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Idaho lawmakers set the tone early in the session with a variety of ideas on how to address rising property values and taxes.

Idaho lawmakers set the tone early in the session with a variety of ideas on how to address rising property values and taxes.

Gov. Brad Little will unveil his proposals for education, the state budget, taxes and addressing Idaho’s projected record $1.6 billion surplus during his State of the State address Monday at the Idaho State Capitol.  Monday’s 1 p.m. speech is expected to be a return to a more traditional State of the State address compared to […]

BOISE (Idaho Statesman) – One student was injured after being stabbed in the leg with a knife at Crossroads Middle School in Meridian on Monday, and the suspect — another student — has been charged with two crimes. Police responded to the school at noontime, and the students had been separated by the time officers […]

NAMPA — Kirsten Lucas considers herself a “political refugee.” A transplant from California’s Simi Valley, she moved to Idaho in 2018 to escape what California had become.

BOISE (Idaho Capital Sun) — The Idaho Legislature will reconvene Nov. 15 to address President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 rules for employers and consider an ethics complaint against Rep. Priscilla Giddings, Speaker of the House Scott Bedke said Monday. Reps. Greg Chaney, R-Caldwell, Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, and Caroline Nilsson Troy, R-Genesee, also confirmed the Nov. […]

BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — With the governor out of the state, Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin issued a new executive order on “vaccine passports” on Tuesday, continuing a pattern of issuing pandemic-related orders. Gov. Brad Little has already said he will reverse it. McGeachin announced the order on social media, declaring that all state agencies, including […]

Idaho Gov. Brad Little left the state on Tuesday, and Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin took full advantage of that fact. With Little in Texas meeting with other Republican governors...

Rep. Greg Chaney's 74-year-old mother, who was unvaccinated, died after spending three days in the ICU.

August 3, 2021 Share An Idaho state lawmaker refused to answer questions she deemed “irrelevant” during a hearing Monday to determine whether she violated ethics rules by publicizing in disparaging social media posts the name of a woman who accused another lawmaker of rape. The lawmaker also argued that the young Statehouse intern who said she was raped wasn’t actually a victim or entitled to privacy under the law. Republican Rep. Priscilla Giddings became the subject of two ethic...