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Rod Beck was elected in November 2020 to the Ada County Commissioners, after stints as an Idaho legislator, serving as Senate majority leader, and as a Republican party official. With the election of Ryan Davidson as well, that led to ...

A bill to provide undocumented Idahoans with a legal way to drive has been held in a Senate committee, though the Legislature may form an interim committee to study it. The bill, Senate Bill 1132, was brought by Sen. Jim ...

Our new president and the Democratic-led Congress are seeking to bail out big, poorly-managed states and punish states that have operated responsibly during the pandemic — a step that would saddle Idaho children with even greater debt and suppress economic ...

Sandy Anderson was promoted to director of sales at the Boise Metro Chamber after being an account manager since February of 2019. She is a marketing professional with over 25 years’ experience in sales and marketing management, new business development, ...

The intersection of 17th Street and Woodruff Avenue in Idaho Falls is the worst in Bonneville County, though not for much longer. Its redesign is scheduled for 2022. The Idaho Falls City Council voted on Feb. 25 to exercise its ...

Once again, Boise has broken another housing record. This time, it is rent increases. Rents in Boise increased 1.8% month-over-month for February. Rents were up by 13.5% year-over-year, making Boise the city with the largest rent increase among the nation’s 100 ...

First in a series. “Our river is gone, for the time at least, but we would really like to save our lake. Will you help?” wrote the Coeur d’Alene River and Lake Commission in 1931. The river referred to was ...

Idaho’s colleges and universities are consistently rated among the best public postsecondary schools in the nation. Unfortunately, there is now an effort to weaken our higher education institutions by cutting their funding. If this effort succeeds, it will be more ...

The subject of today’s analysis is a press release with the title: “The Worst Rush Hours in the U.S. Ranked.” What made this one interesting was the result that middling-sized Boise was No. 1 for the worst rush-hour traffic. Long-term ...

IDACORP Inc. has announced the appointment of Dr. Mark Peters to serve on the board of directors of IDACORP and Idaho Power. He is the executive vice president for laboratory operations at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. From 2015 ...