A Boise doctor was sentenced to eight years in federal prison today on 80 counts of unlawfully distributing controlled substances; Michael Minas, 50, was convicted on 80 counts by a jury in May. In addition to his prison term, U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge ordered…
Idaho’s suicide rate has long been far above the national average; the state had the 9th highest suicide rate in the country in 2014. But now, it has something it didn’t have then: A state Office of Suicide Prevention, ongoing state funding for the state’s 24/7 suicide prevention hotline, and an array of groups committed to a coordinated...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan told a story about, of all people, Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, in a speech in Arizona, in the course of talking about how her friendship with the late Justice Antonin Scalia developed. Kagan said her confirmation process...
Three years after a court ruling blocked pending “megaload” shipments from using the scenic U.S. Highway 12 river corridor in north-central Idaho, the Idaho Transportation Department is looking to update its rules governing such oversized shipments, the...
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