Illegal buoys, boat wakes and wakeboarding on the Spokane River dominated this morning’s state Land Board meeting, as Kootenai County property owners, boat owners and sellers, officials and others clashed. The Land Board made no decision, but its staff reported that there are more than...
Idaho GOP gubernatorial hopeful Tommy Ahlquist, a physician, has released a seven-point plan to address the opioid crisis in Idaho, saying it would cut the state's annual number of opioid deaths - 200 - in half in four years...
Eastern Idaho officials say a billboard targeting the incumbent mayor of Idaho Falls by a political action committee called Businesses for Growth contains misleading information. The billboard asks why Mayor Rebecca Casper would spend $87 million for water meters rather than get a new high school. Public Works Director Chris Fredericksen says...
Lt. Gov. Brad Little is the latest gubernatorial candidate to voluntarily release information on his financial assets. Idaho is one of just two states that don’t require elected officeholders to disclose any of their personal financial information. Yet the topic has become a key talking point for Idaho’s 2018 gubernatorial race after first-time...
Orval Hansen was remembered this afternoon by several hundred friends, family members and well-wishers at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Boise, in a service that closed with the stirring singing of his favorite song, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain.” Hansen, a former three-term Idaho congressman, was an attorney…
Second-term Idaho state Rep. Don Cheatham, R-Post Falls, announced today that he’ll run for the open Senate seat in his district that’s being vacated by current Sen. Bob Nonini’s run for lieutenant governor in 2018. “I really like the House,” Cheatham said. “The Senate, I…
Three-term Idaho Congressman Orval Hansen, who died Nov. 2 at the age of 91, is lying in state in the rotunda of the state Capitol this morning; among those paying their respects so far are Lt. Gov. Brad Little; former Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice…
State Board of Education officials are searching for a new spokesperson and legislative affairs officer, just seven weeks before the start of the 2018 session, Idaho EdNews reports. Blake Youde announced Thursday that he is voluntarily leaving the State Board position to work in the…
David Leroy, whose Boise home is in the 2nd Congressional District, says he's moving to Eagle and will be living in the district where he's running for Congress before the May primary. "I intend to be voting for myself," he said...
A two-day, statewide climate summit wrapped up this afternoon after more than 500 people participated at four locations around the state, including Boise State University, Idaho State University and the University of Idaho. After hearing numerous presentations, participants broke into groups to delve into specific…
A relatively new $13.5 million hatchery intended to save Snake River sockeye salmon from extinction is instead seeing thousands of hatchery-bred fish die before they ever get to the ocean, and fisheries biologists in Idaho think they know why. The Department of Fish and Game in information released this week says water chemistry at the...
Idaho unemployment rose to 2.9 percent in October, the first increase in eight years after a long run of consistent drops; September’s jobless rate was the lowest since 1976. The Idaho Department of Labor attributed October’s increase to a surge in the number of Idahoans…
The late Idaho Congressman Orval Hansen, who died Nov. 2 at the age of 91, will lie in state in the rotunda of the state Capitol on Monday from 9 a.m. to noon; his family will be on hand to greet those who come to…
Farmers in southern Idaho are increasingly turning to the guest worker program to fill the gap left by the shrinking labor force in the state. The Capital Press reports that Idaho Department of Labor figures show applications from agricultural businesses seeking workers under the H-2A program increased by 32 percent from 2015...
Documents possibly outlining legal justifications for President Donald Trump to shrink national monuments don't have to be provided to an Idaho environmental law firm because they're protected communications, federal officials say. The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit...
Allison Crimmins, an environmental scientist with the EPA and the lead author and coordinator of a congressionally-mandated national assessment on climate change and human health, told the Idaho climate change summit today that a key finding from the latest assessment was, “Climate change is a...
As the state’s three public universities collaborate today in the statewide climate change summit, University of Idaho President Chuck Staben took the podium at Boise State in Boise. “I don’t have to tell this audience that climate change is actually quite a contentious issue in…
Idaho’s economy already is being seriously impacted by climate change, participants in a statewide, two-day “climate summit” said this morning, from increased agricultural pests and disease, to longer, smokier wildfire seasons, to spreading invasive species. And regardless of the causes, presenters said, it’s time for...
Idaho GOP Rep. Raul Labrador, who is running for governor, is touting his endorsement by the pastor of a Coeur d’Alene church where Labrador recently held a large town hall-style gathering. It comes as U.S. House Republicans push to free up pastors to openly endorse candidates from the pulpit. But that’s not the law now–and experts say Labrador...
U.S. officials have restarted an Idaho nuclear fuel testing facility amid efforts to boost the nation's nuclear power generating capacity. The U.S. Department of Energy says the facility at the Idaho National Laboratory began operating Tuesday for the first time since it went on standby in 1994...
BSU President Bob Kustra announced today that he’ll retire on June 30, after leading the state’s largest public university for 15 years. “Serving as president of Boise State University has been the privilege of a lifetime,” Kustra, 74, wrote in an announcement letter. “I will...
Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney announced Tuesday he's reevaluating the state's involvement in a longtime multistate voter registration database. Denney says that his office has received hundreds of emails from citizens raising concerns about Idaho's involvement in the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program...
A federal judge should dismiss a sex discrimination lawsuit and not allow as evidence any recordings made by a former employee intended to prove her claims, an Idaho state agency says. The 8-page document filed Monday in U.S. District Court by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game also asks that it be awarded attorney fees. The lawsuit filed...
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch changed his position on Roy Moore today, telling reporters, “I believe Roy Moore should step down.” Just yesterday, Risch was sticking by his statement from last week that “if these allegations are true, Roy Moore must step aside.” Idaho Sen. Mike…
Idaho state Rep. Christy Perry, R-Nampa, announced today that she’ll run for Congress in the 1st Congressional District race that already has drawn a slew of candidates; it’s an open seat, as current Rep. Raul Labrador is leaving it to run for governor. Republicans who…
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