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A proposal to overhaul the federal process for permits to construct energy projects passed a procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Monday, though several Democratic supporters said the legislation needed more work. The Senate voted, 73-25, to advance what’s known as the permitting reform bill, despite opposition…
A North Idaho county on Tuesday will recount all ballots cast after local election officials didn’t report votes from 2,342 ballots, the state’s election agency announced Monday. In Latah County, home to Moscow, the ballots — representing a portion of early voting before Election Day — were tabulated on the county’s…
Federal officials on Monday announced $10 billion in awards across all 50 states in the second year of the Rural Health Transformation Fund, grants created by Congress to bolster rural health in response to concerns about Medicaid cuts. Texas received the largest grant for the 2027 fiscal year — almost $282 million —…
Editor’s Note: This story was updated at 2:45 p.m. Nov. 9 to add a comment from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Federal authorities said on Monday Idaho will receive about $182.7 million in the second year of a grant designed to improve rural healthcare, marking a reduction from Idaho’s first-year award…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday his mass deportation campaign, which helped propel his return to the Oval Office, had gone too far and potentially led to Republicans losing the U.S. House and Senate in the midterm elections. “I think it might be too tough, yeah,” Trump said…
In Idaho, a Republican stronghold, the closest Democrat in this year’s election to securing a seat in Congress or statewide office was 11 points behind. The candidate, Ellie Gilbreath, was trying to stop Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson’s bid for reelection to a 15th term. Across the country last week, Democrats…
Members of the Idaho Legislature’s joint budget committee are meeting in Moscow and Lewiston for three days this week as they gear up for the 2027 legislative session. Although the Idaho Legislature is not in session, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, or JFAC, normally conducts a spring and fall tour at…
The age of the typical first-time homebuyer last year remained stuck at a historic high of 40 years old as younger people continue to get the worst of brutally high prices and interest rates in much of the country. That’s according to new data from the National Association of Realtors, and it’s the second year
WASHINGTON — Voters may have given Democrats control of Congress in the midterm elections, but Republicans will remain in charge of both chambers during the lame-duck session that spans November and December. The relatively brief five-week schedule, which begins Monday, gives GOP leaders a chance to wrap up unfinished…
In Idaho, more than a third of votes in Tuesday’s election were cast before Election Day. Over 290,000 of the more than 731,000 ballots cast in the election were through early and absentee voting, according to data from the Idaho secretary of state’s office. That’s 100,000 more of those types of voting than were…
In the “blue wave” that washed over the country this week, liberals in Montana notched both an historic win and a conspicuous loss. Montanans will send Democrat Sam Forstag to Congress, and supporters of his victory in the western district danced at the Florence building in Missoula in the wee hours Wednesday. It’s…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday he will elevate Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff, the first shake-up of his administration officials since Democrats trounced Republicans in the midterms. Former Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will move to the “Trump Political Operation,” the president…
SEATTLE — Grocery giant Albertsons must pay Washington state $900 million for its pharmacies’ role in fueling the opioid epidemic, a judge ruled Thursday. Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said this is believed to be the largest verdict in state history. It came after a 9-week trial before King County Superior…
The failure of Idaho’s proposed abortion rights initiative Proposition 1 in Tuesday’s general election was met with celebration and concern as the state’s abortion ban remains fully in place. Idaho voters rejected the ballot measure with 55.94% of the vote, according to the unofficial statewide results. Election…
This story was first published by WyoFile on Oct. 30, 2026. With weeks left to go before many grizzly bears den up, it’s already the bruins’ deadliest year in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in modern times, surpassing records set in 2024 and 2025. Historically, regional grizzly bear death counts have been higher…
A Washington D.C. Superior Court judge has ordered the Idaho National Guard to produce documents related to an incident in May in which guards members detained a woman outside her home. D.C. resident Anna King filed a separate $3 million claim against the Idaho National Guard in July for injuries and distress she said…
The blue wave that swept across Tuesday’s midterm election will deliver Democrats new power over state government, giving them the opportunity to advance long-sought policy changes. Democrats flipped hundreds of seats, won control of several GOP-held chambers, broke veto-proof supermajorities and won a majority of…
Alabama Republicans had hoped Rep. Shomari Figures would deliver a concession speech on Tuesday night after the state legislature redrew his district to be more GOP-friendly. Instead, the Democrat declared victory — winning nearly 54% of the vote. “We know what happened with this district,” Figures told supporters as…
In Idaho’s general election on Tuesday, some voters were voting hours after polls had closed in the state’s second most populated county. Voting bled into Wednesday. The last voter in Canyon County cast their ballot at 12:20 a.m., Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane said in an interview Wednesday morning. In Idaho…
Nationwide results for abortion ballot initiatives on Tuesday night largely favored protecting access to abortion and other reproductive care, with the exception of Idaho, where a measure that would have restored access to abortion was soundly defeated. Idaho’s outcome stood in stark contrast to the other three ballot…
Gov. Brad Little proudly announced in July that the Idaho National Laboratory had been selected by the Trump administration as one of five finalists for designation as a Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus. We were told that if the state was picked as one of the three NLICs, there would be massive financial investment…
In a non-binding vote, Idaho voters nominated a lever-action rifle, dubbed the “Gun that Won the West” to be the state’s official gun. The gun, the Winchester Model 1873, had the backing from about 31% of Idaho voters, the highest share of any of the guns on the ballot in Tuesday’s general election, according to
The fingerpointing is coming from inside the house. Vice President JD Vance said in a lengthy social media post Wednesday that Republicans’ shellacking in the midterm elections the night before was mainly due to the administration’s war in Iran. Though Vance sought to soften the blow to President Donald Trump by…
WASHINGTON — Voting ended Tuesday in this year’s midterm elections, leaving officials and volunteers counting tens of millions of ballots to determine which U.S. House and Senate candidates will take the oath of office in January. The post-election process includes numerous steps and varying deadlines for when ballots…
After months of campaigning, polling and prognostication, voters across the country had their say in the 2026 midterm elections on Tuesday. And despite fears about possible trouble at polling places, millions of votes were cast, mostly without incident. Voters administered a sharp reprimand to President Donald Trump…
Democrats have won the majority of governor’s offices for the first time in 16 years after the GOP racked up major losses across the country. Democrats flipped governorships in Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Texas and defended competitive races in Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin, according to unofficial results from…
Correction: This story was corrected at 1:50 p.m. Wednesday to reflect that Democrats picked up one state Senate seat, and five state House seats. As the nation experienced a blue wave in congressional midterm elections across the country, Democrats in Idaho picked up six more seats in the state Legislature. The gains…
Idaho voters rejected Proposition 1, the ballot initiative that sought to legalize abortion in the state up to fetal viability or in emergencies, and would have enumerated rights to other types of reproductive healthcare. The Associated Press called the race at 12:35 a.m. Wednesday. The voter-led ballot initiative…
WASHINGTON — Democrats will regain control of the U.S. House early next year, after voters throughout the country rejected the policies that Republicans and President Donald Trump implemented during the last two years. The Associated Press, which States Newsroom looks to for the projected winner of congressional…
Correction: This story was corrected at 12:15 p.m., Nov. 4 to correctly reflect U.S. Sen Jim Risch’s age. He is 83. Incumbent Republican Idaho U.S. Sen. Jim Risch won reelection Tuesday. The Associated Press called the race for Risch at 11:31 p.m. Risch had 56.75%, or 368,072 ballots cast in his favor, as of 2:50
Idaho voters rejected a proposed amendment to the Idaho Constitution that would have taken away Idahoans’ rights to legalize marijuana or other drugs, according to the Associated Press. The Associated Press called the race at 10:39 p.m. Mountain time Tuesday. House Joint Resolution 4, or HJR4, would have made it so…
Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little was reelected in Tuesday’s general election and will serve a third term as the Gem State’s governor, according to the Associated Press. All other Republican candidates for statewide office were also reelected. The Associated Press called the race for Little at 10:36 p.m. Tuesday…
Voters across the country administered a sharp reprimand to President Donald Trump and Republicans who hold majorities in Congress, with Democrats gaining comfortable majorities in the Senate and the House. Several U.S. Senate and House races remained uncalled by The Associated Press as Election Day ended on the East…
Idaho voters widely approved amending the Idaho Constitution to declare English as the state’s official language. The Associated Press declared at 10:32 p.m. Wednesday that the amendment, which was proposed by the Idaho Legislature last year, passed. The amendment received support from 58.86% of Idaho voters, with…
Georgia voters elected the nation’s first Black woman governor on Tuesday while neighbors to the south in Florida became the first to elect a Black Republican governor. Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the first Democrat to occupy Georgia’s top office in more than two decades. In Florida, Republican…
WASHINGTON — In a stunning upset, Democrats ousted Republicans and flipped control of the U.S. Senate Tuesday night, effectively establishing a barricade for President Donald Trump’s agenda for the last two years of his term. Democrats will now have the power to block many of Trump’s nominees, both executive and…
1:55 a.m. Mountain time: Longtime Idaho Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson is reelected to a 15th, two-year term representing Idaho’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House. The Associated Press called the race for him at 1:49 a.m. Wednesday. Early, unofficial election results showed that Simpson had 51% of the…
Here’s what you need to know this Election Day in Idaho. Even though the president isn’t on the ballot this year, it’s still a big election year for the state. All statewide offices — such as the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state superintendent, state controller and state treasurer — are up for…
Idahoans are encouraged to participate in a two-day event this week that honors the environmental and political legacy of Cecil Andrus, Idaho’s longest-serving governor. The Andrus for Idaho: History Harvest event, hosted by the Boise State University Andrus Center, includes several panel discussions and presentations…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, mere hours before Election Day in the midterms that will determine control of Congress, denied the Trump administration’s final attempt to force California to set aside the ballots of 20,000 people it suspects are noncitizens. The decision marked a significant blow to President Donald…
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to require California to set aside the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters in a last-ditch appeal by the Trump administration to exert control over the state’s vote counting. The request came on the eve of Election Day and as more than 5 million…
Experienced conservationist and policy leader Courtney Washburn has been named the new executive director of the Idaho Conservation League, the league and its board of directors announced last month. Washburn succeeds previous Executive Director Justin Hayes, who announced last year he was taking a new position at the…
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon have struck a deal over Clean Water Act enforcement in America’s first national park. But what led up to the deal unfolded largely out of public view. A new era of “concurrent jurisdiction” where Wyoming takes the lead in Yellowstone National Park was…
Medicaid recipients who are disabled or have a chronic illness will not have to prove they are unable to work to be exempted from new work requirements that take effect next year, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston grants a partial victory to the 25…
Idaho has periodically faced serious threats to its water sovereignty from an overreaching federal government. In the early 1950s, when Len Jordan was Idaho governor, the feds wanted to build a massive dam on the Snake River in Hells Canyon. That would have usurped Idaho control of its upstream waters. Jordan stopped…
This story was first published by Boise State Public Radio on Oct. 30, 2026. A Canyon County judge has rejected a request by anti-Proposition 1 campaigners to halt TV ads from airing that promote the ballot measure days before the election. In an opinion released late Friday night, Judge Davis VanderVelde found the…
Update: This story was updated at 5:10 p.m. on Oct. 30 with a comment from the plaintiff, Dr. Stacy Seyb. A federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday that Idaho’s abortion ban may continue to be fully enforced, including against a Boise doctor who challenged the ban’s lack of health exemption. A U.S. Court of Appeals
Independent candidate for U.S. Senate Todd Achilles has collected more than $1.8 in his campaign against incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Risch — the most of any federal election challenger in recent years. Risch’s campaign has collected a total of around $4.1 million since the beginning of 2025, according to the…
Seven western states, including Oregon, have lost more than one-third of their glacial cover since 1950 and more than 300 glaciers in those states have disappeared entirely as the earth has rapidly warmed, a first-of-its-kind inventory and analysis confirms. Researchers at Portland State University and the U.S…
Bird flu is hitting Washington dairy farms, and it’s spreading fast. The Washington State Department of Agriculture confirmed the first detections in two Yakima County dairy herds in early October. On Oct. 26, the agency reported the highly pathogenic avian influenza in Benton County. In the span of three weeks, 27…
WASHINGTON — As of early Friday, more than 46 million Americans had cast ballots ahead of Election Day, eclipsing the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. In the 2022 midterm elections, 45.9 million Americans voted early, according to the UF Election Lab…
Idaho County commissioners are asking the state’s governor and other elected officials to change public land classifications within their county, Commissioner Skip Brandt told state legislators Thursday. Brandt detailed his proposal during the Idaho Legislature’s Committee on Federalism’s meeting Thursday, which took…
In the weeks leading up to the 2026 midterm elections, the Trump administration announced it is prosecuting three alleged noncitizen voting cases in Idaho. The cases appear to be the first instances of the federal government prosecuting noncitizen voting cases in Idaho under the second Trump administration. They came…
Costs are soaring for people who care for their older parents and other family members, according to a new study. Out-of-pocket expenses are nearly 60% higher than they were just five years ago for family caregivers, who now spend an average of $11,508 a year on caregiving, according to a report released this week by
Throughout history there has been one thing all Idahoans agreed on — water is the lifeblood of Idaho. Water has made our southern Idaho sagebrush country bloom with farms and ranches, and water has been crucial for the protection of our wildlife and our outdoor way of life. Protecting Idaho’s water rights from outside…
It took two years for Chrissy Teigen to realize she’d had an abortion and not a miscarriage, longer to understand what went wrong in her pregnancy, and not until this week to realize she hadn’t fully grappled with it emotionally. Teigen, a former model and business owner, came to Idaho on Wednesday to make a
New felony charges against Kalshi and a new federal lawsuit against Utah joined the litigation maze between the prediction market platform and the state this week. Kalshi and its co-founders, Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, are now facing 12 online gambling promotion felony charges, one count of pattern of…
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a U.S. Department of Justice request that would have forced California to not count the ballots of 20,000 voters the Trump administration alleges are likely noncitizens. The decision sets the case on a course to possibly reach the U.S. Supreme Court within days. In a scathing…
Across Idaho, in-person early voting ends at 5 p.m. local time Friday. Check with your local county clerk’s office for a list of early voting locations near you. Ada County, Idaho’s largest, has more than a half dozen spots. If you miss early voting, the last chance to vote in Idaho’s general election will be
The Trump administration is sending election monitors to Idaho’s largest county on Election Day next week, the state’s top election official confirmed Wednesday. The decision comes as the Justice Department plans to deploy 1,000 election monitors — who the DOJ says are meant to assess local compliance with federal…
The Idaho Supreme Court ruled in a 3-2 decision Wednesday that a legal challenge to Idaho’s new state public defense system may be dismissed. The ruling upheld a lower court’s dismissal of the case. The majority’s decision found there wasn’t enough evidence to demonstrate the statewide system, which began operations…
MERIDIAN, Idaho — It didn’t take long for doctors to see that something was amiss with Rebecca Crozier’s pregnancy. At her eight-week ultrasound in 2025, they mentioned a possible neural tube defect, she said, but after some research, she thought it was something that could be managed or treated. “If it was a fixable…
Most of the nation returns to standard time Sunday morning, and Congress could decide as early as next month whether it will be the last time people have to change their clocks. President Donald Trump wants year-round daylight saving time. The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly in July for the change. Lots of Democrats…
Less than a week before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s unprecedented drive for power over elections has set the stage for a series of courtroom fights that could quickly lead to a high-stakes showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over the limits of federal authority. Democrats and voting rights advocates have…
Correction: This story was corrected at 12:15 p.m. Oct. 28 to reflect that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid announcement Wednesday reflected that Idaho had spent its entire $186 million first-year grant and did not announce second-year funding. The agency has not yet decided on second-year grant amounts…
The federal government has filed a lawsuit against the state of Idaho, seeking to block the state from curtailing water use at Idaho National Laboratory and from administering federal water rights, court records indicate. On Sept. 11, the U.S. government filed a lawsuit against the state, the Idaho Department of Water…
How competitive is the race to represent Idaho in the U.S. Senate? It depends which poll you look at. According to a poll released last week by the campaign for Todd Achilles, an independent running for U.S. Senate, Republican incumbent Jim Risch has only a six-point lead over Achilles. Eight percent of voters were…
In the first three years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in June 2022, more than 900 women faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnancies, according to a new report. Most state laws that prohibit or regulate abortion seek to penalize those who provide…
Idaho health officials on Tuesday reported the state’s second flu death in the 2026-27 influenza season. The death was of a resident of Elmore County, a rural area outside Boise, who was in their 80s, the regional health agency, Central District Health, announced. The first death, reported last week, was of an Owyhee…
WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of Americans have already made their way to the ballot box as early voting is underway in a midterm election that will determine control of the House and the Senate, possibly flipping one or both from Republicans to Democrats. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 34 million people have…
Nine months after immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in south Minneapolis, Pretti’s parents are publicly calling on the U.S. Justice Department to release information and evidence related to Pretti’s killing. “We are here today begging for the Department of Justice to do what is right — to hold the men who…
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to send election monitors to every state ahead of Election Day, expanding a long-standing practice that’s spurred concern this year among Democrats and voting rights advocates because of President Donald Trump’s push to influence elections. The Justice Department for decades has…
Americans’ growing frustration over high prices has defined many political campaigns ahead of November’s midterm elections. Rising costs of healthcare, gas and groceries during President Donald Trump’s second term have put Republicans on defense, not only in Washington, but in statehouse and gubernatorial races across…
SPRINGDALE, Pa. — Residents in a small southwestern Pennsylvania town are facing the prospect of a 47-acre data center facility on their doorstep. “Right here behind this fence is where they want to put up the data center, and as you can see, there’s houses right across the street, roughly 100 feet,” said lifelong…
Opponents of the proposed abortion rights initiative Proposition 1 filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to pull TV ads paid for by the Idaho Democratic Party in favor of the initiative. The conservative, Christian advocacy organization, the Idaho Family Policy Center, and leaders with a political action committee that…
Chrissy Teigen will be in Boise on Wednesday to campaign in favor of Proposition 1, which would repeal Idaho’s strict abortion ban laws and provide protections for the procedure. Proposition 1, also called the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, also provides protections for access to birth control, in vitro…
President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour campaign to intervene in California’s vote counting encountered its first resistance from federal courts on Monday, with appellate judges ruling against the effort. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against a U.S. Department of Justice request for a…
This story was 0riginally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Oct. 21, 2026. The next time you come across an op-ed by an Idaho politician, think twice about the source. It may not be human. Op-eds and other online posts from some of Idaho’s most powerful elected officials contain heavy doses of artificial intelligence…
The percentage of working-age adults without health insurance has increased in the past two years, largely because many people can no longer afford Obamacare coverage after Congress allowed federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year. The uninsured rate for adults ages 19-64 rose to 11.2% this year, up from…
This year’s statewide ballot measures are written, on average, at a graduate-school reading level, according to a new report. The readability of 2026’s ballot questions — which ask voters to weigh in on issues as varied as abortion, property taxes, voter ID and firearms — varies by state, political data tracking…
It’s unclear what role federal election monitors will play or how many there will be in King County on Election Day. The U.S. Department of Justice informed King County Elections Director Julie Wise this week that the administration is sending election monitors for the Nov. 3 midterms. “As the Civil Rights Division…
Idaho lawmakers will weigh whether to fund several drug-prevention and treatment projects, totaling over $3 million, through the state’s endowment fund from tobacco lawsuit settlement money. The legislative Joint Millennium Fund Committee, which oversees the endowment, heard 10 proposals Friday for use of the…
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare said an Owyhee County man has died after influenza-related illness — the first flu death of the season in the state. The man was older than 65, but an exact age was not given in a press release issued by the department. Public health officials said in the
The U.S. Department of Justice is stepping up its legal campaign over the midterm elections, suing Alaska over its U.S. Senate election and appealing a lawsuit against suspected noncitizen voters in California. Election law experts have cast doubt on the strength of the cases, criticizing them as performative. The…
Federal regulators are cracking down on the nonprofits responsible for coordinating organ donations, aiming to begin shutting down substandard groups by early next year. New criteria will score the organizations on donation and transplantation rates and will decertify the bottom tier, meaning their contracts with the…
The Oklahoma-based company that owns one of the largest gas pipeline networks in the Northwest is beginning to pursue permits to expand that network, and to pump more gas to the region to meet rising electricity demand. Pipeline company Williams, owner of the 4,000-mile long Northwest Pipeline system that brings…
A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats. Across the 46 states with legislative seats on the ballot, a total of 3,824 women are running — up from 2022’s previous record of 3,621 women candidates, according to the Center for American…
The U.S. Department of Justice is sending election monitors to Utah polls to oversee the Nov. 3 elections, Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson learned on Wednesday. The move comes amid pressure from the agency as Henderson, Utah’s chief election officer, refuses to release private voter data to the federal government. The…
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime personal attorney and accountant in federal court, alleging that the two helped to facilitate and conceal his sex trafficking operation. The lawsuit against Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, the…
WASHINGTON — The price health insurance companies charge for employer-sponsored plans increased again this year, as did the deductible many people must pay before those plans begin covering most healthcare costs, according to a survey released Thursday by the nonpartisan health organization KFF. The cost of individual…
A federal judge on Wednesday night blocked the Department of Homeland Security from conducting election-related field operations that could sweep up U.S. citizens in nine states. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, an appointee of President Joe Biden in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, issued a…
The director of Idaho’s largest state agency will step down by the end of the year. Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Juliet Charron told employees in a letter she’d be stepping back to provide more support to her family, Boise State Public Radio first reported. Gov. Brad Little’s communication director…
During the 2026 election cycle, Idaho voters have had very few opportunities to see Republican incumbents answer questions at live, public events. For years it was the norm for major candidates in statewide and federal races to appear live and debate each other. “It was a tradition in Idaho,” said Betsy Russell…
HYANNIS, Neb. — With 19 days until Election Day, Dan Osborn sat across from three skeptical voters in a conference room in this blink-and-you-miss-it rural Nebraska town. Osborn, a bearded former union leader and Navy veteran, wants to become the first independent U.S. senator from Nebraska since World War II by…
Single-family home completions remain stuck at early pandemic levels as of September as costs, labor supply shortages and high interest take a toll on home builders, especially in the Northeast and South. Apartment building was a more mixed picture, down nationally but up sharply in the Midwest (53%) and West (18%)…
JEROME – More than $5 million worth restoration projects and forthcoming interpretive exhibits are being designed to preserve the history and lessons from southern Idaho’s Minidoka National Historic Site. On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, joined National Park Service personnel, local elected officials and…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to implement a rule that would terminate gender-affirming care for transgender people incarcerated in federal prisons. It means a lower court order that blocked the policy from going into effect will remain in place for…
Correction: This story was corrected at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday to reflect that Philip Morris USA and PMI companies are separately owned. Republican Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and Gov. Brad Little’s re-election campaigns received more than $20,000 each in donations from tobacco and nicotine manufacturers. In…
The deadline for Idaho voters to request an absentee ballot for this year’s general election is 5 p.m. local time on Friday, Oct. 23. Friday, Oct. 23 is also the deadline to register to vote in advance of the Nov. 3 general election. However, if eligible voters miss the Oct. 23 deadline to register to
In July, the U.S. Department of Energy named Idaho as a finalist to host one of three Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. As former legal counsel for Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and administrator of the Idaho Governor’s Office of Species, Minerals, and Energy Coordination, I’ve spent years working on nuclear policy. I…