that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is endorsing Labrador for governor of Idaho in 2018. Cruz, who won Idaho’s 13-candidate 2016 GOP presidential primary with 45.4 percent of the vote to Donald Trump’s 28.1 percent, said in...
Open enrollment starts today on Idaho’s state insurance exchange, Your Health Idaho, and runs through Dec. 15. There are 299 plans being offered on the Idaho exchange this year, from four medical insurance providers and three dental. “Idahoans still have a robust choice of plans…
The criminal investigation that prompted the abrupt resignation of state Rep. Brandon Hixon, R-Caldwell, involves sexual abuse allegations, the Idaho Statesman reports today, and Hixon was investigated for a similar allegation in 2014. The Statesman reports that Canyon County Prosecutor Bryan Taylor asked Attorney General...
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