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• Tuition tax credits bill passes Idaho House

  March 21, 2013 on Page A5 BOISE – The Idaho House narrowly approved a $10 million program to provide tax credits to businesses and individuals who fund scholarships for private and religious schools. Supporters say the … 9

• Idaho records

  March 21, 2013 on Page A6 For 03-21-2013

• Idaho House favors private school tax credits

  March 20, 2013 The House voted 35-33 for a tax break for those who donate to private and religious school scholarships, saying it will promote school choice for parents who don’t think the … 8

• Idaho House OKs cut in personal property tax

  March 20, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – The Idaho House voted 67-2 on Tuesday to eliminate the personal property tax on equipment for about 90 percent of Idaho businesses, favoring a plan by counties instead … 3

• House approves cookie tax exemption

  March 20, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – The Idaho House has voted 59-11 in favor of removing the state’s 6 percent sales tax on Girl Scout cookies. Idaho and Hawaii are the only states that … 2

• Spring arrives Wednesday with snow, rain, wind

  March 19, 2013 The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory on Wednesday for the Spokane region, Columbia Basin and parts of North Idaho. 5

• Idaho House passes Girl Scouts cookie tax exemption

  March 19, 2013 BOISE – The Idaho House has voted 59-11 in favor of removing the state’s 6 percent sales tax from Girl Scout cookies. 12

• Panel passes heavy-load bill

  March 19, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – Legislation to open nonfreeway routes in Idaho to extra-heavy trucks passed a state House committee over the objections of the two North Idaho lawmakers. The bill now moves … 2

• Bill challenges Idaho tribal casinos

  March 19, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – Gambling opponents in the Idaho Legislature launched a new attack Monday on tribal casinos in Idaho. Former Idaho Supreme Court Justice Robert Bakes, a gambling opponent, introduced a … 2

• Idaho panel backs extra-heavy trucks statewide

  March 18, 2013 An Idaho House committee has approved legislation that could open any non-freeway route in the state to extra-heavy trucks of up to 129,000 pounds, over the objections of the two … 1

• New bill targets tribal gaming in Idaho

  March 18, 2013 Gambling opponents launched a new attack on tribal casinos in Idaho on Monday on moral grounds, introducing legislation calling for a state-funded legal challenge, declaring tribal gaming machines unconstitutional and … 27

• Former owners take back Conkling Marina & Resort

  March 18, 2013 The previous owners of Conkling Marina & Resort on Lake Coeur d’Alene reclaimed the property in a public auction today.

• Tiny mammal a little loser during big climate shift

  March 18, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – Researcher Erik Beever has watched the effects of climate change play out in front of his eyes. The U.S. Geological Survey research biologist from Bozeman studies American pikas, … 5

• Eye on Boise: Private school tax break plan heads to House vote

  March 17, 2013 on Page B2 BOISE – Sen. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, says he believes his bill to provide $10 million a year in tax credits for scholarships to private schools would prompt 2,622 Idaho … 4

• Huckleberries: Sandpoint High grad has had papal beat for 25 years

  March 17, 2013 on Page B3 The selection of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the new pope wasn’t Cindy Wooden’s first papal rodeo. The Sandpoint native has covered three popes in her 25 years as the … 1

• Genocide prevention topic of human rights banquet

  March 15, 2013 A world expert on preventing genocide will be keynote speaker at the 16th annual human rights banquet in Coeur d’Alene next month. 13

• Parents filing grievance against CdA School Board

  March 14, 2013 The Coeur d’Alene School Board is accused of religious discrimination, fiscal irresponsibility and violations of ethics and Idaho’s open meetings law in a grievance filed Thursday by a group of … 14

• Idaho lawmakers call for crackdown on TV indecency

  March 14, 2013 BOISE - Idaho legislators want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on TV portrayals of premarital sex, including people joking about sex, lying in bed together or undressing. 40

• Health exchange moves to Idaho Senate

  March 14, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – North Idaho representatives split 7-7 late Wednesday as the Idaho House, after a feisty seven-hour debate, approved Gov. Butch Otter’s proposal for a state-based health insurance exchange on …

• Idaho dismissed from school lawsuit

  March 14, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – A state judge has agreed to dismiss the state from a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the fees many public schools charge for classes and the legality of …

• Idaho records

  March 14, 2013 on Page A7 For 03-14-2013

• Idaho House backs Otter’s exchange

  March 13, 2013 North Idaho representatives split 7-7 late Wednesday, as the Idaho House, after a feisty seven-hour debate, approved Gov. Butch Otter’s proposal for a state-based health insurance exchange on a 41-29 …

• Idaho X-ray tech bill not seeing light of day

  March 13, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – Idaho is one of six states with no training or certification requirements for those who run X-rays on medical patients, from simple pictures to CT scans and other … 1

• School levies pass in most North Idaho districts

  March 12, 2013 Coeur d’Alene voters said yes Tuesday to extending a tax levy that the school district leans on more heavily in a period of dwindling state support for education. 1

• Post Falls man arrested in death of teenager

  March 12, 2013 Dylan P. Paschall said the last time he saw Luke Anana-Kuewa, the teenager was alive. That was nearly one year ago after an evening of drinking rum and smoking marijuana … 8

• Idaho bill to license X-ray techs stalls

  March 12, 2013 Idaho is one of just six states with no training or certification requirements whatever for workers who run X-rays on patients, from simple pictures to CT scans and other complicated … 9

• Initiative limits bill clears Idaho Senate

  March 12, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – A bill making it tougher to put initiatives on the ballot cleared the Idaho Senate on Monday. Supporters of the legislation, which also apply to referenda, insist the … 3

• Scouts persuade House panel to back cookie tax break

  March 11, 2013 Girl Scouts from age 9 to adult appealed to an Idaho House committee on Monday to lift the state’s sales tax from their annual cookie sale, and they won over … 22

• Idaho Senate backs making ballot measures tougher

  March 11, 2013 The Idaho Senate voted today to make it tougher for initiatives or referenda to qualify for the state’s ballot, while saying repeatedly that the move had nothing to do with … 7

• Huckleberries: Potty mouth exchange at council sanitized

  March 10, 2013 on Page B2 New Coeur d’Alene City Clerk Renata McLeod is too proper to insert that nasty exchange between Councilman Steve Adams and City Attorney Mike Gridley in her draft minutes of the … 1

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