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Man charged after driving through school gates
A driver allegedly crashed through two closed crossing gates at Washington Elementary in Sandpoint, prompting new …
Ketchum hotel on fast track to auction
KETCHUM (AP) - A luxury hotel in the resort town of Ketchum that has been on the market for two years appears headed for the auction block.
Post Falls High band to present swing dance tonight
POST FALLS - The Post Falls High band will present a swing dance called Sentimental Journey on tonight at 7 in the high school commons area.
Lawmakers unveil revamped bill for education reform
BOISE (AP) - Lawmakers unveiled the third piece of a plan to reform Idaho's public schools with more technology in the classroom.
Extension of energy rebate stalls
BOISE (AP) - A tax break extension for Idaho's alternative energy developers is stalled until next week after talks late Thursday between utility lobbyists, wind developers, legislators and Gov. Butch Otter's offic…
Ringing in reform
BOISE (AP) - Gov. Butch Otter signed a law Thursday to phase out tenure for new teachers and restrict collective bargaining in Idaho.
House passes bill to allow guns on campus
BOISE (AP) - The Idaho House approved a bill Wednesday that would allow firearms on public university and college campuses.
Grocery tax expansion may be delayed
BOISE (AP) - Lawmakers are taking up a plan to delay expansion of Idaho's grocery tax credit for one year to help balance the state budget in 2012, as recommended by Gov. Butch Otter.
Prosecutors indict 30 gang members
BOISE (AP) - Authorities say they have secured state and federal indictments against 30 members of a street gang active in narcotics trafficking and other crimes in southwestern Idaho and eastern Oregon.
House committee adopts $34 million cut in Medicaid
BOISE - A House committee has approved a bill calling for more than $34 million in cuts to the state Medicaid program, savings critical to helping solve the state's overall budget puzzle but also spelling the suspe…
Local Briefs March 14, 2011
Water workshops to be offered
Idaho Briefs March 13, 2011
Man gets life for kidnapping, rape
Jobless benefits extended
BOISE (AP) - Senators passed extended unemployment benefits for thousands of jobless Idaho workers, over objections of conservative lawmakers who called this a "hand-out, not a hand-up."
Briefs March 11, 2011
Idaho snowpack level near normal
Protestors circle Capitol
BOISE (AP) - Hundreds of teachers, students, parents and union activists circled the Idaho Capitol in Boise in a human chain to protest education reforms now progressing to Gov. Butch Otter's desk for signing.
House approves teacher merit pay
BOISE - Lawmakers in the Idaho House approved legislation Wednesday to introduce a pay-for-performance plan for teachers, sending the bill to the governor's desk.