CoxAn Idaho state prison inmate is dead and his cellmate has been sent to the Idaho Maximum Security Institution while the case is investigated; an autopsy is scheduled this afternoon on Glenn Arthur Cox, 52, who was serving one to eight years in prison on...
Idaho’s state lands department says it has a new mission: Increasing active management – and logging – on federal forests in the state. Far from the simmering and often bitter debate over whether states should take over federal lands, Idaho’s moved toward its new approach through a collaboration with federal forest managers and the communities...
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter says he had too many concerns about the latest GOP effort to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law to join other Republican governors in a letter backing the bill. Earlier this week, 15 GOP governors sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, writing that they...
Idaho will collect nearly half a million dollars as part of a multi-state settlement with Mylan for allegedly overcharging Medicaid for its EpiPen products. Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced today that the state is joining the federal government and other states in the settlement,…
Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis has officially resigned from the Idaho Legislature following a recent confirmation by the U.S. Senate to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho. Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill announced Thursday he had accepted Davis' letter of resignation...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tommy Ahlquist laid out his political agenda Thursday to hundreds of supporters in Meridian while kicking off his statewide tour to visit all of Idaho's 44 counties over 44 days. Ahlquist promised to improve Idaho's educational system, work to lower health care premiums for Idahoans and reform the state's tax...