ID Government

Bonner County has agreed to pay a resident $200,000 to settle claims of unlawful battery, arrest and imprisonment after he was detained during a county commissioners meeting earlier this year.

The deadline for Idaho homeowners to pay their property taxes is Dec. 20.

The Idaho State Board of Canvassers voted unanimously Tuesday at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise to certify Idaho’s 2024 general election results.

After dismissing Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s legal effort to block a failed election reform ballot initiative, an Idaho judge is weighing whether Labrador’s office should pay attorney fees for the other side’s legal case.

Most incumbents in Kootenai County held onto their seats in Tuesday’s election.

Democrat Tom Hearn is seeking the Idaho Senate seat held by incumbent Republican Phil Hart, who has faced a complaint this year that asserts he doesn’t live at the Kellogg home where he is registered to vote.

The election for the Kootenai-Shoshone Soil and Water Conservation District is getting muddy.

WASHINGTON – For someone who expects to lose her second consecutive run for Congress, Kaylee Peterson is unusually optimistic.

The Timberlake Fire Protection District is asking voters to approve a levy increase for the first time in its history so it can hire enough firefighters to have more than one response crew available at a time.

Attorneys for Idaho death row prisoner Thomas Creech, who is under a death warrant and awaits his scheduled execution next month, asked Tuesday for a new hearing so the state’s parole board can reconsider dropping his sentence to life in prison. His application for the hearing is supported by the family of one of Creech’s purported victims, a case that earlier this year helped prosecutors ...

If passed, the citizen-led ballot measure would establish a “top-four” primary system where all the candidates appear on a single primary ballot, regardless of party affiliation. The four candidates who earn the most votes in the primary would then advance to the general election ballot. Proposition 1 would also create a ranked-choice voting system in the general election, where voters have the option to rank candidates on the ballot in order of preference. 

A Kootenai County magistrate judge with numerous reprimands who appeared in court dressed as Darth Vader on Halloween is up for re-election in November. A campaign led by a former litigant of a divorce and custody case he oversaw in 2012 hopes to remove him.