The recount is complete in an Ada County commissioner’s race – and the result was identical to that recorded on election night, with former Commissioner Sharon Ullman losing to current Commissioner Dave Case by 1,301 votes. “The results ended up exactly the same,” Chief Deputy…
A $50 million-a-year state contract to provide dental insurance coverage for Idaho’s poor is on hold amid complaints of unfair bidding competition. Blue Cross had held Idaho’s Medicaid dental contract since 2010, but lost its hold on the program serving 277,000 people to Florida-based MCNA Dental, which has been winning similar contracts...
Idaho’s State Board of Education today voted to ban alcohol sales at most home football games at Idaho universities for the coming season – including to ticket-holders at Boise State University and University of Idaho games. VIPs at BSU games still will be able to…
The Idaho Capitol won't be bathed in rainbow hues like other public buildings across the county, officials say, unless gay pride organizers bring their own lights. Boise Pridefest culminates this weekend with a festival in the park in front of the Capitol, but state officials denied organizers' request for rainbow lighting...
Ada County election officials will recount votes for the county Commissioner District 3 seat at the request of an unsuccessful candidate. Sharon Ullman's request for a recount of six precincts comes after she lost in the May Republican primary to current Commissioner Dave Case. The Idaho Attorney General's and Secretary of State's offices...
The House Natural Resources Committee approved Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador's public lands bill on a 25-13 party-line vote Wednesday, reports Bill Spence of the Lewiston Tribune, who is reporting from Washington, D.C. The Self-Sufficient Community Lands Act would allow states to select as many as…
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