Mon., June 24, 2013
The annual Idaho KidsCount survey, released today, shows more Idaho kids live in two-parent families than kids across the nation, but Idaho kids are faring worse in economic measures. The survey showed 20 percent of Idaho children lived in poverty in 2011, up from 18...
Mon., June 24, 2013
Deron Smith, director of public relations for the Boy Scouts of America, issued this statement today in response to the new federal lawsuit in Idaho: “Any instance of child victimization or abuse is intolerable and unacceptable. While we can’t comment on the lawsuit, we deeply...
Mon., June 24, 2013
Four former Idaho Boy Scouts, including a Spokane man, filed a federal lawsuit in Boise today charging that they were sexually abused by scout leaders during camping trips and other scouting events in the 1970s and 1980s. The lawsuit, which asks for at least $75,000...
Mon., June 24, 2013
Three members of Idaho’s four-member congressional delegation – Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch and 2nd District Rep. Mike Simpson – have issued statements on the passing of Velma Morrison, lauding her support for the arts in Idaho and mourning her passing. Here are their...
Mon., June 24, 2013
The U.S Forest Service has turned thumbs down on the first of nine megaloads of mining equipment bound for the Alberta tar sands proposed to travel across the winding, wild and scenic Highway 12 river corridor from the Port of Lewiston to Montana. "The authorization...
Mon., June 24, 2013
Philanthropist and patron of the arts Velma Morrison has died at the age of 92; the AP reports that she died of a heart attack. Morrison's daughter, Judyth Roberts, said Morrison was at her home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., when she died Thursday. Several buildings...
Fri., June 21, 2013
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A coalition of news organizations across Idaho is asking a federal judge to deny a proposed order that would give private prison company Corrections Corporations of America the power to seal whatever it...
Fri., June 21, 2013
The yellow ribbons, some tattered, some faded, can be seen long before state Highway 75 spills into Hailey, Idaho — home to America's only prisoner of war in its conflict with Afghanistan, writes AP reporter John Miller. They hang from roadside utility poles and in...
Fri., June 21, 2013
An Idaho cattle feedlot has reached a settlement with the EPA requiring it to pay $42,000 in fines for discharging pollutants into the Boise River, the AP reports The EPA said in 2011, W/T Land & Cattle, located on the banks of the river near...
Fri., June 21, 2013
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's unemployment rate edged up in May, in part because more people are looking for work. The Idaho Department of Labor says the labor force increased by 1,100 workers in May, pushing the...
Fri., June 21, 2013
Local officials from rural communities throughout Idaho said today that federal public lands have major and direct impacts on their everyday operations and challenges. During a panel at the McClure Center’s symposium at the Capitol Auditorium this morning, Owyhee County Treasurer Brenda Richards said, “There...
Fri., June 21, 2013
The University of Idaho’s McClure Center for Public Policy Research is holding a symposium on fiscal issues this morning, featuring Congressman Mike Simpson and Sen. Mike Crapo. The symposium is examining federal fiscal issues and their impact on local government; it’s taking place at the...
Thu., June 20, 2013
Idaho’s State Board of Education, meeting today in Twin Falls, approved 3 percent salary increases for the presidents of Boise State University, Idaho State University and Lewis-Clark State College; the board also extended the current contract term for each of them by an additional year....
Thu., June 20, 2013
Idaho’s gotten clearance from the country’s top education official to start field-testing its new high-stakes tests for students next year, and stop administering the Idaho Standards Achievement Test to avoid double-testing kids, except in cases where a student needs to take the ISAT to meet...
Thu., June 20, 2013
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The men's basketball coaches at Boise State and the University of Idaho have new contracts. The Idaho Board of Education on Thursday approved contracts for BSU coach Leon Rice and UI coach Don...
Thu., June 20, 2013
The Afghan Taliban is offering to free Idaho Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, held captive since 2009, in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, the AP reports. The offer comes as efforts are under way to jumpstart peace talks in...
Wed., June 19, 2013
The EPA is imposing a $2.5 million fine on a company that operates cement plants in nine states - including one along I-84 in eastern Oregon whose emissions blow into Idaho with the prevailing winds - for air pollution, and requiring the firm to invest...
Wed., June 19, 2013
1st District Rep. Raul Labrador says it’s not true that he’s being snubbed by Speaker John Boehner on a fundraising trip to North Idaho, an event scheduled for Friday in Coeur d’Alene; the Coeur d’Alene Press ran an article today suggesting Labrador may not have...
Wed., June 19, 2013
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal court judge in Idaho has appointed a security specialist in the case of an Uzbek national accused of terrorism-related crimes in Idaho and Utah, to vet potentially classified information in the...
Tue., June 18, 2013
Idaho prison leaders are looking for a new company to run the state's largest prison, the AP reports, after Corrections Corporation of America admitted to understaffing and overbilling for its work operating the Idaho Correctional Center. But the Idaho Department of Correction won't be allowed...
Tue., June 18, 2013
An Uzbek refugee accused of terrorism-related crimes in Idaho and Utah has a new lawyer whose resume includes successfully defending a man accused of murdering a federal agent and helping free a Saudi college student charged with working for a group funneling money to terrorists,...
Tue., June 18, 2013
Idaho has some of the nation’s lowest crime rates, but its prison population is growing quickly at a time when most states are seeing declines. So now all three branches of state government in Idaho – from the governor to the Supreme Court to the...
Tue., June 18, 2013
Idaho will auction off three new undeveloped cabin sites on Priest Lake this year, partly to get a sense of the true bare-land values as the state moves toward divesting itself of the numerous state-owned lots there on which renters have built and owned cabins...
Tue., June 18, 2013
A federal administrative law judge has rejected plans for suction dredge mining along a prized cutthroat trout stream in northern Idaho, the Lewiston Tribune reports. Judge Robert Holt, with the U.S. Department of Interior, concluded that recreation opportunities like fishing and camping and the archaeological...
Tue., June 18, 2013
Idaho’s gearing up for an above-normal fire season on state land, state forester David Groeschl told the state Land Board this morning, after Secretary of State Ben Ysursa inquired. “We’ve got some awful dry conditions,” Ysursa said. “What’s your crystal ball on the fire season...
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