Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on today's meeting of Gov. Butch Otter's transportation funding task force, which voted unanimously to accept a new state-commissioned cost-allocation study showing car owners are overpaying for Idaho roads while heavy trucks underpay, but expressed strong…
The two Idaho Fish & Game fisheries biologists who were killed in a helicopter crash this morning in Kamiah have been identified as Larry Barrett, 47, of Lewiston, who's worked for Fish & Game since 1985; and Dani Schiff, 34, of Lewiston, who's worked for…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: EMMETT, Idaho (AP) — A 3-year-old child was handling an Emmett Police Department officer's weapon that discharged and injured three people on Aug. 6. The Idaho Statesman reports the agency has been accused of a cover-up in…
A subcommittee of Gov. Butch Otter's transportation funding task force on public transportation has come back to the full panel with recommendations for allowing local-option taxes, including local sales taxes, an expanded resort tax for larger cities or counties, property tax options and impact fees.…
With all the road construction going on around the state right now, don't worry about it causing traffic tie-ups over the Labor Day holiday weekend - ITD has announced that all its highway construction projects will be suspended for the holiday weekend, excepting only those…
The Lewiston Tribune has reported that the third person involved in the crash of a helicopter carrying two Fish & Game biologists and a pilot in Kamiah today has died.
This morning's helicopter crash in Kamiah involved two Idaho Fish & Game fisheries biologists and a pilot; two people died, and one of the biologists was hospitalized in Orofino. Identification of the victims is being withheld pending notification of the families. Fish & Game reported…
Gov. Butch Otter's transportation funding task force has voted unanimously to accept the state's new cost-allocation study, which shows that heavy trucks are underpaying for their wear and tear on Idaho's highways, while owners of cars and light pickups are overpaying. The panel's acceptance, however,…
As the governor's transportation funding task force opened its meeting this morning, one member, Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, took the opportunity to formally disclose a possible conflict of interest. She both made a statement and submitted a written notice, noting, "My private sector employer is…
Idaho is one of seven states that are suing to overturn the federal health-care reform law, while also claiming subsidies under it for retired state workers. Click below for a full report from the AP in Washington, D.C.
Here's a news item from the Associated Press about the Idaho Correctional Center, the privately operated state prison south of Boise operated by Corrections Corp. of America that's currently the target of a huge lawsuit over prison violence: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Traces of the…
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