Former Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, former Secretary of the Interior under President George W. Bush, told a congressional committee today he never anticipated an oil spill as large as the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but no one else did either, the AP…
Idaho is the "point of the spear" as conservatives work to reshape the GOP agenda across the nation, writes AP reporter John Miller, as he examines the outcome of this year's Republican state convention in Idaho Falls last month. Click below to read his full…
Idaho's state endowment fund made 16 percent on its investments in the just-completed 2010 fiscal year, though it dropped 2.2 percent in June. "All of the managers are performing as we would expect them to," Larry Johnson, manager of investments, told the state Land Board…
As of the close of the state's fiscal year on July 1, emergency fire suppression costs incurred by the state Department of Lands for the year were $1.95 million. That's similar to last year's costs, and is 33 percent of the 20-year average. The number…
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