Unlike neighboring states, Idaho’s not planning any fishing restrictions or closures due to warm water, state Fish & Game officials said today. “In many streams, what we’re seeing this year with water temperatures happens every year, we’re just seeing it sooner than normal,” said Jim…
Here’s a new item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys representing Idaho inmates in a class action lawsuit over prison health care told a federal judge Wednesday that prison officials intentionally misled a court-appointed examiner and the department should be punished by…
The 9th Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals has ruled against the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s bid to offer Texas Hold ‘Em poker at its reservation casino in Worley, finding that poker is “explicitly prohibited by Idaho law.” The tribe contended that Texas Hold ‘Em is...
The Idaho Supreme Court has agreed to allow former Idaho Attorney General David Leroy, attorney for Coeur d’Alene Racing, operator of the Greyhound Park Event Center in Post Falls, to participate in oral arguments in the instant racing case on Aug. 11. Previously, the court…
An appraisal of 10 acres of Boise land acquired by the College of Western Idaho for a Boise campus in April came in at $8.97 million, slightly above the college’s purchase price of $8.8 million, the Idaho Press-Tribune reports. Guy Hurlbutt, vice chairman of the…
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