A child who was swimming in a pond in Crouch earlier this week was exposed to a rabid bat that swooped down and scratched him. The boy's father captured the bat, and Idaho Health & Welfare officials confirmed that it was the third rabid bat…
Idaho has suspended wolf tag sales in the wake of today's federal court decision in Montana placing wolves back on the endangered species list and suspending wolf hunting in Idaho and Montana, where hunters took 188 and 73 wolves last year, respectively. Idaho Fish &…
The private prison company that runs Idaho's Idaho Correctional Center south of Boise is trying to get a federal lawsuit over violence there dismissed, saying the severely beaten inmates bringing the case didn't exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit. The ACLU's attorney said the Corrections…
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo is co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation - along with Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore. - to halve the federal excise taxes smaller craft breweries pay, a move his office says "would benefit Idaho brewers and farmers and…
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