Gov. Butch Otter has appointed former state Rep. Pete Black, D-Pocatello, to a vacant position on the Idaho Parks and Recreation Board. Black was House assistant minority leader from 1986 to 1996; he’ll represent District 5, replacing former board member Jean McDevitt. The parks board,…
The first sockeye salmon of the season has returned to the Sawtooth Basin near Stanley, Idaho Fish & Game reports, arriving yesterday evening. Though it’s the only one so far, Idaho Fish & Game spokesman Roger Phillips says they’re not anticipating another “Lonesome Larry” situation,...
Former Idaho House speaker Tom Boyd died Monday at age 86; he was speaker of the House for three terms before retiring from the Legislature in 1992. A Republican who was known as a “peacemaker” and a “consensus-builder,” the Lewiston Tribune reports that at the…
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