Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on this weekend's "Spirit of Boise Balloon Classic," which is filling the skies over Idaho's capital city each morning with colorful hot-air balloons. The allure of hot-air ballooning: “It's calm and exhilarating and serene, all at…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge says Boise County can't declare bankruptcy to stave off paying a more than $5 million legal judgment. Boise County was sued by developer Oaas-Laney for allegedly violating the federal Fair…
GOP redistricting commissioners have presented their legislative district plan that splits only five counties; it's similar to the latest Democratic proposal for the northernmost eight counties, which split Bonner County vertically rather than horizontally, keeping Clark Fork whole; but makes changes in southern Idaho. Among…
Idaho's redistricting commission will, in fact, work through the Labor Day weekend holiday. The commission just agreed to come back tomorrow morning at 10, at which time it will hear the Republican reaction to five Democratic redistricting plans for legislative districts presented today; and Democratic…
Well, the redistricting commission reconvened, and GOP Co-Chair Evan Frasure, referring to himself and his fellow GOP commissioners, announced, "We've made some serious progress during the lunch hour - we're within probably an hour of being able to produce something that might be useful for…
Sentencing today in the murder of 8-year-old Robert Manwill resulted in a 25-year sentence for the late child's mother, Melissa Jenkins, and two consecutive sentences of life without parole for her boyfriend, Daniel Ehrlick, who was convicted of torturing the young boy to death, then…
Click here to watch an audio slide show of the Spirit of Boise Balloon Classic, which is underway in Boise through Sunday; I rode along with Coeur d'Alene hot-air balloon pilot Val Favicchio yesterday, and this tells the tale. I'll also have a full story…
An off-duty Boise Police officer who was riding his bicycle in Caldwell yesterday afternoon, training for an upcoming bike race, was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver; police are searching for the driver, identified as a Caucasian female with long dark hair, driving a maroon…
GOP Commissioner Lorna Finman has now moved to introduce another proposed legislative district plan, this one drawn by GOP Commissioner Evan Frasure. Frasure said the new GOP map takes a bit of a different approach. "This one is a zero deviation - all 35 districts…
Democratic Redistricting Commissioner George Moses submitted a total of five new legislative plans this morning, including one that makes a small modification to one of the others. "They aren't the ones that we would draw in what we would consider to be a perfect world,"…
Democratic redistricting commissioners are presenting four new options on legislative district plans this morning. One of them, L-62, isn't their first choice, Commissioner George Moses said, as it would split 10 counties. But it's offered as a "North Idaho fix." This plan would divide Bonner…
Idaho's bipartisan citizen redistricting commission is back at work this morning, with its deadline looming on Tuesday at 5 p.m. First up is review of three new publicly submitted legislative district plans. One, from former state Rep. Branden Durst, D-Boise, is billed as a way…
There are 30 hot-air ballons drifting in the skies above Boise today, as the Spirit of Boise Balloon Classic continues; this shot just shows a fraction of them. The mass balloon launches continue each morning through Sunday. Tonight, the balloons will inflate on the ground…
The Associated Press reports that three wolves have been taken since Idaho's second-ever wolf hunting season opened on Tuesday. Hunters have 72 hours to report a wolf kill to the agency's regional offices. So far, Fish & Game reports that one hunter bagged a black…
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