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Idaho schools face $33.3 million shortfall as Trump freezes education funds
ABC 6 - Idaho
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July 16, 2025
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho's top education official says schools must "press pause" on certain programs as the Trump administration freezes more than $6 billion in federal education grants, impacting an estimated $33.3 million of the state's education...
Bryan Kohberger watches from jail as Idaho murders rules evidence can finally be made public
Daily Mail
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July 17, 2025
Bryan Kohberger watched from his Idaho jail as a judge made a critical decision that could finally allow never-before-seen evidence about the quadruple murders to be made public. In a brief court hearing Thursday, Ada County Judge Steven Hippler...
World News | Idaho Judge Has Lifted Sweeping Gag Order in Bryan Kohberger's Quadruple Murder Case
Latestly
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July 17, 2025
Boise, Jul 17 (AP) An Idaho judge has lifted a sweeping gag order in Bryan Kohberger's quadruple murder case. Kohberger avoided a potential death sentence by pleading guilty earlier this month to the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of...
Idaho bookstore gives out banned books annually
Boise State Public Radio - Idaho
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July 15, 2025
The Idaho legislature passed House Bill 710 last year, giving Idahoans the ability to request content deemed quote “harmful to minors” be age restricted to adults-only. The bill has been challenged in federal court by private schools, publishing...
Legals for July, 15 2025
Bonner County Daily Bee - Idaho
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July 15, 2025
SUMMONS By Publication TO: Tabita L Stewart You have been sued by Stephen B Stewart, the Petitioner in the District Court and for Bonner County, Idaho, Case No. CV09-18-1018. The nature of the claim against you is for 100% custody of our child....
Idaho plans emergency system upgrade through 'Next Generation 911'
KTVB 7 - Idaho
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July 16, 2025
Next Generation 911 infrastructure will allow residents to send pictures and video to dispatch. The new technology also provides more precise location data. BOISE, Idaho — The Gem State is moving forward with a major modernization of its emergency...
Bipartisan support helps foundations avoid tax hike in new budget law
The Detroit News - Michigan
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Two Republican senators and a broad bipartisan coalition of funders and nonprofits prevented a 600% increase in taxes levied on the endowments of the largest private foundations as part of President Donald Trump’s the tax and spending legislation....
Idaho Schools Get a Lesson in Budget Busting Spending
KLIX - Idaho
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July 15, 2025
The gravy train isn’t running, either. Schools have just learned the Trump White House is scaling back grants. Money confiscated from taxpayers or borrowed from hostile powers. In Twin Falls, a medium to large district, the loss could total $1.5...
Bryan Kohberger's Idaho murders gag order reversed ahead of sentencing
The Mirror US
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July 17, 2025
A state district judge lifted the gag order surrounding the Bryan Kohberger case on Thursday morning — less than a week before the quadruple murder suspect is slated to be sentenced. "At this point, I don't think that I can justify the...
Idaho Secretary of State continues firefighting adventure
KMVT - Idaho
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July 15, 2025
BOISE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane said he did not set out to be a firefighter. “When I became Secretary of State, someone pitched me the idea at IDL to go through fire training with all the recruits,” McGrane said....
Under Trump administration, Idaho refugees are losing temporary protections
Boise State Public Radio - Idaho
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July 17, 2025
The Trump administration is working to end temporary protected status for some Afghan refugees. A United States Court of Appeals has paused the protection’s termination until next Monday. In May, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem...
Idaho State Police clarify new passing law for drivers
KHQ - Washington State
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July 15, 2025
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho – Idaho State Police (ISP) have addressed confusion surrounding a new passing law that came into effect on July 1. The law permits drivers to exceed the speed limit by up to 15 miles per hour when overtaking other vehicles on...
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety Acquires Idaho Fire Sprinkler Leader Accurate Fire Protection Solutions
MENAFN
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July 17, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) Accurate Fire Protection Solutions , also doing business as Mountain Fire Sprinklers, offers quality installation and inspection of fire sprinkler systems for commercial buildings around the Wood River Valley region of Idaho....
Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #165
Ballotpedia
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July 16, 2025
Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board governance, the politics surrounding it, and education policy. In today’s edition, you’ll find: On the issues: The debate over teaching...
Alaska’s Eielson Air Force Base is top choice for military’s first nuclear microreactor
Alaska Journal of Commerce
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Eielson Air Force Base entrance in Fairbanks, photographed on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (Emily Mesner / ADN) An Air Force base in Alaska has been selected to be the first U.S. military installation with a nuclear microreactor under a Defense...
Idaho State Patrol: Reported crime drops in Kootenai County
KREM 2 - Washington State
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July 15, 2025
Kootenai County saw an almost 10% decrease in reported crime in 2024, with 7,079 offenses reported in total, 905 fewer than the year before. COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — The number of reported crimes dropped statewide and in Kootenai County last year,...
Idaho approves $15M grant to upgrade emergency response system to Next Generation 911
Idaho Capital Sun
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July 15, 2025
The Idaho Public Safety Communications Commission on July 10 approved a $15 million grant to modernize the state’s emergency response system. The money will go toward moving Idaho’s decades-old analog 911 infrastructure to a secure, digital...
Cattle Battle: Wolves and livestock collide; one Idaho project offers solutions
Farm & Ranch - Idaho
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Idaho rancher Jay Smith has a wolf problem. Over the last 20 years, Smith said wolves have killed more than 200 of his cattle and caused major financial harm to his family’s business. “At today’s value at nearly $2,000 a head, times that by 200...
Man sues city over disputed land parcel on Boise River known as 'Sawmill Island'
ABC 6 - Idaho
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July 17, 2025
EAST END, Idaho — A small stretch of undeveloped land along the Boise River is now at the center of two lawsuits filed against the City of Boise and the Boise City Canal Company. The property, referred to as Sawmill Island, is a brushy, unmarked...
Judge extends temporary block: Idaho can’t ask patients immigration status to receive HIV treatment
Boise State Public Radio - Idaho
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July 16, 2025
A judge extended a temporary block on a law preventing the state of Idaho from asking patients with HIV to prove their legal status. The state receives assistance through the Ryan White program, a federal service that provides treatment to...