Idaho

Reclaim Idaho, which fought to expand Medicaid health insurance in Idaho last year, wants to know more about why Brigham Young University-Idaho this week mysteriously decided to reject coverage for students.

For the fourth consecutive month Idaho’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 2.9% in October.

Kimberly Kolner has been confirmed as Planning and Zoning Director for the city of Victor. 

Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) spent over $332 million with small businesses in Fiscal Year 2019. 

American Falls and Challis will each receive $150,000 in federal grants.

U.S. Attorney for Idaho Bart Davis says the Department of Justice is launching an initiative designed to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearm laws. 

Vehicle owners will need to provide proof of insurance for two consecutive months or risk having their registration suspended beginning in 2020.

A panel of lawmakers is looking at making changes to Idaho’s only independent performance evaluations agency, possibly by having staffers focus more on legislative budgets and less on whether state programs are working properly.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has asked most state agencies to trim their current budgets by 1% and prepare for more cuts in the coming year.

Robert Schaefer, an architect and state lawmaker who served in the Idaho House of Representatives for 28 years, has died. He was 83.

More than 7,200 Idaho children lost health insurance coverage between 2017 to 2018, according to a new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.  

A federal lawsuit challenging Idaho’s ballot initiative process as unconstitutional because it requires signatures from multiple legislative districts has been dismissed.

Governor brad Little is approving an Emergency Management Assistance Compact agreement with California to help with recovery efforts following wildfires.

An Idaho agency responsible for enforcing state and federal anti-discrimination laws is bolstering its verbal and written translation abilities to make sure individuals with limited English skills have access to services.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) – Backers of a proposed ballot initiative to raise $170 million for K-12 public schools by increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations have started collecting signatures to get the measure on the November 2020 ballot.   Reclaim Idaho spokesman Jeremy Gugino said Monday that the group started the effort over the

Lawmakers are examining property tax options amid complaints that taxes are going up with rising property values, while also hearing concerns from cities and counties that they’re operating on tight budgets. The Property Tax Working Group took no action Monday following a day of presentations that also included university and state financial experts. Ultimately, the