I’ll have a full story in Sunday’s Spokesman-Review on today’s announcement of a landmark settlement in the long-running Jeff D. lawsuit over children’s mental health services in Idaho. In the meantime, check out this 2002 story by S-R reporter Jonathan Martin that profiled Jeff D.,…
The Idaho Democratic Party has postponed the election of a new state party chair until Aug. 1; Vice Chair Jeanne Buell will remain acting chair in the meantime. Former Chairman Larry Kenck stepped down due to health reasons; thus far, three hopefuls, Dean Ferguson, Randy…
Thirteen states, including Idaho, will share in $10 million worth of land restoration projects designed to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced today. Eight of the states are in the West; others include Georgia, Florida, Virginia and…
With various parties clamoring to intervene in the instant racing case, the Idaho Supreme Court issued an order today allowing Gov. Butch Otter, Coeur d’Alene Racing and Treasure Valley Racing to file “friend of the court” briefs in the case, but not to participate in…
Settlement of the long-running Jeff D. lawsuit over children’s mental health care in Idaho was announced today by the state Department of Health & Welfare. The settlement agreement calls for an eight-year series of actions designed to provide a statewide, community-based system to serve the...
After a piece of marble wainscoting trim in the state Capitol’s lower-level east wing came crashing down at the touch of a 5-year-old girl this week, Jan Frew, deputy administrator of the state’s Division of Public Works and the executive project manager for the Capitol…
Idaho's online insurance exchange needs to collect $9 million in annual revenue by the summer of 2017, up from the current $6 million, or risk dipping into its limited reserves in order to stay in business, the AP reports. State health insurance exchanges stopped getting…
News, happenings and more from the Idaho Legislature and the state capital.
