Idaho’s potato industry received a significant boost this month when the U.S. House passed a fiscal year 2027 agriculture spending bill that includes $5 million for a potato research facility in Aberdeen, Idaho — funding secured by Rep. Mike Simpson through the Community Project Funding process. The money is directed to the USDA Agricultural Research […]
Bannock County Coroner Torey Danner pushed back this week against a legal challenge from a local funeral home, saying that cremation authorizations were withheld not out of delay or negligence, but because the funeral home failed to submit required identification paperwork. Cornelison Funeral Home filed an Emergency Consolidated Petition for Writ of Mandamus against Danner, […]
Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to a $17.1 billion multistate settlement over allegations that it deliberately designed its platforms to addict minors, with Idaho set to receive between $89.2 million and $127.7 million from the deal. The settlement, announced Wednesday, involves 47 states and the District of Columbia. Payments will be distributed […]
Oklahoma voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment to enshrine voter identification requirements in state law while decisively rejecting a separate measure that would have reshaped how the state reimburses counties for manufacturing tax exemptions. Voter ID Amendment Passes Comfortably State Question 846, which adds voter ID requirements to the Oklahoma Constitution, passed with more […]
Idaho education officials have launched a review of the state’s public school funding formula, kicking off what could be the most significant restructuring effort since the current framework took shape in 1994 — a span of more than 32 years without meaningful updates. Work on revising the formula began earlier this year, responding to longstanding […]
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador has secured a $29.6 million settlement with pharmaceutical company Glenmark tied to allegations of a drug price conspiracy, the attorney general’s office announced. The settlement represents one of the larger pharmaceutical enforcement actions involving Idaho in recent years. Drug pricing conspiracies typically involve agreements among manufacturers or distributors to artificially […]
A former Idaho state senator brought an ambitious tax proposal to North Idaho last week, arguing before a small crowd in Post Falls that the state should phase out property taxes entirely — a move he says would restore genuine private ownership for Idaho residents. Scott Herndon, who previously represented a North Idaho district in […]
The Idaho State Tax Commission has declined to release detailed data about the state’s new private school tax-credit program after receiving at least seven public records requests on the subject between February and July — frustrating researchers, journalists, and a former school administrator who sought basic information about where the money is going. What’s Being […]
The contest to fill retiring U.S. Senator Jim Risch’s Idaho seat has produced a striking pattern of contradictory polling, with multiple surveys of the same race yielding significantly different pictures of where the candidates stand. Risch, who has held the seat since 2009, announced he would not seek another term, setting off one of the […]
With Idaho’s 2026 general election approaching, a candidate survey conducted by CBS2/FOX9 drew responses from just 100 of the 220 candidates contacted — a response rate of roughly 45 percent — offering voters a partial but direct look at where those running for office stand on the issues. How the Survey Worked Candidates received a […]
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador has formally requested that the federal government allow Idaho to manage its own grizzly bear population, pushing for full delisting of the species by December 2026. The request comes as the Trump administration has proposed revised rules for grizzly management that would reduce the regulatory burden on states and give […]
Kaylee Peterson, the Democratic candidate for Idaho’s 1st Congressional District, has extended a formal debate invitation to incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher and independent candidate Sarah Zabel, setting a two-hour forum for the evening of October 17. The Invitation Peterson announced the invitation on Wednesday, with the debate scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. […]