People in Idaho affected by wildfires who need emotional support are being offered a free help line from Optum, the company that manages the Idaho Behavioral Health Plan; the toll-free emotional support help line is open to anyone. At (866) 342-6892, the line will be…
The Tepee Springs Fire jumped the Salmon River on Saturday morning in a several-mile-wide run driven by high, gusting winds in the Allison Creek area; the wildfire’s advance was so ferocious that firefighters had to leave the area until the wind died down. “It was...
A unanimous Idaho Supreme Court has cleared the way for a lawsuit to proceed against the Boy Scouts of America and the LDS Church by a group of men who are suing for fraud, saying they were sexually abused by scout leaders as children, and...
Idaho’s public school endowment made $15.65 million on Friday when the state auctioned off 35 lakefront cabin sites on Priest Lake – with every one of them purchased at the appraised price by the cabin owners. There was no competitive bidding on any of the...
After promising that new corporate sponsorship programs for Idaho’s state parks wouldn’t lead to renaming state parks for Coca-Cola or Doritos, state parks board members were faced with new administrative rules last week that actually didn’t rule that out. The proposed rules put lots of…
With Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s GOP presidential campaign hitting Coeur d’Alene, Boise, Nampa and Idaho Falls this week, Idaho GOP Chairman Stephen Yates says Idaho Republicans are getting more chance now to view the candidates. “That’s absolutely welcome,” Yates said. “We think having an early…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a potato genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine and that still damages crops. Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co. says that the…
Another 20-plus Idaho National Guard members joined the state’s firefighting effort today, headed from Boise to the Panhandle National Forests to provide support to firefighting operations in the Grizzly Complex fires. That’s on top of the 40 Idaho Air National Guard members who headed north…
Things have gotten worse at the Tepee Springs Fire, and the BLM’s Cottonwood Field Office just announced that the escape route that was being used to ferry rafters off the Salmon River at French Creek, via Forest Road 246 to McCall, is no longer safe...
A federal judge in North Dakota on Thursday blocked a new Obama administration rule that would give the federal government jurisdiction over some smaller waterways just hours before it was set to go into effect, the AP reports. U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson in Fargo...
The federal government plans to spend more than $200 million over the next three years on programs to protect greater sage grouse in Western states, regardless of whether the bird receives federal protections, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday. Vilsack told The Associated Press…
Rafters are being pulled off the Salmon River above Riggins in Idaho in an unprecedented nearly 18-mile river closure due to the approaching Tepee Springs Fire. The rafters are being loaded into hastily arranged shuttles and buses for a two-hour ride down a bumpy dirt road...
Nearly 18 miles of the Lower Salmon River upstream of Riggins has been closed to all recreational activities, due to the Tepee Springs Fire, authorities announced today; it’s part of a huge area closure due to the fast-growing fire that’s expected to reach the river today; it had...
Rand Paul told a crowd of just over 300 at Boise State University today that at a recent barbecue, the guy ahead of him was taking two plates of food, so he advised him he wasn’t going to live long eating like that. “He said...
Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador told today’s “Stand With Rand” rally that many promising candidates have been elected to Congress. “The dirty little secret is when they got to Washington, D.C., they forgot the promises they made to their constituents,” he said. “Sadly, I saw that...
Ann Michelle Ciampini, chair of the BSU College Republicans, was the first to take the podium at today’s “Stand With Rand” rally, introducing a video of Rand Paul’s wife, Kelly Ashby Paul, talking about how she met him and who he is. She said Rand…
People are gathering in the BSU Student Union for Rand Paul’s rally this morning, which has been moved to the Hatch Ballroom from the smaller Barnwell Room. The 258 chairs are mostly full, and a few are starting to gather in standing room in the...
GOP presidential hopeful Rand Paul holds a rally at Boise State University's SUB this morning at 11:30, followed by another at the Nampa Civic Center at 2:45; both events, like another last night at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene, are billed as “Stand With...
Health insurance plans in Idaho will see rate increases next year, the AP reports, ranging from 7 percent to 26 percent. Idaho Department of Insurance Director Dean Cameron said he did not find any proposed rate changes to be unreasonable. "In spite of our best...
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has the ability to reseed and rehabilitate a giant burned area on the Idaho-Oregon border where a wildfire scorched primary sage grouse habitat and grasslands needed by ranchers, the agency's director says. "We're going to stay after it and…
The Idaho Air National Guard deployed 40 members today to support firefighting efforts for the Tower Fire, which is nearing the Washington-Idaho line in North Idaho. The Guard members were placed on active duty on Aug. 26 at the order of Gov. Butch Otter; they...
The financially troubled Troy School District is breathing a sigh of relief, after a $995,000, one-year supplemental levy passed with 73 percent of the vote on Tuesday. That will allow the district to restore cuts amounting to a third of its budget, imposed after two…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: GARDEN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — This academic year marks the first that a remote Idaho school district will make guns available to trained staff members in the event that an active shooter is on the 300-student campus.…
Gov. Butch Otter is calling for applicants for an opening in January on the state Public Utilities Commission. “We are looking for candidates who possess the right mix of enthusiasm and temperament to oversee one of the most vital regulatory functions in state government,” Otter…
An Idaho state representative’s Facebook post of herself proudly posing with a Confederate flag has touched a nerve in the state, which still resents being associated with the racism of Richard Butler’s Aryan Nations. Rep. Heather Scott, a Blanchard Republican, posted the picture on Facebook…
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