Plans being developed by the education stakeholders task force include a sweeping new “career ladder” proposal for Idaho public school teachers that would raise Idaho’s minimum teacher pay from the current $31,000 to $40,000, and that would boost the top of the state’s teacher salary…
The Idaho Department of Labor has scheduled eight job fairs at its offices around southwestern Idaho over the next week to help MAXIMUS Inc. hire up to 1,800 permanent and seasonal customer service representatives and operations support staff for a large call center it plans…
A national moderate Republican group is pledging to match the Club for Growth’s anti-Mike Simpson spending “dollar for dollar” in the upcoming GOP primary race, Idaho Statesman columnist Dan Popkey reports, promising to make the 2nd District Idaho GOP congressional contest in 2014 a target…
A historic agreement 25 years in the making was signed today between all the various entities that provide emergency medical services in Ada County, bringing them into a joint powers agreement designed to provide a unified response system, anywhere in the county and regardless of…
Here's a news item from the Associated Press: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Idaho man who reported a road-rage encounter with a Portland police captain is suing the officer and city. In August 2011, Todd Wyatt waved his gun and badge in the window of…
A squadron of U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters at Mountain Home Air Force Base that's been grounded for three months due to the federal sequestration budget cuts is now flying again, after Congress agreed to shift funds from overseas operations, the AP reports. Col. Chris…
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