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A bill that aims to punish illegal immigrants by upping penalties for the use of false documents has cleared a Senate committee. The Senate State Affairs Committee voted 6-1 March 12 to approve a bill that would make it a ...

A House committee voted narrowly to consider a bill that would let Idaho officials participate in talks with two dozen other states about collecting sales taxes on Internet purchases. The House Revenue and Taxation Committee agreed on a 10-8 vote ...

An Idaho Panhandle construction worker has been placed on five years supervised probation for defrauding the state unemployment insurance program of over $16,000 in benefits. Fred J. Kudrna III, 35, of Hayden, was ordered to pay back the benefits plus ...

A Senate committee voted unanimously to support a measure that would allow county commissioners anywhere in Idaho to offer property tax exemptions to businesses that invest at least $3 million in new manufacturing facilities. The Senate Local Government and Taxation ...

A Senate committee rejected a bill that would penalize employers who don’t use a federal computer database to verify workers’ immigration status and who end up hiring illegal immigrants. After three hours of debate, mostly tilted against the measure, the ...

State Republicans lobbed more legislative spitballs at Washington, D.C., earlier this week, with measures calling to sue the federal government over gun rights and control of federal land and to replace standard American currency with gold and silver. The bills ...

As Idaho’s legislature plows through proposed legislation, trying to avoid a repeat of the record-length session of 2009, time is becoming scarce for new bills to be introduced. Two bills falling victim to time constraints were being pushed by the ...

A House committee voted to approve a bill that would restrict the powers of local governments to create special taxing districts to pay for infrastructure several weeks after sponsors withdrew a stricter version of the legislation because of an outcry ...

The Idaho Department of Finance has filed a civil complaint in Fourth District Court in Boise against Idaho insurance agent Jerry Ward and his business, Med-Life, which operates from various locations in the state, including southwestern and northern Idaho. The ...

As many as 22 Idaho Transportation Department employees were disciplined by the agency for improperly using state equipment, with two losing their jobs. Rep. JoAn Wood, the Rigby Republican who heads the House Transportation Committee, said Tuesday that agency director ...