On tonight’s “Idaho Reports,” I join Jim Weatherby, Kevin Richert, and co-hosts Aaron Kunz and Melissa Davlin to discuss the events of the fifth week of the legislative session, including the Idaho Education Network developments, instant racing, and bills on guns and abortion. The show...
Legislation introduced Friday by the Idaho Sheriff’s Association would repeal a law that dates back to the 1860s and deals with jurisdiction and duels. “Every year the Sheriffs Association tasks me with trying to find obscure laws, and I think I’ve found some good ones…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Five conservation groups that contend federal officials in Idaho are violating environmental laws by killing wolves, coyotes and other wildlife to protect livestock and crops have filed a federal lawsuit. Idaho-based Western Watersheds…
The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the state in a long-running eminent domain dispute with a developer who was trying to build a shopping center on Highway 95 north of Coeur d’Alene – and has even ordered the developer to pay some…
It may be time for Idaho to establish a gaming commission, Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden told “Idaho Reports” in an interview for tonight’s program. “The question is: Do we have gaming in this state? The answer is yes, we do,” Wasden said. “Perhaps the…
A Senate committee wasn’t enthusiastic, but agreed this morning to introduce legislation proposed by Sen. Marv Hagedorn, R-Meridian, to revamp Idaho’s concealed weapon laws. Changes include removing the current exemption from concealed-weapon permit laws for state legislators and other state and local elected officials, and…
A seasonal food-truck court across from Sandpoint’s popular summer weekend farmers’ market in Farmin Park has been unable to get a beer and wine license because state laws require a permanent building and kitchen facilities, Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint says, so she’s drafted legislation to…
News, happenings and more from the Idaho Legislature and the state capital.
