Idaho News

Police say a 45-year-old Idaho inmate who escaped from a work-release program and was being sought in connection with the robbery of a Utah bank has taken a woman hostage and barricaded himself in a Salt Lake City hotel.

Three more longtime senior employees of the Idaho State Tax Commission have come forward with sworn statements charging that secret tax deals were offered to those with political influence, and now Rep.

Athol Republican House Rep. Phil Hart - who BW readers might remember for his sponsorship of The Idaho Silver Gem Act , which would've allowed Idahoans to pay their taxes with silver bars mined in Rep.

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It looks like the military's new F-35 fighter jets won't be coming to southwest Idaho.

The Clearwater National Forest's Lolo Pass Visitor Center, located on the Idaho-Montana state line along U.S. Highway 12, will host the Traveler's Rest Brigade at Lolo Pass July 31 - "Aug. 1. The focus of the two-day event is the history and culture of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery.

A wildfire burning in the Eagle foothills Wednesday afternoon destroyed three homes and a barn, and forced the evacuation of hundred of homes.

Last update: July 28, 2010 - 6:33 PM This week's Market Watch highlights sweet corn from Hansen's Hidden Acres at the Bloomington Farmers Market .

Higher taxes at the pump. That's the solution Governor Otter's transportation funding task force is seriously considering to make up a potential $250 million shortfall in funding for Idaho's highways over the next 10 years.

Work by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to add nutrients to Dworshak Reservoir has been stalled while the agencies try to secure permits from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Many people are concerned about the animals and livestock in the area where fires are burning near Eagle.

At least three homes were damaged and dozens more evacuated Wednesday as a wind-whipped grassfire northwest of Idaho's capital city expanded to thousands of acres and threatened rural subdivisions.

Firefighting planes and about 50 fire trucks, engines, water tenders and brush rigs have been dispatched to put out a grassfire that's burning northwest of Boise.

Growing outbreaks of whooping cough a ' including a California epidemic that has killed six babies a ' are worrying public health officials who fear that sporadic vaccination practices may be contributing to dangerous cases of the preventable disease.

It will be another humid and stormy day across southern Idaho. In the Treasure Valley we could see a few thunderstorms passing through in the afternoon and evening, some of which could become severe.

Labels can be dangerous. Many "lease" deals are really sales for tax purposes. If you "lease" a copier and can buy the copier for $1 at the end of the lease, the tax law says it's a sale; that means you capitalize and depreciate the real purchase price of the copier , and you deduct the "financing fees" as interest.

Baroness Ashton has drawn up a secret plan to take direct control of running Bosnia with new European Union powers to target Serb hardliners accused of challenging the state and blocking political reform.

Idaho motorists are paying more and more of the cost of maintaining the state's roads, while drivers of heavy trucks are paying less, according to a new state study - though the trucks are causing far more damage to the roads.

A severely wounded Marine from Cottonwood received a standing ovation on the floor of the House of Representatives Monday.

President Obama has approved Gov. Butch Otter's request for help in rebuilding Idaho counties that were hit hard by flooding.