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Governor Butch Otter was back in town again Thursday. Among his stops was a visit to the Lewiston City Library.

It's being called a breakthrough in relations between the Nez Perce Tribe and State of Idaho.

A new gaming compact between the state and leaders of the Nez Perce Tribe should clear the return of the Idaho Lottery games to more than a dozen northern communities.

State officials are reporting a rosy end to fiscal year 2008, despite a slowdown in sales tax collections and revenue projections that fell short of expectations.

Idaho Rep. Bert Brackett has been chosen to fill the Idaho Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen.

Rocky Mountain Right has posted a video from last night's Bill O'Reilly Show that demonstrates Colorado Governor Bill Ritter isn't ready for primetime: Bill Ritter recently was approached by a Fox News reporter ...

This is a rush transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," July 7, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

They may not know anything about equalization formulas or funding public medicine, but when it comes to energy, water and wildlife, the western U.S. governors share many of the same issues as Alberta and the ...

State Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser lashed out at Gov. Chris Gregoire on Monday over her role in the failed recruitment of the Areva uranium enrichment plant.

BOISE V Idaho's Senate tax chairman is calling on Gov. Butch Otter to launch an independent investigation of allegations raised in a whistle-blower's report charging that the state tax commission cut secret ...

The Western Governors' Association annual meeting is being held in Jackson, Wyoming, this week.

Governor Otter made a big announcement on Tuesday about the Snake River Aquifer, a clean up project.

Idaho could become the first Western state in the nation to require boaters to register their non-motorized crafts, such as canoes and kayaks.

A funeral service was held this morning in Buhl for State Senator Tom Gannon. Gannon represented district twenty-three in the state legislature, which covers western Twin Falls County and Owyhee County.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Report: Cows, cars pump up Idaho's carbon footprint A new report ordered by Idaho Gov.

We are advised to think seriously about cow farts. It's not just cars and trucks which produce greenhouse gases, according to a report commissioned by Idaho Gov.

Idaho's wobbly tax revenue stream will likely be enough for state government to avoid a budget crisis in the fiscal year that ends June 30.

The national Republican party is staggering under the weight of a president as unpopular as Nixon at the height of Watergate, fundraising woes, a near-record number of members of Congress under some kind of ...

Legislators and state officials from both parties are launching formal reviews of a whistleblower's allegations that the Idaho State Tax Commission cut secret deals to excuse multistate corporations from paying ...

The Idaho State Tax Commission is still preparing its response to an auditor's complaint in May that the agency has improperly cut companies secret deals on their taxes.