Idaho state employee pay remains more than 20 percent below market rates, according to a new state report, despite the 3 percent merit raises that lawmakers granted state workers this year; you can read my full story here at spokesman.com. “It was a lot of money,”...
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden says he's supporting the Navy’s plans for a new waste facility for nuclear waste from warships at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho, and the plan is consistent with the 1995 agreement between Idaho and the federal government requiring…
Here’s a bit of an oddity: The Legislature’s Joint Millennium Fund Committee has scheduled a full day and a half of hearings later this week to hear from 23 groups seeking funding for next year. But the Legislature’s interim working group on the alternatives for…
Idaho’s supplemental levy tax bill for has hit an all-time record this year, Idaho EdNews reports. Property taxpayers will shell out $188.8 million in voter-approved supplemental levies in 2016-17, up from $186.6 million in 2015-16; the previous high-water mark was $188.1 million in 2013-14. Supplemental…
A 40-acre grove of cedar trees near Lake Pend Oreille could be logged next summer to generate cash for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, reports S-R reporter Becky Kramer. With western red cedar prices trending near all-time highs, Fish and Game expects to…
The Navy and U.S. Department of Energy have announced that they'll build a $1.65 billion facility at a nuclear site in eastern Idaho that will handle fuel waste from the nation's fleet of nuclear-powered warships. Officials on Tuesday said the new facility is needed at keeping nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines deployed...
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