At least 21 Idaho school districts are unilaterally imposing contract terms on teachers this week, after failing to reach agreement with local teachers unions - an option for districts under the state's controversial "Students Come First" school reform law. In the Lakeland School District in…
Opponents of megaload transports through Idaho's scenic Highway 12 river corridor have issued the following statement on Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil's withdrawal of its permit application to the state of Montana for the loads: "The Rural People of Highway 12-Fighting Goliath feel gratified that the industrialization of…
Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil has withdrawn its application to the state of Montana to haul more than 200 megaloads of oil sands equipment over Lolo Pass and through northwestern Montana into Canada. The company said it's already brought in all the loads it needs for the first…
The wolf pup that tourists near Ketchum mistook for an abandoned puppy and brought to a local vet left Boise this morning and is on its way to a new home: Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Va., which has nine wolves, including two other pups that…
Gov. Butch Otter has named two new Idaho Fish & Game commissioners: Joan Hurlock, a fitness center owner from Buhl who also is a former forensic chemist for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Explosives and Arson Unit and a former member of the…
Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson has successfully added an amendment to the 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill in the House to include fresh potatoes in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. WIC provides supplemental…
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