The Idaho Republican Party has announced four national speakers who will be featured at the upcoming state party convention in Nampa that runs this Thursday through Saturday: David Keene, Kimberley Strassel, Foster Friess and Buck Sexton. Keene, former president of the NRA (2011-2013) and the...
In a unanimous opinion authored by Chief Justice Jim Jones, the Idaho Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Rangen Inc., which contended that a lower-court ruling upholding a water-rights mitigation plan was flawed; the plan called for several irrigation districts to divert 12 cubic…
Idaho Fish & Game Commissioner Mark Doerr of Twin Falls has joined commission Chairman Will Naillon in announcing he won’t reapply for his post – and criticizing state legislators for meddling in the management of fish and wildlife in Idaho, the Lewiston Tribune reports. “We…
When Cecil Andrus closed Idaho’s borders to nuclear waste, the former Democratic governor’s decisive action captured the attention of the nation and put pressure on the federal government to remove long-stored waste from a nuclear research complex near Idaho Falls. “Did I have the authority to do that? No, I did not,” Andrus said with a grin...
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