The Idaho Department of Insurance is warning Idaho drivers to watch out for deer, elk and other wildlife that are migrating to lower elevations; November is the peak month for deer-vehicle crashes. “We encourage drivers to be careful and pay attention to animals crossing highways,”…
The number of federal civil rights lawsuits brought by Idaho inmates is dropping, and could stay in the double digits this year for the first time since 2006, the AP reports. Some of the biggest reforms to Idaho's prison system, including court-ordered improvements to medical...
Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Risch from Idaho says he's throwing his support behind fellow GOP Sen. Marco Rubio for president. Risch announced his endorsement of the Florida politician on Wednesday. Risch says he's...
Today’s public forum on controversial Depression-era murals at the new Idaho Law & Justice Learning Center, the former longtime Ada County Courthouse and the stand-in state Capitol for two years while Idaho’s Capitol was being renovated, has wrapped up. “I deeply appreciate the courtesy that…
More testimony at today’s public forum on controversial historic murals: Buster Gibson, vice chairman of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribe, said, “We support the display of the murals, in order to show the history that has happened.” He said the tribe believes children need to know their...
In continuing testimony on two controversial historic murals at the former Ada County Courthouse, now the Idaho Law & Justice Learning Center: Dallas Gudgell, a Lakota who grew up on a Montana reservation and has lived in Boise since 2006, called for removing the murals.…
In continuing testimony on the lynching murals: Blaine Edmo, chairman of the business council for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, speaking by phone from Fort Hall, said, “They need to be openly displayed to remind our citizens of the state of Idaho of the history and the...
Among those speaking so far at the public meeting on the Depression-era lynching murals in the former Ada County Courthouse: Dean Mark Adams of the University of Idaho College of Law said his concern is whether the daily display of the murals, as law students,…
Close to 60 people have gathered for this afternoon’s stakeholders public forum on two controversial, historic murals at the new Idaho Law & Justice Learning Center, formerly the Capitol Annex and before that, the Ada County courthouse, which depict white settlers preparing to lynch a...
Results from yesterday’s local elections around the state saw Boise Mayor Dave Bieter and three incumbent city councilors re-elected; school bond and levy measures pass from the West Ada School District to the Bonneville School District in Idaho Falls; former Kootenai County Clerk Dan English...
The Tax Working Group has adjourned for today, and set its next meeting for Dec. 15, when it will likely review some conceptual draft legislation and take public comments. “We’ll draw up some legislation,” said Senate Tax Chairman Jeff Siddoway, R-Terreton. Public input, he said,…
Members of the Idaho Legislature’s Tax Working Group were queried after their last meeting and asked to prioritize various proposals that have come before the panel; their answers were tallied up, and the results presented just now. The item that came out on top –...
As the Idaho Legislature’s Tax Working Group continues meeting today, it’s hearing continued presentations; you can listen live here. A panel of CPAs focused on some specific complications in the Idaho income tax code, in which it departs from federal law; Suzanne Budge, lobbyist for...
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter today unveiled a new Idaho Medal of Achievement, which will be the highest civilian honor conferred by the state of Idaho, and will recognize one Idahoan each year, living or dead, for their “exceptional, meritorious and inspirational” service to the people…
Wayne Hoffman, president of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, called for cutting taxes, telling lawmakers on the Tax Working Group that North Carolina got good results when it cut its top individual income tax rate from 7.75 percent to 5.75 percent and its corporate rate from…
Ben Davenport, president of Associated Taxpayers of Idaho, a business group, ran through a long list of possible goals that lawmakers might have in changing state tax policy, including providing a stable funding source for education. “If your goal is to find a more stable…
Pam Eaton, president and CEO of the Idaho Retailers Association, told lawmakers on the Tax Working Group that if Idaho were to take the sales tax off groceries, it wouldn’t be easy to use the SNAP or food-stamp definitions, because those currently include broad definitions...
The Legislature’s Tax Working Group is meeting again this morning, with an agenda that includes an array of presentations, an update on the state’s general fund budget, and a half-hour discussion at the end of the meeting this afternoon, on next steps. You can see…
It’s Election Day across Idaho today, with mayor and city council races on the ballot, along with some school levies and local ballot measures. Boise Mayor Dave Bieter is facing a challenge from former Ada County Commissioner Judy Peavey-Derr and candidate Seth Holden, and Boiseans...
The Idaho Falls Post Register, which recently was sold to Minnesota-based Adams Publishing Group, has announced two major staff departures: Managing Editor Rob Thornberry left Oct. 31, and Editorial Page Editor Corey Taule will leave the paper Nov. 8. Thornberry has been with the newspaper...
GARDEN CITY, Idaho (AP) — Two men were injured at an Idaho gun show Saturday morning after a vendor from Washington state accidentally fired a rifle, Ada County Sheriff's officials said. A 74-year-old man reportedly was securing a rifle with a plastic zip tie at…
A crash between a car and a bull near a tiny Idaho town on Sunday turned into a bizarre tragedy when an armed rancher confronted Idaho deputies planning to shoot the animal that had charged rescuers, leading to a gunbattle that left the well-known businessman…
Idaho’s next area code, in addition to 208, will be 986. That news follows the Idaho Public Utilities Commission’s unanimous decision today to implement the new area code as a “geographic overlay,” meaning that it’ll go to new numbers statewide, starting in late 2017, but…
Tax-protesting former Idaho State Rep. Phil Hart successfully re-purchased his Athol home from the IRS at a public auction last month, but he missed an Oct. 22 deadline to pay the balance of the purchase price and is now appealing in court for more time....
For more than 86,000 Idahoans, health care reform has meant new, affordable options for health coverage, with an average premium, after federal subsidies, of just $65 a month. “Clearly, we offer a service that was needed,” said Pat Kelly, executive director of Your Health Idaho,…
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