Idaho News

Parma Mayor Margaret Watson says supporters of the Parma Research and Extension Center in southwest Idaho are confident they have come up with a plan to keep the center open through June 30.

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Tuesday Governor Butch Otter signed a proclamation making November Adoption Awareness Month in Idaho.

Today Idaho First Bank reported financial results for the third quarter of 2009.

A federal judge says prosecutors failed to prove allegations that a southern Idaho feedlot manager discharged fluids into the aquifer that were contaminated with manure and bacteria.

Sixty-four hives tipped onto the asphalt at the junction of Idaho Highway 81 and Idaho Highway 24 in Burley when one of the cargo straps holding them onto a truck snapped.

Roger Lanier says the department is ramping up its stance against drunken driving, directing officers to forcibly take blood samples in some cases when suspected drunken drivers refuse breath tests.

Idaho hopes to win $75 million or more in competitive federal grants for public schools, money that officials say could be the state's only opportunity to boost funding for education in the next few years.

The CDC announced their newest findings on diabetes and the results may be startling to some.

According to a new report from Idaho Health and Welfare 26 new cases of Swine Flu confirmed in the past week.

C.L. ``Butch'' Otter slammed the former Idaho Transportation Department director who is suing the state on whistleblower and gender discrimination claims, calling her ineffective and saying he lost faith in her before she was fired.

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has extended wolf hunting seasons in all Idaho wolf zones not already closed to March 31.

Two months before the 2010 Idaho Legislature convenes, the session's bitter tenor is set: Public education funding is due to be slashed again and state agencies now scraping to get by could be eliminated to help cover a remaining $52 million budget shortfall.

It's called Steakhouse Hill for a reason. A stretch of U.S. Highway 95 on Moscow Mountain is a frequent crossing zone for moose, and that's resulted in numerous motorist injuries and animal fatalities.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday closed the Dworshak-Elk City zone after hunters reached the quota of 18 wolves for the area.

Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter is keeping things interesting regarding the Idaho wilderness.

Premature birth rates in the Pacific Northwest are among the lowest in the nation, but the March of Dimes says that only earns Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska C's on the organization's premature birth report card.

The Idaho Transportation Department's former chief has added claims to her lawsuit against the agency, including that she was fired illegally and without due process.

Since receiving Gov. Butch Otter's memo last week urging state agencies to look more closely for ways to cut budgets, Tom Shanahan with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, says the agency will look again at professional membership dues which have already been cut from last year's $45,000. "We've reduced it by half to some $24,000," he said.

CNN host Lou Dobbs says he is leaving CNN effective immediately. The longtime host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" says Wednesday on his show that it would be his last.