The Idaho Transportation Board, meeting in Coeur d'Alene today, voted to move up nine major road construction projects around the state, saying cost savings and interest savings are allowing them to push them up. Three of the projects, all in the Treasure Valley, also will…
Students taking online classes from K12 Inc. in four states, including Idaho, are lagging in test scores and graduation rates compared to students in traditional schools, according to a new study by the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. The study…
Dr. Ted Epperly, a Boise family physician, director of the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho and former chairman of the American Academy of Family Physicians, recently published a book entitled, "Fractured: America's Broken Health Care System And What We Must Do To Heal It." He…
Brigadier General William Shawver is leaving his position as director of the Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security to take a private-sector position, and Col. Brad Richy has been named the new director. Richy, 54, currently serves as the commander of the 124th Fighter Wing of…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) ― Authorities are building a case against a Boise man accused of trying to steal $400 worth of Lego sets. KTVB reports (http://bit.ly/SFeiBu ) 31-year-old Jeremy Mark Liedtke was arrested Monday for attempting to…
An invasive insect common in south-central Europe has been turning up in southwestern Idaho, the first time the elm seed bug has been detected in the United States, the AP reports. The quarter-inch pests don't pose any public health or crop risk, officials say, but…
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