State schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra’s chief deputy, former Nampa Superintendent Pete Koehler, has decided to stay on through the end of the calendar year, rather than leaving next month, Idaho Education News reports. Koehler told EdNews reporter Clark Corbin, “It was kind like being in...
State Racing Commissioner Jim Hammond, a former state senator from Post Falls, said today that the Racing Commission had “very little discussion” yesterday when it unanimously approved a moratorium on all new “instant racing” machines and locations in Idaho. “The appointing authority for the board...
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A large shorebird that nests in grasslands and uses its extra-long beak to pluck crustaceans from mudflats and wolf spiders from animal burrows will be the subject of an intense study this summer…
It was early this morning when Idaho Fish & Game received a call about a moose meandering along Hill Road in Boise’s North End, near 23rd Street. “It started to turn south and that was a concern, because it was headed in the direction of...
Gov. Butch Otter has allowed SB 1175 to become law without his signature, the budget bill for the state Department of Administration for next year. The measure passed the Senate unanimously and the House on a 61-8 vote; it cuts the state general funds going to the department by...
Curt Fransen, director of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality since February 2012, will retire on May 22, Gov. Butch Otter announced today; Otter said he’s in the process of finding a successor. “While perhaps there is no good time for a director to retire,...
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