Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador today sharply questioned Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s team assisted Russian meddling in last year’s campaign, joining other GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee in suggesting the probe is driven by...
The Idaho Department of Health & Welfare has chosen a new contractor for non-emergency transportation of Medicaid patients, to take over for Veyo in March. The new contractor will be Medical Transportation Management Inc., known as MTM; the St. Louis, Mo.-based firm operates in 28…
Federal officials gave the Idaho National Laboratory positive ratings and determined it earned 97 percent of the total available fee in a recent performance evaluation. The Post Register reports the U.S. Department of Energy determined the overall earned fee for the facility in Idaho Falls to be more than $15 million for the 2017 fiscal year...
More than 100 Idaho business leaders, ranging from high-tech CEOs to small-business owners to engineers, marketers and manufacturers, have signed a letter to Gov. Butch Otter and the Idaho Legislature calling for the repeal of a 2016 non-compete law that sharply limits the rights of…
The House Natural Resources Committee today approved legislation from Idaho 1st District GOP Rep. Raul Labrador to ease regulation on development of new geothermal energy resources. The bill, H.R. 4568, passed on a bipartisan voice vote; an earlier version of the bill passed the House…
Politifact conducted a poll of its readers on the “2017 Lie of the Year,” and while President Donald Trump calling “the Russia thing” a “made-up story” took first place, it was Idaho’s own 1st District Rep. Raul Labrador who came in second, for saying, “Nobody…
All Idaho state lawmakers will attend mandatory “respectful workplace training” on the second day of this year’s legislative session. House Speaker Scott Bedke and Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill also are asking all legislative staffers to attend, and are strongly encouraging lobbyists and members of...
The student governing councils of the University of Idaho’s fraternities and sororities have self-imposed a moratorium on all alcohol-related activities, in response to hazing and alcohol-related incidents across the nation over the past year. Sammy Crofoot, Intrafraternity Council president, said, “We decided to come together…
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