Sen. John McGee resigned Wednesday morning.

Idaho Senators want to make it illegal for people to drive and text at the same time.

Weighing the impacts of a tax cut...

One Idaho Lawmakers says insurance companies in Idaho should not be required to include coverage for contraception.

Tax cuts vs. Medicaid funding, is the debate that black and white?

A bill to evict Occupy Boise is headed to the Governor's desk.

State employees may get a raise in the next fiscal year.

The Legislature’s budget committee set a spending target today.

An Idaho lawmaker wants to form a new committee.

One Democrat tries to open up the debate one more time.

An Idaho legislative committee voted today to honor the lifetime achievements of Steve Appleton.

The Idaho Senate voted today to evict Occupy Boise from the Capital Mall.

The Senate State Affairs Committee killed a bill that would have made it illegal to discriminate against gays and lesbians in Idaho.

Idaho Senators changed part of a bill today to get Occupy Boise off state lands. The bill no longer treats personal property as litter if protestors are evicted.

Imagine graduating high school with two years of college already under your belt. That’s the intention of a bill passed Monday by Idaho’s House Education Committee.

Idaho’s budget-writing committee heard public testimony today for only the third time in its history.

Occupy Wall Street sparked a national movement last fall that resonated in Idaho too. By November, Occupy Boise protestors had set up camp on state land and now some legislators want them off. What’s happening locally reflects a national struggle where First Amendment rights conflict with rules about camping on public land.

Some Idaho lawmakers aren’t comfortable with a bill to evict Occupy Boise. A Committee wants to make changes to the bill. This could mean Occupy Boise won’t have to leave until July 1st.

Democrats in the Idaho Statehouse unveiled a jobs package today. They call it IJOBS 2.0.

The group tasked with re-drawing Idaho's political lines gathered this morning to start creating yet another map.

Put aside for a second the debate over immigration reform. Instead, focus on dollars and cents: What would happen to Idaho’s economy with less foreign-born workers? One scenario concludes the impact would be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. That’s what some lawmakers in the state legislature heard today

The Idaho House voted today for a bill to evict Occupy Boise from state land.

Idaho’s schools Superintendent has asked lawmakers to increase the money they send to schools by 4.7%. Tom Luna insists lawmakers replace cuts made last year to the chunk of money the state puts aside for teachers’ salaries.

Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna goes before legislative budget writers Thursday morning. He’ll make the case for why public school funding should be increased. Idaho teachers watch this budgeting process closely.

Occupy Boise protesters are a step closer to being evicted off state land.

Idaho’s Redistricting Commission meets Thursday to draw a new legislative map. But just who will be on the Commission, is anybody’s guess. The Idaho GOP removed two Commissioners Monday. But those appointees say they can’t be fired and they won’t resign.

The House State Affairs Committee heard more testimony today on a bill to evict Occupy Boise from state land.

Some Idaho lawmakers want to evict Occupy Boise protestors off state land. Friday, they heard from the public on a bill that would do just that.

The Idaho Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state’s current redistricting map is unconstitutional.

Medicaid recipients, their advocates and service providers want to drive home the point cuts to the program have real effects for individuals.

The Idaho Supreme Court tossed out the latest plan to redraw political lines. Justices ruled four to one the plan violates the state’s Constitution because it splits counties unnecessarily.

Governor Butch Otter planned to travel to three universities today to tout his IGEM Plan. It stands for Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission.

More people are signing up for help from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

CAT needs $17-million to keep it going through the end of the fiscal year in June.

Idaho is one of nine states that doesn’t have an independent ethics commission. These panels investigate state officials who may, for example, have abused their public office or misused state funds. In Idaho, Democrats and Republicans have lobbied ethics claims against one another in the past. But now there’s a push to find a new way to handle them.

Democratic lawmakers in the Idaho Statehouse unveiled their plan for an independent ethics commission Thursday.

Challenges like this are nothing new.

Do Idaho state employees need more money?

Idaho’s lawmakers are back in Boise for this year’s legislative session. We wanted to find out what people want lawmakers to work on so we sent Scott Ki to talk with people out for lunch near the statehouse.

Idaho Democratic lawmakers didn’t hold back on their official response Tuesday to Governor Butch Otter’s State of the State address. They’ll propose an ethics commission and a jobs package this session.

Governor Butch Otter talked with lawmakers about education in his annual State of the State address Monday. Otter has recently called restoring funds to education one of his top priorities.

Butch Otter gave his budget recommendations to the legislature Monday. It’s different in one fundamental way from years past. He recommends a 5 percent across the board budget increase. Scott Ki begins with the Governor outlining his tax cut proposal.

We break down the job portion of the fiscal year 2013 budget.

Otter wants to give state employees a raise.

Idaho Governor Butch Otter unveils his vision for the future of Idaho.

He hopes to work with the Legislature to find a way to cut 45-million in Idaho taxes.

Spending during the downturn has drained the Rainy Day funds.

Lawmakers will decide in the next few months, whether Idaho will have its own health insurance exchange or go with a federal one.

Tom Luna told Adam Cotterell, this year he wants to make what he calls “tweaks” to the Students Come First laws.

A new legislative session begins Monday. Leaders in the Idaho statehouse shared their thoughts on what their key priorities are this year with reporters at an Associated Press preview last week.

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