Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo said while there’s “significant agreement” that the nation needs to bring the federal budget into balance, the budget proposal released today by President Trump calls for “dramatic cuts to programs affecting Idahoans and its communities...
A leading Idaho charter school advocacy group is decrying President Trump’s 2018 budget proposal, even though it proposes an additional $158 million in federal funds to launch or expand charter schools. The Idaho Charter School Network said in a statement that the $9 billion in…
Idaho has joined 46 states and the District of Columbia in an $18.5 million settlement with Target Corp. over the 2013 data breach that affected millions of customers’ payment card accounts and personal and financial information; in Idaho alone, 140,000 payment card accounts and 280,000…
Idaho’s Division of Veterans Services has launched a living history project aimed at identifying and displaying on a website all the monuments and memorials in the state honoring the military and veterans, along with the stories behind them, and is asking for people to help....
Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls, says the Senate leadership won’t be offering arguments on the validity of Gov. Butch Otter’s veto of the grocery tax repeal bill, now that the Idaho Supreme Court has ruled that an issue Otter brought up – whether...
The Idaho Supreme Court has issued an order limiting the issues to be addressed in the grocery tax repeal case, and ruling that the oral arguments in the case set for June 15 will be limited only to those outlined in the original petition challenging…
A team of researchers headed by BSU biological sciences professor Julie Heath has been awarded a $1.7 million four-year grant to monitor the effects of climate change on American kestrels, and develop a modeling system that can predict how other types of birds will react...
The first medical school in Idaho plans to open in August 2018, pending its accreditation. Gov. Butch Otter spoke at a groundbreaking ceremony last week, where he told doubters: "You were wrong, we were right," The Idaho Press-Tribune reported. The Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine in Meridian will be a private, for-profit college...
With all the roiling national hubbub surrounding President Trump, there’s been speculation on the national scene that voters may turn away from the GOP, but there’s certainly no sign of that here in Idaho. According to data posted Friday by the Idaho secretary of state’s office, about 50% of Idaho’s registered voters were Republicans...
Tonight’s “Idaho Reports” on Idaho Public Television includes a rundown of the developments of the week, and also explores immigration in Idaho, through the eyes of three naturalized citizens in the Magic Valley who walk about when they started to feel American, and when the...
A state committee of scientists, educators and education officials has released its revised version of five science standards that mention climate change that Idaho lawmakers rejected this year. The five revised standards will go to the state Board of Education for approval in August, and…
Idaho Lt. Gov. Brad Little, serving as acting governor today, signed an executive order to launch a review of Idaho’s occupational licensing requirements, after a big legislative fight this year over changes to cosmetology licensing that ended up being vetoed by Gov. Butch Otter. “To…
Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador pressed a sweeping immigration enforcement bill Thursday that would add 12,500 additional armed federal immigration officers, penalize sanctuary cities, enlist state and local police in federal immigration enforcement, impose new criminal penalties and step up detentions and deportations...
Eight northern and north-central Idaho counties have been approved for federal disaster declarations, allowing federal funds to help with flood recovery efforts. Estimated total damages to public infrastructure in Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Shoshone and Valley counties are more than $9.6 million, Gov.…
Northern Idaho election workers were forced to cross out the name of a hospital trustee candidate on roughly 13,000 ballots after discovering the woman was Canadian. During Tuesday’s election, Bonner County voters received ballots with Michelle Anderson’s name blacked out. She had been one of the six candidates vying...
InvestmentNews, a national publication for financial advisers, reports today that Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, the new chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is pledging to seek “bipartisan support for legislation” to reform and reduce federal financial regulations. “We will have a strong grounding from which…
Idaho awarded its highest law enforcement honor, the Idaho Medal of Honor, posthumously Wednesday to Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore, who was shot to death by a suspect in May of 2015 while he patrolled a quiet neighborhood after midnight.
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says he has settled a lawsuit filed by Greek yogurt giant Chobani, reversing course from previous claims that he would never back down in the...
Bonneville County voters have overwhelmingly approved creating a new community college, the College of Eastern Idaho. In final unofficial results, 71.4 percent of voters favored forming a community college district, which can charge local property taxes to help support the school, like the College of…
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, a member of the Senate intelligence and foreign relations committees, has strongly defended President Donald Trump in the midst of the nationwide uproar over reports that he revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White...
Plans for a second Idaho state veterans cemetery in eastern Idaho won approval from the state Land Board on Tuesday, nearly a decade after plans for a North Idaho state veterans cemetery were dropped. That earlier plan was foiled when the feds chose a site for a new veterans cemetery in Spokane County, across the state line from Idaho’s planned...
Gov. Butch Otter says he's endorsing Republican Lt. Gov. Brad Little in Idaho's 2018 governor race. Otter said Monday that while the gubernatorial race currently has a several capable candidates, he's always supported Little. Otter appointed Little to serve as his second-in-command in 2009 his announcement is the first high-profile endorsement...
Idaho GOP Sen. Jim Risch, an attorney, issued the following statement on the Washington Post report that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week: “While details of the Washington Post article…
While vigorously defending the GOP House-passed health care bill, Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson told the Idaho Healthcare Summit that he wouldn’t have voted for it if that was what would have actually become law. Instead, Simpson said, it’s the first step in a long process he contends is needed to get to a bipartisan solution on how to fix...
A community outpouring of support for the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial after vandalism; Legislature has a new budget director; 2018 candidates already sparring; April tax revenues beat forecasts. My full column from Sunday's S-R.