The Idaho Attorney General’s office is urging a federal judge to deny a request to clarify how the state will implement a new law limiting changes to people’s birth certificates.
The Idaho Falls Fire Department has purchased new decontamination systems to use at each of the city's six fire stations.
Reports that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan are "grossly inaccurate," according to the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
An Ada County delegate who brought several resolutions to last week’s Republican state convention supporting major changes to law enforcement says he hoped they could at least start a conversation.
BOISE — Idaho residents may vote in person during elections in August and November despite the continuing spread of the coronavirus, officials said.
Most of the laws passed during the last Idaho legislative session will take effect Wednesday.
Despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation that people wear masks in public as far back as early April to help slow the spread of the new coronavirus, the Idaho Department of Correction didn’t require its staff to wear them until Wednesday — the same day the firs…
Mandates electronics must be in hands-free mode
State vows to appeal to block school-funding measure from ballot
The Idaho GOP expanded its platform Saturday, endorsing penalties against employers who hire undocumented workers and codifying support for what it calls an exceptional, inherited American national identity.
The Idaho GOP expanded its platform Saturday, endorsing penalties against employers who hire undocumented workers and codifying support for what it calls an exceptional, inherited American national identity.
NAMPA — Some delegates at the Republican state convention have taken a stand against their party’s governor and his coronavirus response, condemning his contact tracing program and calling on the Idaho Legislature to “protect our lives, liberty and property from the recent unchecked, unbalan…
NAMPA — Republican convention delegates on the Platform Committee endorsed two new additions to the party platform preamble Thursday.
NAMPA — If Democrats win the Senate and the presidency, they could make the current Republican Senate the last by making Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., states, U.S. Sen. Jim Risch warned Friday.
Fuller, Luna to face off for chairman
Idaho’s U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, both Republican, joined a bipartisan coalition of 48 senators in introducing legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
BOISE — Idaho Gov. Brad Little and Secretary of State Lawerence Denney say they plan to appeal Tuesday’s U.S. District Court decision granting Reclaim Idaho’s request for a second chance to qualify its school-funding initiative for the November ballot, after the statewide stay-home order cut…
The Idaho Department of Correction on Wednesday announced the first case of COVID-19 in an inmate in its custody.
BOISE — Idaho Gov. Brad Little said Wednesday that he’s been talking with state legislators who want him to call a special session of the Legislature, but the Idaho Constitution requires such sessions to be called on a specific subject — and none of them have offered him one.
15 GOP reps decry governor’s COVID-19 response
A proposal to increase education funding in Idaho by raising taxes on the rich and corporations may still end up on the November ballot.
BOISE — Under the Idaho Constitution, only the governor can call a special session of the Legislature — but the Idaho Freedom Foundation and an unregistered political action committee are calling one for Tuesday morning aimed at overturning the governor’s executive orders on the coronavirus …
The state of California is restricting state-funded travel to Idaho, citing two laws passed this year that critics say discriminate against transgender people.
BOISE — Gov. Brad Little signed an executive order Monday making all of the waivers of telehealth regulations that he’s issued during the coronavirus pandemic permanent.
BOISE — Three hundred million in grants for small businesses impacted by the pandemic. Two hundred million for property tax relief. One hundred million for return-to-work bonuses. Aid to impacted local governments and state agencies. Fifty million to expand broadband in Idaho. Sixteen millio…
BOISE — With the sharp increase in coronavirus infections Idaho’s seen in the past two weeks, Gov. Brad Little says “we’re looking at all the options,” including a possible partial rollback of the state’s staged reopening plan.
Eastern Idaho’s congressman and the state’s two senators said Friday they oppose defunding police departments, as some activists have called for in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and others at the hands of police, but they do support some federal-level efforts to address police violence.
Risch: I have backed INL, will continue to with my seniority
The city of Idaho Falls is reopening the recreational facilities that have been close due to the coronavirus pandemic, albeit with some restrictions.
Statement comes on heels of call to pull games from Idaho
The U.S. Senate is moving toward passage of a major conservation bill.
A large coalition of student and professional athletes and advocacy groups are calling on the National Collegiate Athletic Association to boycott Idaho over a law banning transgender girls and women from female high school and college sports teams.
BOISE — Since May 31, Idaho has seen a fairly significant increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases reported by the state Department of Health & Welfare each day, along with a substantial uptick in infections of health care workers.
Legislative leaders have named the members of a committee that will study property taxes this year and, it is hoped, come up with some proposals for tax reductions lawmakers can implement during the 2021 session.
Mayor Rebecca Casper has received the American Public Power Association's Spence Vanderlinden Public Official Award.
Local governments in Idaho can use some federal coronavirus relief funds to help pay police officers, firefighters and medical personnel, if they agree, in turn, to keep property taxes down.
The Idaho Legislature will have a slightly more conservative cast next year than it did in 2020.
Unofficial final primary results NationalU.S. Senate, Democratic nominee
BOISE — Four legislative incumbents were defeated in Idaho’s primary election on Tuesday night, but the initial reports posted on election night by the Idaho Secretary of State’s office only showed three.
A new law notwithstanding, Idaho cannot summarily deny transgender people’s applications to change their sex on their birth certificates to match their gender identities, a federal judge said Monday.
Although final numbers weren't available as of press time, it appears U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson has easily beaten challenger Kevin Rhoades and will once again be the Republican Party's nominee for the Second Congressional District seat.
Christensen likely District 32 winner
Rep. Julianne Young has held onto her District 31 House seat, while David Cannon will succeed retiring Rep. Neil Anderson.
Jon Walker will be the next Second District Bonneville County commissioner.
Samuel Hulse will be the next Bonneville County sheriff.
Both of the Republican incumbents in Legislative District 8 who faced primary challengers will return to Boise.
Idaho students who don’t currently have internet access may get some help soon thanks in part to Idaho National Laboratory and Qatar.
If you’ve driven past the electronic billboard on Northgate Mile near North Holmes Avenue lately, you may have noticed an ad showing a young girl holding a wedding bouquet with the words “Don’t Marry Me Off” and a link to girlawake.com/end-child-marriage.
People who want their votes to count in this year’s primary need to make sure their ballots are in the hands of their county election offices by 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Idaho U.S. senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo have joined seven of their Republican colleagues in urging President Trump not to restrict temporary work visas as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson is backing a bill to give some relief to minor league baseball teams, including the imperiled Idaho Falls Chukars.
Awaits figures showing impact of Stage 2
The group that helped to craft a new Idaho law barring transgender girls and women from playing on female high school and college sports teams wants to help defend the law against a court challenge.
The Idaho Falls City Council voted unanimously Thursday to extend its suspension of utility disconnects in response to the high unemployment and economic dislocation that have accompanied the coronavirus pandemic.
BOISE — U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill has granted a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction giving Idaho voters more time — until Tuesday — to request absentee ballots for the May primary election.
