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C.L. ``Butch'' Otter slammed the former Idaho Transportation Department director who is suing the state on whistleblower and gender discrimination claims, calling her ineffective and saying he lost faith in her before she was fired.

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has extended wolf hunting seasons in all Idaho wolf zones not already closed to March 31.

Two months before the 2010 Idaho Legislature convenes, the session's bitter tenor is set: Public education funding is due to be slashed again and state agencies now scraping to get by could be eliminated to help cover a remaining $52 million budget shortfall.

It's called Steakhouse Hill for a reason. A stretch of U.S. Highway 95 on Moscow Mountain is a frequent crossing zone for moose, and that's resulted in numerous motorist injuries and animal fatalities.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday closed the Dworshak-Elk City zone after hunters reached the quota of 18 wolves for the area.

Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter is keeping things interesting regarding the Idaho wilderness.

Premature birth rates in the Pacific Northwest are among the lowest in the nation, but the March of Dimes says that only earns Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska C's on the organization's premature birth report card.

The Idaho Transportation Department's former chief has added claims to her lawsuit against the agency, including that she was fired illegally and without due process.

Since receiving Gov. Butch Otter's memo last week urging state agencies to look more closely for ways to cut budgets, Tom Shanahan with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, says the agency will look again at professional membership dues which have already been cut from last year's $45,000. "We've reduced it by half to some $24,000," he said.

CNN host Lou Dobbs says he is leaving CNN effective immediately. The longtime host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" says Wednesday on his show that it would be his last.

It's hard to think of a regular event in the state Capitol that's more chaotic than the annual Buy Idaho day, when purveyors of Idaho products annually fill all four floors of the Capitol rotunda with 100 or more booths, handing out samples of pork-n-seeds, fresh bread, candies and cosmetics and showcasing their businesses.

My husband and I are both proud University of Idaho alumni. We met at the university, and returned to Moscow several years after graduating.

Kayleigh Jack and her band took center stage Wednesday night at the Jo's Sunshine Lounge.

The Idaho State University history department is engaged in a revolutionary, interdisciplinary historical study that has attracted $1.7 million in funding from the National Science Foundation.

It isn’t often the National Science Foundation funds a project from a humanities discipline with a history professor as a principal investigator, but that is exactly what happened earlier this fall when ISU history professor J.B. “Jack” Owens received an award for a project titled “Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS.” About $1.3 million of the four-year grant will go to ISU, with about $471,000 to go to the University of Oklahoma and co-principal investigator May Yuan.

Jack Owens “It is unusual for a history professor to be the lead PI (principal investigator) for a National Science Foundation grant and to be a lead PI on this large of a NSF grant is extraordinary,” said Laura Woodworth-Ney, chair of the ISU history department. “This creates a ...

Three local wineries are opening a cooperative wine-tasting room in downtown Caldwell.

Officials at Southern Idaho Solid Waste say research is under way to determine if they can install methane-fueled power generators at its Milner Butte Landfill near Burley.

The soldier was identified Tuesday as 29-year-old Army Chief Warrant Officer Mathew C. Heffelfinger, of Kimberly.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has released it's weekly H1N1 report for the Gem State.

Christy Perry, small business owner and mother of three, announced Thursday she will run against incumbent Steve Kren for House Seat 13B.

Reports of influenza-like illnesses are widespread throughout the state of Idaho.