There's good news on the bear front: BooBoo is heading back to the woods. Idaho Fish & Game reported today that the injured bear cub, who was rescued by firefighters after he was found clinging to a tree with four badly burned paws amid the…
A proposal to amend the state Board of Education's policy regarding required health insurance for state university students failed today, when a motion to approve it for a first reading failed to even get a second. The changes would have included lifting a requirement that…
The Idaho Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from frequent political candidate and former elk rancher Rex Rammell in his lawsuit against the state over the shooting of his escaped domestic elk. In the unanimous ruling authored by Justice Jim Jones, the court held that…
The state Board of Education will again consider changes to its policy requiring that full-time public college and university students have health insurance, in a special meeting today that starts at 1 p.m. The Lewiston Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/QfQpB4) that the board took up the issue…
Helene Byrne is 110 years old, and one of the few with memories from the Great Fire of 1910, the Twin Falls Times-News reports; the Buhl resident celebrated her 110th birthday on Wednesday. Click below for the full report from reporter Alison Gene Smith of…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) ― Idaho's first big solar energy project could begin construction soon, a bright spot for alternative energy developers that are wrangling with regulators and utilities over their future. Solar panels for the Grandview Solar…
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