Idaho News Headlines

The latest auction of state-owned lakefront lots yielded $7,895,500. As typically happens, the cottage owners at the June 23 auction in Boise were the only bidders on 12 of the 14 Payette Lake lots.  Their bids were the same as the appraised values of...

Ronald D. Harris purchased 0.71 acre at Silverstone Business Park, 1739 S. Jade Way, in Meridian. DJ Thompson of Cushman & Wakefield Pacific represented the buyer and Steve Winger and Devin Ogden of Colliers International represented the seller. OODA...

The United States is on track to see its most costly year of bank failures since 2012, but Idaho bankers aren’t worried. Two U.S. banks with at least $1 billion in assets have failed this year for the first time since 2012. In total, six banks totaling...

One of the most important advancements for the modern oil and gas sector has become a household curse word. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is crucial to producing petroleum and natural gas and transformed the U.S. industry in the last decade....

Construction will start June 26 on the long anticipated 81-unit 5th and Idaho Apartments in Old Boise. The project has secured a $14 million construction loan from CBRE Capital Markets, the Seattle office of the real estate finance firm announced....

An unnamed bidder placed a winning bid of $1,893,750 June 21 on 7.93 acres of undeveloped land on Federal Way in front of the Overland Post Office. The winning bidder outlasted CBH Homes President and owner Corey Barton, who threw in the towel at $1.85...

Upending long-held beliefs, a national trades group released a report in June finding that construction accidents are more common at the noon hour than any other time of the day. That was just one piece of conventional wisdom that was turned on its head...

Dana Zuckerman has done a lot of explaining since she decided to put four very small houses on one third-acre lot in the far reaches of Boise’s North End. The houses, three with one bedroom and one with two bedrooms, measure between 580 and 696 square...

Two educators thought they would each build their own charter school in Boise, anchored with their $120,000 Idaho New School Fellowships from Bluum, a Boise-based new school incubator network. After Brad Petersen and Amanda Cox spent time together in the...

A 17,000-square-foot rock-wood-and-window home in McCall has been converted into a long-sought clubhouse for the Whitetail Club private community adjoining Shore Lodge. The lakeside clubhouse offers a restaurant with outdoor patio, an indoor/outdoor bar,...

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Idaho is about to fall further behind its neighbors on its minimum wage, the Idaho Business Review reports today, as four of Idaho’s six neighboring states raise their minimum wage in each of the next three years. Idaho’s minimum wage remains at $7.25 an...

Kari Overall, a history teacher at South Junior High in Boise, has been elected the next president of the Idaho Education Association; she succeeds Penni Cyr, who is retiring after six years in the post. Overall’s three-year term will begin Aug. 1. “The...

Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho is putting up 14 Payette Lake lots for auction as part of an ongoing effort to remove the state from leasing land to cabin owners. Officials with the Idaho Department of Lands say...

Former Idaho Supreme Court Justice Jim Jones will address a City Club of Boise forum on June 27 on refugees and immigrants, entitled, “A Perspective on the World’s Huddled Masses.” The former justice and former two-term Idaho Attorney General traces his...

Stan Olson, the former Boise School District superintendent who unsuccessfully challenged then-state schools Superintendent Tom Luna in 2010, has been named the new interim superintendent of the Coeur d’Alene School District. Olson will head the Coeur...

By Keith Ridler, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho is starting its first ever audit of natural gas and oil wells on state lands to make sure the state is getting its fair cut of royalty payments, state officials say. Idaho Department of Lands...

Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden has named Darrell Early division chief of his office’s Natural Resources Division, replacing longtime Division Chief Clive Strong, who retired last week. Early has been with the Attorney General’s office since 1999,...

When the governor is out of state, the lieutenant governor fills in as acting governor. And when both the governor and lieutenant governor are out of state, that duty falls to the president pro-tem of the state Senate. And if the pro-tem also is out of...

By Keith Ridler, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A pet squirrel named Joey who gained fame as a crime-fighter might be more of the lover type. Joey, who police credited with scaring off a burglar trying to break into his home’s gun safe, made his...

Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The former director of President Donald Trump's election campaign in Idaho says he is seriously considering running for the state's open U.S. House seat in 2018. Layne Bangerter told The...

Stephen Kenyon, who has been the clerk of the Idaho Supreme Court and Court of Appeals since 2005, started today as the new Clerk of the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for Idaho. Kenyon replaces Libby Smith, who left the post in April to become...

When the Legislative Council, the governing group of Idaho’s legislature outside of legislative sessions, met on Friday, it agreed to the formation of a 10-member interim working group to study ethics and campaign finance laws in Idaho and recommend...

Two Idaho state representatives, one from each party, have sent out an op-ed piece opposing the President Trump’s proposed rollback of improved trade relations with Cuba, saying Idaho stands to gain if trade is opened up with the island nation. “What you...

The Senate Judiciary Committee today voted unanimously to approve the confirmation of Idaho Judge David Nye to be the state’s next U.S. District judge; that sends the nomination to the full Senate for consideration. Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, who along with...

Here's my full story from spokesman.com: By Betsy Z. Russell BOISE – Four Idaho Supreme Court justices had sharp questions for both sides, as they heard arguments Thursday in a court challenge to Gov. Butch Otter’s veto of legislation repealing the...

Justice Daniel Eismann won’t be participating in today’s arguments in the grocery tax case, as he’s out sick. Eismann will watch the arguments via livestream and still will take part in the decision, but he won’t be asking questions today. That promises...

Lawmakers and others are gathering at the Idaho Supreme Court for today’s arguments in the grocery tax case. The arguments start at 11:10 a.m.; I’ll have a full report after the arguments conclude. Here’s my story on what’s at stake and the...

Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo’s bipartisan legislation to step up sanctions against Russia has passed the Senate on an overwhelming 97-2 vote. “This legislation signals to the world the United States’ unflagging commitment to the sanctity of territorial...

Former state Sen. Russ Fulcher, R-Meridian, has dropped out of the race for governor and instead will run for the 1st District congressional seat being vacated by Raul Labrador – who’s also running for governor. And the move has won Fulcher Labrador’s...