After two Idaho citizens, a retired math teacher and a CPA, urged the Citizens Committee on Legislative Compensation today to do away with the 1990 law that grants big boosts in state retirement pensions to longtime, part-time state legislators who late in their careers take...
Turnout in Idaho’s May 17 primary election was just 23 percent of registered voters statewide. That figure emerged today as the state Board of Canvassers met to officially certify the election results. “It could’ve been worse,” said Secretary of State Lawerence Denney, who chairs the…
Five conservation groups on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in Idaho seeking to stop a federal agency from killing wolves in the state until a new environmental analysis is prepared. Idaho-based Western Watersheds Project and four other groups in the 27-page federal lawsuit say the 2011 analysis by the USD's Wildlife Services is outdated...
Salaries for Idaho state legislators would rise 4 percent over the next two years, from the current $16,684 a year to just over $17,350, under a recommendation approved on a 3-2 vote today by the Citizens Committee on Legislative Compensation. The citizens commission recommendations stand unless the...
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