Idaho News

A senator's latest quest to roust illegal immigrants from Idaho is over, at least for now.

Legislation co-sponsored by Gov. Butch Otter, Senate Tax Chairman Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, and House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, cleared the House Revenue & Taxation Committee this morning and headed off to the full House, to boost an existing tax credit for donations to Idaho schools, libraries, and Idaho Public Television and also expand it ...

The kill was reported Dec. 28 in the Southern Idaho Zone, in a hunting unit that stretches from Rexburg down past Ririe, Ucon, Rigby and Roberts.

A single project in Idaho has finally been awarded a grant from the federal government intended to improve broadband Internet access in rural areas.

Idaho could soon begin minting its own silver currency. Silver medallions, proposed by state Rep.

Sen. Denton Darrington , R-Declo, said the bill would give grandparents stronger rights in custody battles.

KIVI Today's Channel 6 News After life of hardship, Boise man wins $250,000 in Idaho Lottery For many, the road of life is often filled with both hardships and blessings.

America should reserve a place for God in the public domain and speak English when doing government business, according to a symbolic measure passed 50-17 in the House.

Defense attorneys for a Moscow man accused in the slaying of his wife and unborn child are asking a judge to throw out the murder charge related to the fetus.

C.L. "Butch" Otter to order midyear law changes to balance the bottom line. The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee voted 16-2 Thursday for a total $1.55 billion budget, including a $298 million state general fund share.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is mulling which of its 40 statewide offices it could eliminate to save money in the face of anticipated budget cuts in 2011.

Idaho lawmakers are cracking down on people who plant fake bombs. Under a measure the House State Affairs Committee approved Tuesday, placing a hoax bomb would become a felony punishable by five years in prison.

Lately Mother Nature has unleashed her fury across the globe with the most recent hitting Chile.

The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee is due to set the fiscal year 2011 schools budget on Wednesday.

As many as 22 Idaho Transportation Department employees were disciplined by the agency for improperly using state equipment, with two losing their jobs.

Republicans targeted Washington, D.C. Tuesday, pushing measures to free up Idaho-made guns from federal control, to allow payments with silver and gold and to wrest control of public land away from the U.S. government.

An Idaho senator is walking a tightrope on poultry-related legislation. Sen. Tim Corder, R-Mountain Home, has secured the Humane Society of the United States' support for his bill to make cockfighting a felony but its ire on another measure he hopes will help thwart the animal-rights group's efforts to outlaw cramped cages for chickens.

Farm equipment dealership, Agri-Service, headquartered in Twin Falls, Idaho is now employee owned, according to new release.

Wednesday could be the day eight Idahoans and two Americans are released from a Haitian jail.

Vaughn Ward has an opponent - two, if you count Idaho's May 25 primary and the Nov.