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The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee agreed on a budget Tuesday that proposes spending roughly $377.7 million on the University of Idaho, Idaho State University, Boise State University and Lewis-Clark State College.

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OLYMPIA -- Gov. Chris Gregoire responded Tuesday morning to Idaho Gov. Butch Otter's " love letter " to Washington businesses, in which he suggested Idaho could lure away firms turned off by tax increases here. "I'm not an expert on Idaho," Gregoire ...

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BOISE -- Senators voted 20-14 to require bikes on Idaho's roads be outfitted with at least one brake. The bill was in a package of bicycle safety and responsibility measures from Boise Democratic Sen. Elliot Werk. Werk said Tuesday he wants to make ...

BOISE -- State lawmakers plan to give Idaho's four-year public universities about $32.1 million less in total funding during the next fiscal year. The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Tuesday agreed on a budget that proposes spending roughly ...

Eberle and Lavitt hope that this opportunity will help Idaho to have a voice nationally. "We have much to learn from them and they from us," Eberle said. "Federal politics tend to jump over us, and we're largely neglected. This collaboration allows ...

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010 file photo, China's Zhou Yang reacts after winning the gold medal for the women's 1500m short track skating competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was a political gaffe for ...

Every high school has at least a handful of them, gifted students who blow through Faulkner as if it were a comic book, teenagers who catch on to calculus as if it were checkers. These students are often just marking time in high school and typically ...

OLYMPIA -- Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter put out a " love letter " today to businesses in Washington and Oregon, saying Idaho would love to woo any of them turned off their homes states' tax increases. Otter, a Republican, wrote that phones in his ...

Boise, Mar 4 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Idaho lawmakers want to help the bright and the meritorious students, by encouraging them to graduate early. They want to make a law that will pay the bright students scholarships, so that they can enroll in college ...