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State officials say bridges designed to last up to 60 years will have to hold out twice that long without an increase in transportation funding. That’s what Idaho Transportation Director Brian Ness told lawmakers Thursday, saying his agency only has ...

The College of Southern Idaho has been awarded a $4.4 million federal grant to build a new training and support center dedicated to the region’s growing green energy industry. The grant awarded Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce will ...

Idaho Health and Welfare Director Dick Armstrong says the best remaining option for his agency to get control of rising Medicaid costs and demand is to cut programs that aren’t essential, required by federal rules or in some cases are ...

A tax break for producers of alternative energy that’s up for renewal this year will face opposition from a group that says residents near wind farms aren’t being treated fairly. Idahoans for Responsible Wind Energy want lawmakers to make sure ...

Idaho tax revenue in December missed forecasts for the first time in months, potentially complicating Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s effort to craft a budget for the coming year if the trend continues. Still, Otter’s budget director, Wayne Hammon, said Wednesday ...

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed Tamarack Resort’s bankruptcy case from federal Chapter 11 protection, sending it back to state court where foreclosure proceedings may eventually proceed to a sheriff’s sale. An Idaho investment group, Green Valley Holdings, that last ...

Idaho plans to sell millions in bonds to repay the federal government for money the state has borrowed to shore up unemployment benefit payments amid the worst recession since the Great Depression. Idaho owes about $200 million to cover loans ...

A federal judge has ruled in favor of an environmental group seeking to reverse the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to renew four grazing permits involving 48,000 acres in the Pahsimeroi River Watershed in central Idaho. U.S. District Judge Edward ...

Idaho lawmakers are getting ready to begin the first day of what could be one of the most challenging legislative sessions in recent history. The 2011 Legislature opens today featuring Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s State of the State Address. Otter ...

Idaho Tax Commission Chairman Royce Chigbrow resigned Friday after employees at the agency said he intervened in tax cases involving clients of his son’s accounting firm as well as for a friend and political supporter. Chigbrow told Gov. C.L. “Butch” ...