Idaho News Headlines

The Car Park, a Boise company that manages parking at dozens of Boise locations, at the Friedman Airport in Blaine County, and in other states, has purchased the North Carolina parking company McLaurin Parking. McLaurin is a 70-year-old family-owned...

As law firms look for ways to offer legal services to clients more efficiently and with more predictable fee structures, the use of online legal research platforms remains essential – and it’s not cheap. “It is a significant cost consideration for a firm...

Metro Community Services will consolidate all its services at a new $1.3 million, 13,392-square-foot facility set to open in summer at the new Sky Ranch Business Park in Caldwell. Metro is a Caldwell nonprofit human services agency that provides...

Where westbound Chinden Boulevard rises to reach Hewlett-Packard, Joplin Road drops to an assortment of fields, storage areas, the region’s wastewater treatment plant, a gravel pit and the Boise River. As developer James B. Roberts walked some Joplin...

Idaho has been seeing success with using the “Good Neighbor Authority” it was granted under the 2014 federal Farm Bill to partner with the U.S. Forest Service and increase active management and timber harvests on national forests in the state – and it’s...

The “Close the Gap Idaho” coalition is decrying the new GOP health care bill that’s now pending in the U.S. Senate, saying it contains catastrophic cuts for Idahoans with disabilities who rely on the state’s current Medicaid program, along with...

Although the fire season seemed downright awful, with heavy smoke choking much of the state, Idaho is coming out of it without any pressing bills. That’s because the state Legislature pre-funded its wildland firefighting costs two years ago with a $60...

Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Transportation Department is considering the construction of overpasses that would provide wildlife a safe crossing over a stretch of U.S. Highway 20 near the state's...

A dozen Idaho school districts wrestling with growth have approved emergency property tax levies adding up to $10.1 million statewide, Idaho Education News reports. Emergency levies run for just one year, to help schools handle unexpected additional...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A number of rural Idaho school districts are struggling to lure licensed teachers into classrooms causing the districts to hire more unlicensed educators. The Twin Falls School District recently hired 20 unlicensed teachers this...

Homebuilders slowed their pace of construction by 0.8 percent in August, the second straight monthly decline. A steep drop in multifamily construction more than offset a slight gain in single-family-home building. The overall drop occurred even though...

Under the weight of student loan debt, people are making career decisions that limit their mobility in the Idaho workforce. Idaho ranked 11th overall, and 3rd in the proportion of students with debt, in the WalletHub 2017 student on student debt, wrote...

The Museum of Idaho has received a $110,000 grant from the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc. that will enable the facility to complete an expansion that will nearly double its size. The gift completed the museum’s capital campaign goal for a...

Here's my full story from spokesman.com: By Betsy Z. Russell A controversial north-central Idaho legislator, who’s made her mark as an extreme stickler for the rules, may not have been qualified to run for the office because she still was claiming a...

The Big Sky Conference will play its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments in downtown Boise in 2019, 2020 and 2021. The tournaments will be staged simultaneously at the CenturyLink Area, starting the week of March 11-16, 2019. The tournament will...

A federal court has held Atlanta Gold in contempt of court for continuing to pollute a tributary of the Boise River at its mining site near Atlanta. While discharges from the site have improved, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ron Bush found that they still don’t...

By Keith Ridler, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Power wants to retire two coal-fired power plants it says won't be able to produce electricity at competitive prices as part of a 20-year plan to provide energy for Idaho and Oregon that has...

Here's my full column from Sunday's Spokesman-Review: By Betsy Z. Russell In more than 150 years, just three women have served on the Idaho Supreme Court, and the three have some interesting insights into why that is, and what could change it. Current...

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter told Jerome County officials that they should not be swayed by possible legal challenges as they consider leasing space in the county's new jail to U.S. Immigration...

Gov. Butch Otter’s higher education task force today adopted 12 recommendations in a series of 12 unanimous votes, Idaho EdNews reports. Among them: Rewriting and resetting the “60 percent goal,” extending it out for another five years in an effort to be...

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho has hired St. Luke's Health System to help people choose a health plan on the online insurance exchange, even though the health care giant stands to financially benefit when customers...

By Keith Ridler, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Tourists heading to central Idaho will be in the dark if local officials get their way. The first International Dark Sky Reserve in the United States would fill a chunk of the state's sparsely...

Idaho is extending deadlines for state taxpayers who owe payments, but are affected by Hurricane Irma.  For those affected, payments that are due from Sept. 4 to Jan. 31 can be sent in by Jan. 31. The relief is for all Idaho tax types, including income...

The American Association of University Women has released its annual 50-state rankings for the gender pay gap, and Idaho ranks 42nd among the states, with median annual earnings in 2016 at $45,305 for men and $34,403 for women. That’s an earnings ratio...

Idaho’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in 10 years in August, dropping to 2.9 percent. That’s a tenth of a percentage point lower than July, and matches the state’s record low from June of 2007. It also was the sixth...

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Bart Davis as Idaho’s next U.S. attorney, in a unanimous-consent decision that came at the close of business in the Senate today. “He has been approved,” said Lindsay Nothern, spokesman for Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo. Crapo and...

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials said Thursday they have found a creative solution to provide health care to poor residents who do not have medical coverage while simultaneously limiting the state's ongoing...

Both of Idaho’s U.S. House members are announcing legislative victories today, with 1st District Rep. Raul Labrador lauding a House vote today that passed his bill to make it easier to deport members of alien criminal gangs; and 2nd District Rep. Mike...

The page, posing as an activist group, was one of hundreds of fake accounts Russia used in an information campaign during the election, a revelation that has put Facebook on the defensive.
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