Idaho Republican Party officials say their platform got a good "going-over" at their state party convention in Twin Falls last weekend, with days of subcommittee and committee hearings before the new version was presented to the full convention and approved. "I think everybody got a…
Idaho's super-dominant Republican Party was widely expected to swing back toward the middle this year, after tea party activists peppered the party platform two years ago with planks urging abolishment of the Federal Reserve, eliminating direct election of U.S. senators and pushing Idahoans to stockpile…
Members of Congress from timber country came through Friday with a promised one-year extension of federal payments to rural counties dominated by federal lands, reports AP reporter Jeff Barnard in Grants Pass, Ore. The one-time distribution of $346 million to 700 rural counties in 41…
The Idaho Supreme Court ruled that leases of state-owned cabin sites, like those on Payette and Priest lakes, are subject to competitive conflict auctions when the leases come up, striking down a state law that exempted the cottage sites. You can read the court's full…
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