What’s a public record? What’s not? What does the Idaho Open Meeting Law require? The public is invited to learn about those questions and more at a workshop Tuesday evening in Boise led by Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, and sponsored by Idahoans for Openness…
A bungled attempt at insurance fraud has netted a Pocatello man three years probation plus restitution and fines. The Idaho Attorney General’s office, which prosecuted the case after an investigation by the Idaho Department of Insurance’s fraud investigation unit, reports that Jeffrey J. Zausch, 28,…
A half-dozen pro-wolf activists from around the country demonstrated at the Idaho Statehouse today, and a woman from Virginia chained herself to the door of the governor’s office, demanding that Gov. Butch Otter respond to the group’s concerns. Otter, ironically, was in Virginia. Members of...
A late-season wildfire 40 miles northeast of Boise is 96 percent contained and Idaho's wildfire season appears to be coming to a close. Fire officials on Monday say more than an inch of rain has fallen on the 9-square-mile Walker Fire in the last several days and more wet weather...
Gov. Butch Otter has joined eight other governors, seven of them Democrats, in urging Congress to lift trade restrictions against Cuba, the Times-News reports. In a letter to congressional leaders, the nine governors argued that that American food and agriculture producers are losing market opportunities…
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