An audit by an independent education research group found that 99 percent of Idaho teacher evaluations reviewed were completed incorrectly, reports Idaho Education News; the audit turned up hundreds of errors. The teacher evaluations are key to the state’s new career ladder, for which state...
Idaho’s unemployment tax rate is dropping for the second straight year, with the 2017 decrease set at 6 percent, the state Department of Labor announced this week. That drops the standard rate to 1.395 percent, down from 1.488 percent in 2016. All rate classes will…
A new building for an old carousel has risen in downtown Coeur d’Alene, but the ponies won’t be spinning until next spring, writes S-R reporter Scott Maben. The historic carnival carousel once operated at Playland Pier on the city’s lakefront, but it has sat in…
The Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline is expanding its services by adding an additional phone line for people to call in crisis. The Idaho Statesman reports that the new phone number will also accept text messages Mondays through Fridays, between 3 p.m. and midnight...
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo has again been selected by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to chair the Senate’s Committee on Committees, meaning he’ll lead negotiations about which senators get which committee assignments. This is the seventh consecutive two-year congressional term that Crapo’s been tapped for…
Nancy Baskin, longtime staff attorney for U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge, has been appointed as a 4th District Court judge by Gov. Butch Otter. Baskin will succeed 4th District Judge Timothy Hansen when he retires in February. “Nancy brings to the state bench a wealth…
Idaho Department of Correction Director Kevin Kempf is resigning to take a job as the executive director of the Association of State Correctional Administrators. Kempf gave the state Board of Correction his resignation on Monday, he said in an email, calling the decision "bittersweet."
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