Idaho News

BOISE, Idaho | By KEITH RIDLER (AP)   -    The director of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality says the agency needs money to clean up or contain past mining waste. John Tippets told the Legislatur... Read More...

BOISE, Idaho | By TOMMY SIMMONS (AP)   -   A new report from the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy found Idaho has the sixth-highest growth rate for spending on corrections in the last 25 years. The Idaho Press... Read More...

BOISE, Idaho (AP)   -   Idaho Gov. Brad Little issued two executive orders that he says will cut government red tape. Little on Thursday signed an order requiring that every regulation that an agency chooses... Read More...

ARIMO, Idaho (AP)   -   A school district board chairman says the board has unknowingly violated the Idaho open meetings law for years after conducting its entire annual superintendent evaluation behind closed ... Read More...

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP)   -   Authorities say one person was killed in an avalanche in central Idaho on Wednesday afternoon. The Blaine County Sheriff's Office says the victim, 50-year-old Kirk Douglas Rongen of... Read More...

BOISE, Idaho | By KEITH RIDLER (AP)   -   The Idaho House of Representatives has expelled one of its members a day after he was convicted of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government. The House voted 65-0 Th... Read More...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP)   -   An Idaho highway will remain closed as law enforcement works to clean up spilled diesel fuel from a multi-vehicle crash that left 33 people injured. Idaho National Laboratory of... Read More...

BOISE, Idaho (AP)    -    Idaho residents who are experiencing a mental health crisis can now dial 2-1-1 to reach a suicide prevention hotline. Gov. Brad Little announced the partnership between the 211 Idah... Read More...

BOISE, Idaho | By KEITH RIDLER (AP)   -   A panel of Idaho lawmakers has taken testimony involving Idaho's education standards on English and literacy for the state's 300,000 students put forward by the Idaho S... Read More...