On tonight’s “Idaho Reports” on Idaho Public Television, co-host Melissa Davlin interviews BSU professors Justin Vaughn and John Freemuth about federal issues from Craters of the Moon to the federal budget and debt ceiling; and producer Seth Ogilvie speaks with Idaho Education News reporter Kevin…
Federal officials have released a cattle grazing plan for central Idaho's Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve that immediately came under fire from an environmental group. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Final Environmental Impact Statement released Friday allows cattle grazing on nearly all of the roughly 275,000 acres...
An Idaho judge has thrown out evidence against a man accused of having loads of marijuana in his car during a traffic stop. The Idaho Press-Tribune reports he evidence against 56-year-old Huu V. Tran had been thrown out this week because police "unlawfully prolonged the detention of the defendant to ask for consent to search the vehicle...
An Idaho county's taxpayers will need to cough up about $2.7 million to cover a lawsuit its officials lost against a former employee who had been fired. The Idaho Statesman reports Ada County's last-ditch effort Wednesday to not pay $664,527 of the former employee's legal fees had been denied. The former employee, Rich Wright...
People flying out of the Boise airport are increasingly bringing loaded guns with them in their purses or carry-ons, the Idaho Statesman reports, and that’s not legal. In 2016, a record 18 guns were confiscated at the Boise airport security checkpoint; this year, it’s on...
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