After years of debate in the Idaho Legislature, bigger, heavier trucks – up to 129,000 pounds – could be headed for North Idaho highways, including Highway 95 from the Canadian border to Coeur d’Alene. S-R reporter Becky Kramer reports that two firms have applied for…
Three state agencies currently face a housing crisis after being alerted that owners of their Boise building have accepted an offer from St. Luke's Health System. The pending sale has sparked pleas from state officials that Idaho lawmakers find a better long-term solution for state office space, rather than funding continual, pricey moves...
As part of a voter guide my newspaper is putting together for the upcoming election, I was tasked with asking a series of questions of all the candidates for the Idaho Legislature who are running in contested races in Districts 1 through 4 in North…
Idaho Power’s ongoing cloud-seeding operation in southwestern Idaho, which the company estimates increased the snowpack in the Payette watershed where it’s centered by 11.5 percent last winter, will be at the center of a National Science Foundation-funded study of the physics of cloud seeding. The…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials are fining the federal government after the U.S. Department of Energy failed to start a radioactive waste treatment facility before the deadline. The Post Register reports (http://bit.ly/2cStK11 ) that DOE…
An eastern Idaho judge has ruled a sexual harassment lawsuit against Idaho State University can move forward. The Idaho State Journal reports in a story on Wednesday that 6th District Court Judge Robert Naftz rejected the school's request to kill the case. The woman in the lawsuit filed in 2015 says that after she complained...
Idaho’s state Board of Education and the Legislature’s interim committee that’s studying possible updates to the public school funding formula have launched an online public opinion survey to gather public input on how Idaho schools are funded. The interim committee’s co-chairs, Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho…
The Navy and U.S. Department of Energy want to build a $1.6 billion facility at a nuclear site in eastern Idaho that would handle fuel waste from the nation's fleet of nuclear-powered warships through at least 2060, the AP reports.The new facility would keep nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines deployed, according to an environmental...
Federal safety authorities have fined a southwest Idaho company $77,000 following the deaths of two workers in a trench collapse in Boise. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Tuesday issued the fines to Meridian-based Hard Rock Construction. Thirty-six-year-old Bert Smith and 26-year-old Ernesto Saucedo died...
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo introduced legislation Monday aimed at cutting wait times for veterans seeking health care, and making other changes to the current Veterans Choice Program. Under the bill, a new "Care in the Community Program" would let veterans who live long distances from VA medical facilities seek specialty care...
A Tuesday morning fire has caused significant damage to a U.S. Bureau of Land Management office in central Idaho and an arson task force has been called in to investigate. The Custer County Sheriff's Office says the fire reported at about 2 a.m. appears to have started on the south side of the building in a shop area...
The Legislature’s joint budget committee is opening its interim meeting in Boise today, which includes a full day of presentations on state agency and funding issues today, tours of various state agencies and locations tomorrow, and a final session Thursday morning back in the JFAC...
A detailed analysis by 11 western attorneys general finds fault in many of the arguments that Utah is making in its push to get millions of acres of federal lands transferred to the states, the AP reports. The analysis, two years in the making, was...
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — A YouTube internet personality and entrepreneur has bought the Pebble Creek Ski Area in southeastern Idaho. Shay Butler, known as Shay Carl to his 4.8 million followers on YouTube, and his wife Collette…
Authorities are searching for two inmates who escaped from the Canyon County Jail. The sheriff's office says Jeffrey Duvall and Juan Cervantes escaped from the jail's tent structure Saturday night. They were last seen on foot heading down a street in Caldwell. It was the fourth time inmates have escaped from the jail in less than a year.
Here's my full Sunday column, from the split on a stopgap spending measure among Idaho's all-GOP congressional delegation, to testimony from Idahoans at a hearing on Medicaid expansion options
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