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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 …
Labrador: Engine vote shows frosh power
BOISE - First-term U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador said he and his freshman Republican comrades passed their first big test last week by helping dump funding for a supersonic jet engine that had become a symbol of provinci…
Idaho Senate panel dumps health care nullification
BOISE (AP) - A bill to nullify the federal health insurance overhaul died Friday in a Senate committee, angering passionate supporters who chastised lawmakers with taunts of "coward" as they were leaving the comple…
School reform faces changes
BOISE - A plan to reform Idaho's public education system faces more changes in the state Legislature, where the sweeping overhaul has so far dominated the 2011 session.
Republicans push through two union-busting bills
BOISE - House Republicans pushed through two bills aimed at undermining union influence in Idaho, sending the measures to Gov. Butch Otter for signing into law.
Megaload No. 2 making good progress
LEWISTON (AP) - The second of four oversized loads of ConocoPhillips oil refinery equipment being shipped across Idaho to Montana arrived at a stopping point n…
Idaho briefs February 20, 2011
Motocyclist injured on Northwest Boulevard
Idaho sets budget target
BOISE - Lawmakers plan to write a state budget that will require nearly $92 million in cuts to Idaho agencies next year.
School reform moves forward
BOISE - Lawmakers started to weigh in on a plan to overhaul Idaho's public schools, moving the legislation forward despite strong opposition from the state teachers union and other groups.
Public schools chief details changes to education reforms
BOISE - Public schools chief Tom Luna on Monday detailed a list of changes to his plan to overhaul Idaho's K-12 education system, further easing online course requirements for students and making other changes, but…
Idaho briefs February 13, 2011
Trustee questions school's finances
Dinosaur species named for Boise State student and twin sister
BOISE - Boisean Celina Suarez and her twin sister, Marina, had always hoped they'd find dinosaur bones in the backyard of their childhood home in San Antonio, …
Lawmakers to 'rework' public education overhaul
BOISE - Lawmakers sent public schools chief Tom Luna and his plan to overhaul the K-12 education system back to the drawing board for a small rewrite Thursday, after three days of listening to testimony from teache…
Feds: Mobster fugitive captured in rural Idaho
MARSING - To his neighbors, he was Jay Shaw, the guy with the vaguely New York accent. He was known for fixing computers, buying everything with cash, raising …
Plan would bar ethics complaints
BOISE (AP) - A state House committee approved a plan Tuesday to bar residents from filing ethics complaints against lawmakers.
Hundreds flock to nullification hearing
BOISE - More than 200 people crowded into the Idaho Capitol on Wednesday for a hearing on a bill to void President Obama's health care overhaul, an effort that invokes the spirit of a 200-year-old state's rights do…