The Obama administration’s decision Tuesday that the greater sage grouse does not require Endangered Species Act protections walks a fine line with its assertion that economic development and preservation can coexist across the bird's 11-state range, the AP reports. But critics from each side of…
More than 80 people gathered in McCall on Monday for an open meetings/public records seminar led by Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and put on by Idahoans for Openness in Government; they ranged from city, county and fire district officials to clerks, reporters, citizen watchdogs…
As Idaho moves into the realm of mastery-based education, the state is getting unpaid help from a prominent education reform group founded by Jeb Bush, reports Kevin Richert of Idaho EdNews. Bush, the presidential candidate and former Florida governor, founded the Foundation for Excellence in…
Gov. Butch Otter and all four members of Idaho's all-GOP congressional delegation were sharply critical today of federal land-management plans that accompanied the announcement that the feds won't protect the sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act, though all had been working to stave off such a listing...
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell was joined by the governors of Colorado, Nevada, Montana and Wyoming, along with the heads of the federal Fish & Wildlife Service, the BLM, the Forest Service, the National Resource Conservation Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, for...
Members of Idaho's Public Defense Commission say that without more authority, there's not much reason to keep working on statewide recommendations, the AP reports. Lawmakers created the commission in 2014, asking members to come up with quality standards to improve Idaho's problematic public defense system.…
Former Canyon County prosecutor and gubernatorial candidate John Bujak has resigned from the Idaho State Bar, ending proceedings in which the bar was attempting to have him disbarred on ethical grounds. "This should mark the end of my five-year battle with the state and federal…
Idaho house prices are going up, so the maximum homeowner’s exemption from property taxes for 2016 will rise 5.77 percent to $94,745, a third year of increases after four straight years of decreases. The exemption currently tops out at $89,580. Idaho allows homeowners to exempt...
A formal announcement is scheduled later this morning in Colorado, but the U.S. Interior Department has decided federal protections for the greater sage grouse are “not warranted” at this time, following costly efforts to reverse the species’ decline without reshaping the region’s economy. In a...
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