Tonight’s “Idaho Reports” on Idaho Public Television includes co-host Melissa Davlin’s interview with Sen. Jim Risch about Iran, the budget, and federal involvement on issues important to Idaho; an update on shipments of nuclear fuel that had been bound for Idaho; and discussion of upcoming…
As the Idaho Legislature’s Tax Working Group ponders whether to cut Idaho’s income tax rates in an effort to spur economic growth – as Idaho did previously in 2012 and 2001, with mixed results – we asked three Idaho economists whether cuts like those would…
Five years after natural gas was discovered in Payette County, the industry is reaching commercial production levels, the Idaho Statesman reports, but few are happy with the way development has proceeded. Residents who will have drilling operations as new nearby neighbors are worried that the…
Five years after shifting to a four-day schedule, the Preston School District is now reviewing whether it should switch back. Idaho EdNews reports that the change was originally branded as temporary, until state funding improved; now the district is surveying parents and debating everything from…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: MCCALL, Idaho (AP) — A resort town of nearly 3,000 people could become the first city in Idaho to adopt a minimum wage. KBOI-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1ReWZ7S) that voters in McCall, about 100 miles north of Boise, will…
Negotiations between the federal government and the state over sending a shipment of spent nuclear fuel to Idaho collapsed amid mounting concerns a nearly $600 million waste-treatment facility at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho might never operate, the AP reports. Letters between the…
Layers of fog streak across Boise on this pretty fall morning, with a bit of sunlight above...
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter said Wednesday that he wants to see instant racing terminals return in Idaho with tighter regulations, the AP reports. "Let's start with the steps I laid out in my veto message last winter: Creation of a state gaming commission to set...
Idaho State Police say they will investigate an anonymous complaint related to a private nonprofit run by the Canyon County sheriff. The Idaho Press-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1GJvQtt ) that police announced Tuesday that a preliminary investigation by the state attorney general's office found enough evidence to warrant...
A high-profile committee working to iron out differences between Cassia County and the city of Burley over policing accidentally copied reporters on an email this week instructing its members to mislead the media if journalists or a city council candidate came to its next meeting,…
The public is invited to view wild horses that were gathered from the Soda Fire area at the BLM Wild Horse Corrals south of Boise this Thursday and Friday afternoons, from 1-3 p.m; about 30 of them will be put up for adoption, while most…
Idaho Department of Administration Director Bob Geddes has called a public meeting of stakeholders Nov. 4 to discuss the historic murals in the new Idaho Law & Justice Learning Center, the former Capitol Annex that long served as the Ada County Courthouse. The Depression-era murals…
Lawsuits challenging new U.S. policies intended to protect the greater sage grouse could backfire and force reconsideration of the recent decision not to list the bird as endangered, federal land managers are warning. The AP reports that legal filings in a Nevada lawsuit by Justice…
Idaho GOP Sen. Mike Crapo announced today that former Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, also a Republican and former Idaho senator, has endorsed Crapo’s re-election bid, something that’s hardly a surprise. Crapo is seeking a fourth six-year term in the Senate, after serving three terms in...
Bogus Basin, Boise’s non-profit ski area and the largest non-profit ski resort in the country, has named a new general manager: Brad Wilson, who had been general manager at Diamond Peak Ski Resort in Incline Village, Nev., at Lake Tahoe for the past four years,…
Boise State University has received a $498,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to establish a “Center for Excellence for Veteran Student Success.” BSU is one of 13 colleges receiving grants nationwide; it's the only one in Idaho. The three-year grant will support veteran…
Arguments in a lawsuit involving inadvertent trapping of federally protected Canada lynx and that could restrict trapping across much of Idaho are set for Tuesday in Boise. The lawsuit says Idaho is violating the Endangered Species Act by allowing recreational trapping...
If a proposed initiative to raise Idaho’s cigarette tax by $1.50 a pack and use most of the proceeds to lower state college and university tuition were to make the ballot, it’d have an easy shot at passage, according to a new poll conducted by…
Tonight’s “Idaho Reports” on Idaho Public Television focuses on the newly passed, landmark legislation to designate the Boulder-White Clouds as wilderness, and features an interview with 2nd District Congressman Mike Simpson, who worked for 15 years to work out a wilderness bill that could draw…
Federal authorities have canceled a proposed research shipment of spent nuclear fuel to eastern Idaho. Idaho National Laboratory Director Mark Peters in a letter to employees Friday afternoon says the U.S. Department of...
West Ada School District Superintendent Linda Clark announced today that she is resigning under pressure from new school district trustees, who she said demanded that she stay on until the day after the upcoming Nov. 3 levy election, then resign. “The board’s final offer literally…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials hope to capture an estimated 31 wild horses in southwestern Idaho that eluded an emergency helicopter gather following a giant wildfire. U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say the horses need…
Idaho lawmakers have been budgeting so conservatively for state programs and services that the state is on track to end the current fiscal year on June 30 with a $108 million surplus, and if the state sees moderate revenue growth in the coming year of...
An Idaho man has filed a lawsuit against the federal government because he says his personal information was compromised as part of a massive data breach of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Victor Hobbs, an aviation safety inspector for the Federal Aviation Administration in…
Nearly a fifth of Idaho kindergartners could qualify for a proposed new state-funded, all-day kindergarten program aimed at students who are struggling with reading, Idaho EdNews reports; the plan is being pushed by the state Board of Education and would carry an annual price tag…
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