Former Vice President Dick Cheney has endorsed Steve Yates in Idaho's open lieutenant governor's race. Cheney said Tuesday in a statement distributed by the campaign that he appreciated Yates's time working as a deputy on his national security staff and praised Yates' dedication to the Republican Party. Yates, an Idaho Falls businessman...
A newly discovered plant species will be named after the late Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus after a fundraising effort raised $10,000 for researchers' work, Boise State Public Radio reports. After scientists at BSU and the College of Idaho who discovered the plant offered the naming…
A children’s fictional biography of a self-taught Idaho artist whose work appears in museums around the world went on sale Tuesday after a federal judge ruled the author likely didn't violate copyright laws. U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill on Monday ruled that Allen Say's "Silent Days, Silent Dreams" is not likely to infringe...
In Veyo’s Sept. 6 termination letter to the state of Idaho, exercising an early out on its three-year, $70 million contract for non-emergency Medicaid transportation services, Veyo President Josh Komenda complains that the state placed “significant, non-contractual restrictions on Veyo’s model, at great expense to...
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