A jury in Idaho has convicted an Uzbek refugee of three terrorism-related charges after prosecutors said he worked to support a terrorist organization and gathered explosive materials in his Boise apartment. Fazliddin Kurbanov,...
The National Fire Preparedness Level is being raised to its highest point, PL-5, effective at 5:30 a.m. on Thursday – the first time it’s hit that level since August of 2013. The decision to raise the level, which was made by the National Multi-Agency Coordinating...
The U.S. Forest Service has seen a stunning shift in its operations and priorities, with the growing cost of fighting wildfires eating up much of the agency’s budget and “crippling” its ability to do anything else, according to a Forest Service report released last week.…
Former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig will go to court Oct. 7 to argue that he shouldn’t have to repay nearly a quarter-million dollars in campaign funds he used in connection with his 2007 arrest in a Minnesota airport bathroom sex sting, Roll Call reports today.…
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, along with Sen. Jim Risch and Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, visited the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise today to hear the latest, troubling news about this year’s difficult fire season, and speak out for legislation Crapo and Wyden have introduced…
A federal judge has sanctioned Idaho for misleading the court about medical and mental health care for inmates. The ruling from U.S. District Judge David Carter means that the Idaho Department of Correction will remain under the court's supervision until at least the fall of 2017...
People who rent out rooms in their homes to the public for temporary lodging are liable for sales and room taxes on those rentals, the Idaho State Tax Commission says; they’re reminding Idahoans they need to collect and remit those taxes. “As more people open…
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