Idaho has much at stake in Washington's big U.S. Supreme Court case over whether referendum petition signatures should be public or not. "Our initiative and referendum statute is very similar to Washington's and Oregon's," said Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa, at whose request Idaho…
Idaho's state Department of Agriculture plans to open its first boat-inspection stations of the season tomorrow, near Bruneau where highways 51 and 78 intersect, and near Marsing on Highway 95. An additional check station on U.S. 93 just north of the Nevada state line will…
Idaho's congressional delegation - Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch and Congressmen Walt Minnick and Mike Simpson - issued the following statement on the big Idaho Guard deployment to Iraq announced today: “First and foremost, our thoughts are with the families whose loved ones will…
More than 2,700 members of the Idaho Army National Guard's 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, shown here training near Gowen Field, are being mobilized in September for deployment to Iraq, the guard announced today. About 1,500 of the Guard members being deployed are from Idaho;…
In Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden's legal challenge of the Land Board's cabin-site rent decision, the Idaho Supreme Court has ordered oral arguments, to be held June 9 before the Supreme Court. Wasden, a member of the Land Board, last month challenged the constitutionality of…
Michael Chadwick of Post Falls has announced he's withdrawing from the race and endorsing GOP rival Raul Labrador, and also launching a campaign for the U.S. Senate in the 2014 election. That's when current U.S. Sen. Jim Risch's term in office ends; Chadwick didn't say…
Congressional candidate Raul Labrador is touting his endorsement from "Idaho Chooses Life," an anti-abortion lobbying group headed by activist David Ripley, which endorsed Labrador after declaring that he, Vaughn Ward and Harley Brown, all running in the GOP primary race for the 1st District congressional…
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