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The president of North Idaho College has asked billionaire Warren Buffett if the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway would consider donating a piece of land it owns to the college. The Coeur d’Alene Press reports Priscilla Bell wrote to Buffett ...

No online learning system can perform as well as a real real person, teachers from around Idaho told lawmakers Jan. 21 at a public hearing. An overflow crowd made of up parents, educators and many others filled several hearing rooms in ...

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 State University’s General Education Department will receive $1.2 million from the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation to encourage GED test-takers to continue their education at ISU. ISU is one of six Idaho colleges that received grant funding to encourage ...

Concordia University officials say the library at their new law school complex in Boise will be named after an Idaho businessman who donated $1 million toward the project. The Portland-based university announced the gift from George White and his wife, ...

Most school districts in Idaho have discussed changing to a four-day week as one way to handle expected budget cuts in the coming year. Officials say they won’t make any decisions about such a move until after they see what ...

The community of Horseshoe Bend received an unexpected gift this year: $100,000 worth of donated steel for a new professional/technical building at the local school. Rob Roberts, who owns R&M Steel in Caldwell, had originally planned to submit a bid ...

Idaho is the only state in the Lower 48 without a Small Business Administration center just for women. State non-profits missed their chance for a $150,000 grant this summer when the SBA put out a request for proposals to start ...

A teacher from Rigby in eastern Idaho has been named the state’s 2011 Idaho Teacher of the Year. Stefani S. Cook is a business education teacher at Rigby High School. Public schools chief Tom Luna announced her selection Nov. 29. ...

Whether it’s tennis balls, a T-bone steak, or a place to live, chances are you’ll find it for less in Idaho. A new cost-of-living calculator assembled by economists at Boise State University makes it simple to calculate the financial costs ...