Monday, December 15, 2025

Gay rights activists return to Capitol

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Anti-discrimination legislation sought

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'Add the Words' activists eye service-denial bill

BOISE - Gay-rights activists were stymied again this year in winning a hearing to add discrimination protections to the Idaho Human Rights Act.
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Protecting professional licenses

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Hoping to cash in

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Otter open to shifting grocery credit to tax cut

BOISE - Gov. Butch Otter would consider a proposal from House Speaker Scott Bedke to shift money from a popular grocery tax credit to individual and corporate income tax cuts.
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Schools standards debated

BOISE - Idaho's new Common Core standards drew a crowd Wednesday in the Capitol's auditorium for debate over the merits of this disputed educational movement.
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FEC: Craig ignored warnings, spent money illegally

BOISE (AP) — Federal Election Commission lawyers urged a federal judge not to heed U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's contention that regulators are being too hard on him — and to force him to pay nearly $360,000 in fines and restitution for tapping campaign accounts for his legal defense following his …
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Same-sex Idaho couples must file taxes separately

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Betting on the sun

BOISE - The developer of a proposed $180 million southern Idaho solar energy project hopes to be delivering electricity within months, despite past rejections by regulators.
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Megaload shipment crosses into Idaho

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Idaho hunter pushes post-Christmas wolf derby

BOISE - An Idaho outfitter is organizing a post-Christmas contest where two-person teams of hunters will be awarded $2,000 in cash prizes and trophies for shooting wolves and coyotes, angering animal advocates who brand it as a "wolf slaughter."
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GOP panel to meet amid calls for lawmaker to quit

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Patterson won't quit

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Senator wants GOP lawmaker to resign

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Man pleads guilty in gambling case

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Boy dies in school bus crash

KUNA - A school bus collided with a dump truck Thursday morning at a rural Idaho intersection, killing an 11-year-old boy and injuring four other children.
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Clean it up

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Just 338 Idahoans select exchange insurance

BOISE - Just 338 people selected health coverage via Idaho's insurance exchange during its glitch-plagued first month.
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Utilities commission accepts new landline rules

BOISE (AP) — Idaho's regulated phone companies are getting more time to respond to outages and won't face financial penalties for taking too long to get the lines back up and running.
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Justices nix law protecting cottage leases

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court on Friday struck down a state law that shielded people with coveted leases of state-owned cottage sites on Payette and Priest lakes from competitive auctions.
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Arrest warrant issued for ex-Idaho senator

BOISE (AP) — A judge issued arrest warrants Tuesday for former Idaho Republican state Sen. John McGee after he was charged with disturbing the peace and violating probation terms from a 2011 DUI conviction.
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Cd'A Tribe touts 'Mrs. Swing's' roots

BOISE (AP) — Mildred Rinker Bailey was known to fans as "Mrs. Swing," whose slight, throaty voice won her acclaim as one of the great white jazz singers of the 1930s and 1940s
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Idaho treasurer defends hiring limos for NYC trips

BOISE (AP) - A stretch limousine for eight people - with minibar, mood lights and TV - awaited Idaho Sen. Dean Cameron when he arrived with his wife at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on June 7, 2009.
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