Close to 150 people gathered in the rotunda of the state Capitol today to offer their well-wishes to longtime Secretary of State Ben Ysursa, who is retiring after 12 years as Idaho’s elected secretary of state and 40 years in the office. Here, folks are…
Bogus Basin has announced that, thanks to a foot of new snow in the past 72 hours, it will open the No. 6 Pine Creek chairlift on the mountain’s backside on Tuesday, starting at noon. That’s a big step, opening up much more terrain at…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter said today that he’ll confer with the other members of the state’s Constitutional Defense Council – the speaker of the House, president pro-tem of the Senate, and Attorney General – before calling a meeting of the council to pay a new…
When the Idaho Legislature appropriated $1 million to the state Constitutional Defense Fund this year, some protested that they didn’t want to put that much money toward litigation against gay marriage. The money wasn’t tabbed for any particular case; it merely refilled the fund that,…
Deborah Ferguson, lead attorney for the four Idaho couples who successfully sued to overturn Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriage, issued this statement on the order for the state to pay $401,663 of their attorney fees and costs: “Judge Dale found our request for attorneys fees…
The state of Idaho must pay more than $400,000 in attorney fees and costs to the lawyers who represented the four lesbian couples who successfully sued to overturn the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, a federal court has ruled. “There is no dispute that Plaintiffs…
After 40 years in state government, Ben Ysursa has some strong opinions about how things ought to work in Idaho – and how, on occasion, they have. For example, when both of the state's political parties came together, working side by side, they successfully passed…
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