Idaho owes more than $930,000 in legal fees to Syringa Networks, the company that successfully sued to overturn the $60 million contract for the now-defunct Idaho Education Network. That’s according to a June 30 ruling from 4th District Judge Patrick Owen, reports Kevin Richert of...
This Friday, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, more than a thousand people are expected to circle the Idaho Capitol in a “Hands Around the Capitol” commemoration, Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney will host demonstrations inside the Capitol of…
Sun Valley has been approved by the U.S. Olympic Committee for four new Olympic training sites for alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, free-ride skiing and snowboarding starting this summer, the Idaho Mountain Express reports; previously, it had only a Nordic training site. "Nordic was good, but…
Which matters more: what the state constitution says or what the Idaho Senate does? That’s the big question in legal arguments submitted to the Idaho Supreme Court in advance of an Aug. 11 hearing in the “instant racing” case, with implications for gambling in Idaho…
Gov. Butch Otter knew for months that the federal government had withheld funding for Idaho's now-failed school broadband program, but lawmakers remained in the dark until much later, the AP reports. According to a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Otter wrote to one of…
As Fazliddin Kurbanov, an Uzbek who came to Boise as a refugee, goes to trial today on terrorism charges, U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson has been reaching out to the refugee community, refugee support agencies, the Muslim community, law enforcement and other groups in an effort…
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