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This 1936 file photo shows Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah. Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Sen. Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush's borrowing of a quote from Borah Thursday, May 15, 2008 in...
Those of us who like our water uncontaminated with arsenic will be glad to hear this: the U.S. Forest Service is making the Atlanta Gold mining company post a $8.6 million bond and clean up existing pollution before they dig around any more. Let's review: the Atlanta folks are mining for gold,...
The City of Boise has lost another legal battle. The city had asked Ada County's district court judges to set aside a 1980 order requiring Boise to provide magistrate court facilities. Ada County convinced the judges to let it intervene in the request, against Boise's objections. In October, the...
BOISE – Even if confessed child killer Joseph Edward Duncan is found mentally incompetent to represent himself at his federal sentencing hearing, his previous guilty pleas will likely stand, legal experts say. “The law is that if you are incompetent, the proceedings are suspended,” Rodney Uphoff,...
Five Boise teenagers will leave Friday morning for a national rocketry competition in Virginia. All are members of the teen club at Boise's Discovery Center of Idaho, where they learned to build rockets, launch them to a specific height with a payload of two eggs and return the eggs to ground...
by JESSIE BONNER - University of Idaho President Tim White, who helped lead the Moscow campus through one of its most turbulent periods, has been named the new chancellor of the University of California-Riverside. The University of California Board of Regents voted to hire White on Thursday and...
Associated Press BOISE -- A new exhibit opening this month at the Idaho State Historical Museum will look at the role Masonic fraternities have played in Idaho's communities since the gold rush days. The first three Masonic lodges in the state were incorporated in 1868 in Idaho City, Boise and...
By Rocky Barker and Erika Bolstad, The Idaho Statesman, Boise May 15--Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne may have cast polar bears as the enduring symbol of the effects of global warming on Wednesday by protecting them with the Endangered Species Act.
Once again, DHS_the Department of Homeland Security_is showing why it_s worth the megabillions in tax dollars we pour into it. A salesperson down at the Fancy Pants boutique told the Washington Post, _I_m less scared than I am confused._ Imagine how confused folks are in New York and Washington!...
Kelsey Jacobson Idaho's NewsChannel 7 BOISE -- After 17 years of planning and fundraising it is finally opening day! Idaho’s first water education center opened in Boise and now visitors, kids and adults, will have the chance to learn all about water in a fun, interactive new way. The Boise...
