Idaho News

The Pacific Northwest Economic Region confab between U.S. and Canadian businesses and governments convenes in Boise next week.

" The Idaho House speaker who single-handedly killed legislation this year to require personal financial disclosure from the state's elected officials now says he won't do it again.

The University of Idaho refuses to release identities of those investigating whether the head of its Caine Veterinary Teaching and Research Center in Caldwell suppressed a 1994 study on bighorn sheep deaths.

Gov. Butch Otter and University of Idaho President M. Duane Nellis have jointly announced an indefinite delay in the proposed closure of the Parma Research and Extension Center, a closure that drew an outcry of protest from fruit growers and others in the area.

On July 3rd, 1890, Idaho became our nation's 43rd state. Idaho was originally part of the Oregon Country, and was claimed by both the United States and Great Britain until the U.S. gained jurisdiction in 1846.

Never honk when close to a bicyclist, it is startling. That's one of the new recommendations that will appear in the new Idaho Driver's Manual to be published later this summer.

From the Idaho Fish and Game Department -- Winners in the first of two Idaho Super Hunt drawings have been selected.

Officials with Boise wind-farm developer Exergy Development Group say the company plans to build 14 new wind farms this year in southern Idaho.

Americans will celebrate the country's birthday this year in the midst of a brutal recession and rampant unemployment.

As summer activities take Idahoans into the great outdoors, health experts are raising awareness about skin cancer rates.

Idaho businesses hired fewer people last month than they have during June for the last decade, pushing the forecasted seasonally adjusted unemployment rate up another half percentage point to 8.3 percent.

Once again, would-be ex-smokers can request free nicotine patches, gum and lozenges from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare's Project Filter.

The national recession not only reduced migration to Idaho from other states and countries in 2008, but it slowed the exodus of people from Idaho's rural communities, new U.S. Census Bureau estimates indicate.

Lawmakers met on how to shift $22 million from Idaho's gas tax that now pays for state troopers and Department of Parks and Recreation programs to road maintenance in July 2010.

Exergy Development Group will begin this summer to build 14 wind parks across southern Idaho that will produce 228 megawatts of electricity and put Idaho in the top 20 states for wind power.

The Idaho Repertory Theatre's 2009 season runs July 1 through Aug. 8 with a variety of summer plays and other productions performed and produced by university theatre majors and visitors.

Police in northcentral Idaho are treating the death of a pregnant school teacher found in her charred duplex as a murder after concluding she died before the blaze consumed her home.

Alternative Energy Holdings Inc.'s proposed nuclear facility planned for construction on Idaho's Snake River has met with local opposition, though Elmore County Commissioners are now attempting to change their county zoning laws to enable the plant's construction.. The latest proposal from Alternative Energy Holdings Inc.

The Idaho attorney general said the city of Lewiston has been using inmate labor in violation of public works contractor laws and wants the practice stopped.

Idaho pollster Greg Smith today released results of a new poll, conducted June 15-18 of 400 randomly selected Idahoans 18 or older, and found that U.S. Sens.