Federal officials on Monday released an ambitious wildfire-fighting and restoration plan to protect a wide swath of sagebrush country in much of the West that supports cattle ranching and is home to an imperiled bird. The 139-page plan is a how-to guide that follows Interior Secretary Sally Jewell's five-page secretarial order in early 2015...
Rep. Mark Nye, D-Pocatello, is running for the Senate, now that Democratic Sen. Roy Lacey has retired, and the GOP opponent who’s listed on the ballot as running against Nye is Tom Katsilometes. But that’s not the Tom Katsilometes who’s currently an Idaho state tax commissioner, a Democrat, and who was long a county commissioner...
One of the two candidates for the Idaho Supreme Court acknowledged in a televised debate Friday night that he’s never argued a case before either the Idaho Supreme Court or the Idaho Court of Appeals. Curt McKenzie said, “My experience has been in front of...
From my Sunday column: Idaho Gov. Butch Otter raises a legal concern about HJR 5, the constitutional amendment on the November ballot; and Bonner County Prosecutor Louis Marshall discusses harassment allegations ahead of the election...
Political donors have anted up more than $107,000 since September to support the state's only constitutional amendment on the November ballot, HJR 5, the AP reports, with the money coming almost exclusively from GOP lawmakers and lobbying groups...
Here’s a rundown from the Associated Press of some of Idaho’s competitive legislative races around the state, from District 1 up north to District 15 in Boise, and from Lewiston’s District 6 to Blaine, Camas, Gooding and Lincoln counties’ District 26...
In Idaho’s northernmost legislative district, the legislator who made headlines when she displayed the Confederate battle flag at a local parade and visited occupiers of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge standoff in Oregon is fighting for re-election in a race that’s drawing attention across the state. Controversial Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard...
North Idaho’s Legislative District 2 is among the most conservative in the state, and GOP incumbents Vito Barbieri and Eric Redman are hoping to keep it that way. Both face Democratic challengers in November, with longtime area teacher Kathy Kahn challenging Barbieri, and Richard Kohles,…
A dozen years ago, two of the three state lawmakers from Coeur d’Alene were Democrats. Now District 4, like the rest of the North Idaho Panhandle, is an all-GOP legislative stronghold. Local school board member and longtime resident Tom Hearn is hoping to change that…
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