The Idaho Falls Community Development Services Department is holding a meeting on Tuesday to discuss how to use a Brownfield Assessment Grant.
Supporters and critics of Boise State University’s diversity programs continued to debate the issue this week.
A bill to bring in national laboratories to study ways to protect the electrical grid from cyberattacks passed the U.S. House on Wednesday.
A U.S. Senate panel held a hearing on three water-related bills Thursday, including one that could affect the East Snake Plain Aquifer by making it easier to recharge aquifers using water on federal land.
The Bureau of Land Management’s upcoming reorganization is expected to lead to 18 more BLM jobs in Idaho.
Local cities have reached deals to use more than 150 megawatts of power from a small nuclear reactor project planned for eastern Idaho.
A major Idaho health care company announced Wednesday it will provide the bulk of the funding to renovate a historic former hotel and apartment building in downtown Idaho Falls.
Idaho has submitted its waiver request to let some people who would be covered by Medicaid expansion stay on private insurance.
A Boise lawyer filed another lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of school fees in Idaho.
The Alturas Institute’s next “constitutional conversations” will be about the legal controversies surrounding issues such as same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws.
So far 52 people have gotten tickets for violating the new ordinances in two local cities banning using a handheld cellphone while driving.
Last year, Idaho Falls restriped the section of South Boulevard between 17th Street and Sunnyside Road, adding bike lanes and a center turning lane and getting rid of on-street parking in the process.
Idaho’s Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Boise State University’s new president Friday praising the school’s diversity programs and faulting the Legislature’s Republican majority and the levels of funding they approved for recent tuition increases.
Twenty-eight House Republicans sent a letter to Boise State University’s new president Tuesday criticizing the university’s diversity-related programs and asking her to take the school down a different path.
A Bureau of Land Management proposal to install thousands of miles of fuel breaks in the Great Basin has met opposition from environmental advocates but may receive support from fire protection groups.
Idaho Falls is looking to increase the amount of power the city would get from some small nuclear reactors that are being planned at the U.S. Department of Energy desert site west of Idaho Falls.
The Idaho Falls City Council voted Thursday to adjust its police pay incentives.
The city of Idaho Falls is starting the public part of the process of creating next year’s budget.
A bill to bring in the U.S.’s national laboratories to study ways to protect the electrical grid from cyberattacks passed the Senate last week.
BOISE — By two votes, Raul Labrador has been elected chairman of the Idaho Republican Party.
The Idaho Falls City Council voted Thursday to approve funding for a new trail along the Idaho Canal.
The U.S. Senate passed a $750 billion defense funding bill Thursday that includes several Idaho-specific items.
Idaho’s public wastewater treatment plants are failing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards, according to a recent report from the Idaho Conservation League, an environmental advocacy group.
A former state senator from Madison County and one of Idaho’s preeminent experts on water law died Wednesday.
The 81 percent of Idaho’s administrative rules that are up for reauthorization were published online Wednesday.
A former state senator from Madison County and one of Idaho’s preeminent experts on water law died Wednesday.
The Idaho Falls City Council voted Thursday to approve annexing 119 acres east and south of the Sage Lakes Golf Course.
Idaho’s governor has created an advisory group to study opioid abuse and help combat it.
A local university and potato plant have received a state energy efficiency award.
Idaho’s Republican lawmakers are backing a bill to get the state out from under the thumb of the court conservatives love to hate.
Bonneville County’s preliminary assessed property values for the 2019 fiscal year are up 14.5 percent from the current values.
Two of U.S. Sen. Jim Risch’s five interns this summer are from Idaho Falls.
Kathy Simpson has been reappointed to the Idaho Judicial Council.
A North Korean refugee will be the keynote speak at Ammon Mayor Sean Coletti’s community service awards reception this year.
U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, are teaming up on a bill meant to get younger people working at national laboratories to help the laboratories replace their aging workforces.
A longtime former Battelle Energy Alliance employee is suing the government contractor and a nuclear reactor design company owned by Bill Gates, saying he was forced out of his job when he complained Gates’ company TerraPower was breaking its agreement with the U.S. government.
POCATELLO — State Controller Brandon Woolf believes an upgrade to his website that went live Tuesday effectively creates 1.7 million auditors for the state.
The Idaho Department of Insurance is accepting public comment on one of the proposed changes to Medicaid expansion lawmakers approved this year.
The city of Idaho Falls plans to hold a public meeting Wednesday to talk to residents about the striping of part of South Boulevard.
Idaho’s new education task force will hold its first meeting Monday.
A local lawmaker and an Arizona libertarian activist will be among the headliners at a right-wing rally in Boise at the end of this month.
BOISE — U.S. senators from Idaho and Oregon on Thursday touted legislation they introduced to create an endowment to replace revenue lost by rural counties due to declines in timber cutting on federal lands.
BOISE — Two longtime members of the Idaho state Board of Education are retiring at the end of this month, and Gov. Brad Little is seeking applicants to replace them.
Need to renew your license or change your address this summer? You can now skip the line at the DMV.
States won’t be able to ban the transport of hemp through their states once the U.S. Department of Agriculture publishes hemp production regulations later this year, according to an advisory opinion from a lawyer for the department.
Two Idaho lawmakers are sponsoring a bill that would make it easier to recharge aquifers using water on federal land.
Gov. Brad Little is accepting applications for two soon-to-be-open spots on the Idaho Fish and Game Commission, including the one for the Idaho Falls area.
Gov. Brad Little has appointed Idaho Falls Sen. Dave Lent to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
The Idaho Falls City Council signed off Thursday night on a controversial annexation of about 66 acres on the west side of town.
Idaho Falls has made a deal with a Shelley jerky plant to process the plant’s waste.
The 12th Street Bridge will be closed next winter so the city and the Idaho Transportation Department can put in a new bridge.
One of the pivotal points in the chain of events that led the Targhee Regional Public Transportation Authority to dissolve was a federal audit that found serious problems with the bus service’s financial management, some of which led to thousands of dollars in federal overpayments.
A meeting Tuesday night on the future of public transportation in the Idaho Falls area brought out several possibilities but no answers yet as to what, if anything, will replace the Targhee Regional Public Transportation Authority.
The chairwoman of the Idaho Falls Auditorium District board of directors easily beat back a challenge Tuesday night.
A U.S. House committee has voted to advance a Department of Energy budget that would keep funding for Idaho National Laboratory and nuclear research mostly flat.