If passed into law, the new Idaho bill would transfer $50 million to homeowners and send another $50 million annually for school facilities.

A bill designed to combat bullying and harassment in Idaho schools has advanced to the House floor.House Bill 44 aims to ensure that families an

Several Idaho legislators worried about the possibility of data breaches and wondered if digital driver's licenses are necessary.

This bill is not about whether the death penalty is good or bad,” Idaho Republican Representative Bruce Skaug stated. “Our job is to carry it out in the most efficient manner under the bounds of our constitutional requirements.

House Speaker Mike Moyle, R-Star, presented the proposed bill, which would take $50 million from a fund that’s no longer in use and send it to reduce homeowner property taxes one-time, and also would take another $50 million from online sales tax revenue and provide it on an ongoing basis toward school facility bonds and levies.

A Wednesday morning hearing turned into a two-hour debate about Christian scripture, morality, tax benefits, states’ rights, and the implications of forbidding same-sex couples from marrying — a right that they have had in Idaho for more than a decade.

A legislative petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage is heading to the Idaho House floor. After nearly two hours of testimony, House Joint Memorial 1 passed the Idaho House State Affairs Committee in a 13-2 vote on Wednesday,

The legislature in Idaho has moved to make firing squads the primary form of execution for prisoners on death row, citing difficulty obtaining the drug cocktail necessary for lethal injections

Currently, the state’s primary method of carrying out the death penalty is lethal injection, and the firing squad is to be used if the chemicals for lethal injection cannot be obtained.

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Idaho’s neighboring state executed Ronnie Lee Gardner in 2010 by firing squad. Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Carolina also permit use of the firing squad as an alternative to lethal injection.

Little’s announcement came on the heals of House Speaker Mike Johnson ordering that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day. Johnson’s directive paused a 30-day flag-lowering order following Carter’s death.

An Idaho Senate committee wants sideboards on a bill that would expand the Idaho Attorney General’s powers to investigate, and possibly prosecute, city elected officials for criminal activity. On Monday,