Latest Idaho Headlines
All the headlines from our Idaho Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Idaho Gun Show Canceled Due to Insurance Requirements
Oct 7 2013 // Members of a southwestern Idaho gun club may have to end a decades-long tradition of gun shows because Ada County raised its insurance requirements after two people were injured in an accidental firearm discharge at the...
Idaho Insurance Agents Leery Of Exchange’s Promise
Oct 1 2013 // Insurance agents are still waiting to be convinced Idaho’s insurance exchange will benefit their businesses, though the board that established this Internet marketplace for individual and small business coverage...
Idaho Fly Shop Owner Gets Jail Time On Workers’ Comp Law
Sep 26 2013 // A state judge has ordered a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho fly shop owner to serve five days in jail for violating a court order stemming from allegations he failed to provide workers’ compensation insurance. The Idaho...
Idaho Gun Show Canceled Due to Insurance Requirements
Sep 20 2013 // Members of a southwestern Idaho gun club may have to end a decades-long tradition of gun shows because Ada County raised its insurance requirements after two people were injured in an accidental firearm discharge at the...
Idaho Man Sues Experian, Says Credit Report Wrong
Sep 9 2013 // Jose Luis Calderon says he had the cash to buy a car, but he decided to get an auto loan so he could build up a credit history. It wasn’t until he was turned down that the 27-year-old Nampa man realized he already...
Mississippi Medical Students Get Free ID Theft Insurance
Aug 26 2013 // The University of Mississippi Medical Center said it will give students free insurance against identity theft after an accidental privacy breach. Last week, UMMC mistakenly sent about 190 people an email that had a...
Wildfires Across The West Push Spending Past $1B
Aug 22 2013 // More than 40 uncontained, active and large wildfires dot the western U.S. from Arizona to Washington state and Alaska, taxing national firefighting resources and helping to push spending past $1 billion for the year. The...
The Buckner Co. Opens Third Office in Idaho, Taps Williams
Aug 20 2013 // The Buckner Co. opened a new office in Boise, Idaho and named as head of the operations Chad Williams, who spent the past decade in the Boise commercial insurance arena. Expanding into the Boise market has been a long-term...
Idaho Man Sues Experian, Says Credit Report Wrong
Aug 19 2013 // Jose Luis Calderon says he had the cash to buy a car, but he decided to get an auto loan so he could build up a credit history. It wasn’t until he was turned down that the 27-year-old Nampa man realized he already...
Otter Declares Disaster for Idaho Wildfire Areas
Aug 14 2013 // Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has issued a disaster declaration for areas on southern Idaho ravaged in recent weeks by wildfires. The declaration announced Monday specifically targets Elmore County, where two large,...
Starley Leavitt Insurance Taps Schenk in Idaho
Aug 2 2013 // Chris Schenk has joined Starley Leavitt Insurance Agency in Twin Falls, Idaho. Schenk will focus on home and auto, life, health and commercial insurance. Prior to insurance Schenk helped run a car detailing business. He...
Idaho Marks 1-Year Ban on Texting While Driving
Jul 22 2013 // Idaho State Police say they have issued more than 66 citations statewide for texting while driving since the texting ban took effect a year ago. The Post Register reported that 16 of those citations since July 1, 2012,...
USDA Issues Drought Disaster For East Idaho Counties
Jul 15 2013 // Federal agriculture officials have issued a disaster declaration for Clark County in eastern Idaho due to a lack of rain for the last two months. The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week also put four other nearby...
Former Idaho Councilman Waives Preliminary in Insurance Fraud
Jul 11 2013 // A former councilman for the eastern Idaho city of Rigby has waived his preliminary hearing on felony charges of insurance fraud and grand theft. Prosecutors say Lawrence Blackburn wrongly took money from the estate of...
Idaho Marks 1-Year Ban On Texting While Driving
Jul 9 2013 // Idaho State Police say they have issued 66 citations statewide for texting while driving since the texting ban took effect a year ago. The Post Register reported that 16 of those citations since July 1, 2012, occurred in...
Couple Files Lawsuit Against County In Idaho
Jul 8 2013 // A northern Idaho couple has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Kootenai County. The Coeur d’Alene Press reported that the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Coeur d’Alene contends Kathy Pagano...
Study: 290,000 Idaho Jobs to Be Available By 2020
Jul 1 2013 // Nearly 290,000 jobs will become available in Idaho by 2020, a new study says. Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce in a study finds the fastest-growing occupations will be health care...
4 Men Sue Boy Scouts, LDS Church in Idaho
Jun 26 2013 // Four men are suing the Mormon church and Boy Scouts of America in federal court, saying they were sexually abused while attending scouting functions in Idaho. Attorneys Gilion Dumas, Andrew Chasan and Timothy Walton filed...
Special Olympics Idaho Sued Over Alleged Rape
Jun 24 2013 // The mother and husband of a Special Olympics Idaho athlete are suing the organization, alleging it was negligent in failing to protect the athlete from being raped during a Special Olympics event in Boise in July 2011. The...
$4.2M Payout OK’d In LAPD Mistaken ID Shooting
Jun 21 2013 // The Los Angeles City Council has agreed to pay $4.2 million to two women whose truck was shot up by police during the manhunt for cop-turned-killer Christopher Dorner. City News Service says the council voted 10-nothing on...
