Gov. Butch Otter today signed into law all seven bills that make up the public school budget, and also signed into law the budgets that state lawmakers passed for Medicaid, parks, community colleges, career-technical education, the Department of Agriculture, and the Wolf Control Depredation Board,…
The Idaho State Tax Commission is refusing to disclose details about an online sales tax deal with Amazon, which went into effect over the weekend, the AP reports. The agreement allows the giant e-commerce company to start collecting sales tax for the state on internet purchases shipped to Idaho...
Environmental and animal-welfare groups have filed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. government is violating the Endangered Species Act by allowing the use of two predator-killing poisons. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Montana...
The #ToleranceMeans Dialogues, a lecture series designed by professors at the University of Illinois and Yale University to directly engage millenials, arrive in Idaho today, with a session at the state Capitol at 5 p.m. entitled, “Religion and Child Welfare: Do they have to be…
A Boise man who was once a plaintiff in a high-profile anti-panhandling lawsuit has registered as a Republican candidate for Idaho governor. Troy Minton joins an increasingly crowded race. With Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter saying he will not seek a fourth term in 2018, the race already has three competitive GOP candidates...
Idaho House Minority Leader Mat Erpelding, responding to Gov. Butch Otter’s press conference yesterday on this year’s Idaho legislative session, is urging Otter to sign the grocery tax repeal bill into law. “This is a tax cut that will help tens of thousands of working…
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