The Idaho Transportation Board today picked 17 road and bridge projects to be funded from state general fund surplus money, under a “surplus eliminator” that lawmakers approved during their 2015 legislative session. The projects, which total $54 million, are spread across all six districts of…
Ada County has a new magistrate judge: Boise attorney Jill Jurries, whose appointment was announced today by the 4th District Magistrate Commission. She’ll start in January. Idaho has 89 magistrate judges, 23 of them in the 4th District, which is centered in Ada County. Jurries,…
Boise State University announced a big new scholarship program today that will grant $2,000 a year for four years to any Idaho resident who meets financial need, grade and test score criteria and enrolls as a freshman next fall. The university has set aside enough to cover 400 students with the scholarship next fall - $800,000 - and fundraising...
An attorney for the state of Idaho says the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the wrong people over the state's allegedly unconstitutional public defense system – and they’d be better off suing county commissioners, magistrates or judges. In response to the arguments from Deputy…
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