BOISE – Despite some misgivings by a few, the Legislature’s joint budget committee voted unanimously Friday to back the governor’s recommendation to increase the cap on the state’s main rainy-day savings account from 10% of general fund revenues to 15%, and to transfer $20 million from the s…

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BOISE — A little bit of Bosnia and Herzegovina came to downtown Boise Thursday night.

MOSCOW — Former University of Idaho athlete Mairin Jameson has settled her lawsuit against the school over its mishandling of a 2013 sexual assault complaint. Jameson is planning to work alongside new UI athletic director Terry Gawlik to “further improve the culture” within the institution’s…

Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on January 21, 2020Teresa Fabricius, Superintendent of the Fruitland School District, will retire at the end of the school year, Ontario newspaper the Argus Observer reported on Tuesday.

BOISE — About three-fourths of the way through Ebony Small’s victim-impact statement Thursday afternoon in an Ada County courtroom, 4th District Court Judge Steven Hippler told her she could take as long as she needed to speak.

POCATELLO — Congressmen Mike Simpson explained his case against impeaching President Donald Trump following a press conference Thursday. He called the effort to impeach Trump “a sham” and said he thought the accusations brought against the president didn’t rise to the level of impeachable offenses.

POCATELLO — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers and Congressman Mike Simpson announced a long-anticipated change to environmental regulations Thursday at Holt Arena amid a backdrop of tractors and combines for an agricultural equipment trade show.

MERIDIAN — Idaho State Police on Monday released its 2019 legislative report on sexual assault kit tracking and the agency’s progress in testing all new and previously unsubmitted kits in the state.

BOISE — Climate change is exaggerated and, to the extent that it's real, it's mostly good, a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute told Idaho lawmakers Thursday.

BOISE — State schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra told state lawmakers on Thursday that Idaho’s schools are on a “positive, upward trajectory” as she pitched her plan to increase state funding for schools next year by 5.3% to $1.99 billion.

CALDWELL — The Canyon County Historic Preservation Commission is hosting a grant workshop next month for historical groups who are interested in applying for a grant in 2021.

BOISE — A bill to get rid of daylight saving time in the state was introduced into the Idaho House on Thursday.

BOISE — Attorneys representing the Idaho Department of Correction’s director filed a motion last week to dismiss efforts by Ada County to hold the prison official in contempt of court for violating a decades-old court order regarding how long state prisoners can stay in the county’s jail.

BOISE — The Idaho Hispanic Chamber of Commerce hosted a sold-out luncheon Thursday to inform chamber members and Treasure Valley residents of the growth of Idaho’s largest minority group, Latinos.

BOISE — Police chiefs from across the state of Idaho joined with insurance interests, motorcycle groups, Sen. Chuck Winder and more on Thursday to back a proposed new statewide hands-free law for drivers.

GARDEN CITY — After a two-week break, the Ada County Highway District Commission on Wednesday narrowly approved roadway plans for the Spring Rock development outside Kuna.

More than a thousand Idaho inmates could be moved within months to a now-shuttered private prison in eastern Colorado if the state corrections department enters into a new contract, as approved on Wednesday in a bid to alleviate prison and jail overcrowding.

A series of mountain lion attacks on household pets in the Wood River Valley near Ketchum and an isolated killing of a dog in Cascade have caused the usually solitary and unseen species to take center stage in Idaho this winter.

GARDEN CITY — New bike lanes might be coming to downtown Boise’s Eighth and Jefferson streets this summer after an Ada County Highway District Commission vote moved two bike lane projects forward.

BOISE — For the fourth year out of the last five, Idaho lawmakers held a divisive hearing into the state’s school science standards on Wednesday, with more than two dozen people testifying, the majority of them favoring the standards.

BOISE — Gov. Brad Little signed an executive order Wednesday granting eight weeks of paid parental leave for all executive branch state employees, starting July 1.

BOISE — Emergency legislation was introduced on a party-line vote in the Senate Resources Committee on Wednesday to allow any Idahoan with a hunting license and a wolf tag to shoot wolves year-round in newly designated “wolf-free zones” in the state.

BOISE — Four bills that would make big changes to sales and property taxes in Idaho were introduced Wednesday.

FRUITLAND — A former Fruitland police officer pleaded guilty Friday to four felony sex crimes that officials say were committed against teenage boys in Payette County between October 2017 and last June.

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CALDWELL — Canyon County will accept thousands in grant money from the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, to reimburse the county for housing undocumented people in the jail.

The Ada County Board of Commissioners is in disagreement over how to best deal with the county’s next budget cycle.

GARDEN VALLEY — Police have identified the mother and son who died in what officials believe to be a murder-suicide near Garden Valley early Tuesday morning.

Four months after 7-year-old Joshua “J.J.” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan were last seen in public, their whereabouts remain unknown and under investigation.

BOISE — A local lawmaker plans to introduce a resolution supporting the use of Native American symbols by schools and other groups and discouraging their removal absent “a careful and effective public process.”

BOISE — A Garden City man accused of killing his uncle Sunday by cutting and stabbing him remains in jail Tuesday with a $5 million bond.

BOISE — At least 12 people have died of flu-related causes throughout the state this season, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

BOISE — Three years into an ambitious 10-year plan to reduce Idaho’s physician shortage by increasing residencies for newly trained doctors in the state, Idaho’s risen from 49th in the nation for primary care doctors per capita to 45th.

BOISE — As the Gem State’s population booms, Idahoans statewide are still struggling to keep a roof over their head.