President Trump on Monday re-nominated Judge David Nye to fill Idaho’s long-vacant second U.S. District judge position. Nye was among 10 judicial nominees Trump named Monday; he’s one of two on the list who already was nominated for the post by former President Obama, and received unanimous support in the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and Planned Parenthood say it’s time to dismiss a lawsuit challenging two anti-abortion laws in Idaho. Earlier this year, a federal judge agreed to give the Legislature time to repeal two laws passed in 2015 banning women from receiving abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine. Lawmakers begrudgingly...
Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador, who drew national ridicule over the weekend for his comment at a Lewiston town hall on Friday that “nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care,” issued a statement on Facebook over the weekend saying his comment “wasn’t very…
These days, former Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne is the chief representative of the life insurance industry, traveling the country and the world, giving speeches and representing insurers to the Trump administration, states, international groups and nations. It’s a role that’s brought the former Boise mayor, U.S. senator and U.S. secretary...
It’s pretty much unheard-of for statewide TV ads in an Idaho governor’s race to begin airing more than a year before the primary election, but that’s what’s happening. Tommy Ahlquist, a Boise physician and developer who’s running as a Republican, has been running two ads since March...
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