It looks like a sweeping campaign finance reform initiative may fall short of the number of verified signatures needed to make the November ballot – even though backers collected roughly 79,000 signatures, when just 47,623 valid ones were required. We likely won’t have the final…
Boise is the fifth-safest driving city in the nation, according to a report from Allstate Insurance, which has been compiling its rankings annually for the past 12 years based on claims data and collisions. Boise has ranked in the top 10 every year for the…
Officials say mosquitoes in the cities of Nampa and Payette have tested positive for West Nile virus. The Idaho Press-Tribune reports that the infected mosquitoes in Nampa were from a trap collected Tuesday south of Lake Lowell in the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge area. The Payette mosquitoes were collected Monday in the Willow Creek...
Idaho Education News crunched the numbers after the first year of Idaho’s new teacher “career ladder,” which phases in performance-based pay improvements for Idaho teachers over five years. The results? Idaho’s average teacher salary went up 2.1 percent under the first year of the program,…
A grizzly bear attacked a mountain biker just outside Glacier National Park yesterday, knocked the 38-year-old cyclist off his bike and killed him, the AP reports. The rider, Brad Treat, was a law enforcement officer with the U.S. Forest Service. The last bear-related death at Glacier was in 1998...
This is an early and unpleasant reminder of what summer can bring in Boise: After a 101-degree day, still-warm temperatures and lightning overnight, Boise’s skies filled with smoke this morning. According to KBOI2 News, fireworks were the cause of a 1,500-acre wildfire near Table Rock...
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