Here’s what Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, asked today about the prospect of chairing Foreign Relations, had to say: “I have 15 months left as the chair of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, and I intend to be as robust and focused on that as…
According to Mercer — the state's newest actuarial consultant — Idaho taxpayers could save roughly $13 million during the first year of implementing a self-insurance model. Under a such a plan, the state would pay for health insurance for about 45,600 state workers and family members directly rather than purchasing insurance through...
As Idaho’s teacher shortage continues, school districts and charter schools are being forced to improvise, Idaho EdNews reports. They are hiring more and more professionals with no teaching experience or college graduates who didn’t major in education. They are moving some veteran teachers into new…
resident Donald Trump’s announcement of planned tax reforms Wednesday drew praise from Republicans in the Washington and Idaho delegations, who said it would provide financial relief to working Americans and boost economic growth. Washington’s senior Democrat, meanwhile, criticized the plan as a way to help the rich at the expense of the middle...
The number of imperiled Snake River sockeye salmon that made it back to central Idaho this year is the second worst in the last decade, officials said, but enough hatchery-raised fish exist to keep a state and federal recovery program going. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game said 159 of the federally protected fish arrived at the Sawtooth...
When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called out Boise State University by name in a Tuesday speech as one of many American universities he contended was wrongly restricting free speech in an attempt to accommodate “political correctness” and be a “shelter for fragile egos,” BSU…
A man who spent 20 years in an Idaho prison, including 14 years on death row, for murder before being exonerated is facing new charges. KTVB-TV reports Donald Manuel Paradis was arrested Tuesday for aggravated assault. The victim told police he was in an argument...
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