Government Shutdown

The latest federal government shutdown will immediately affect Idaho’s 11,000 federal workers, though the residual effects of the stoppage will take time to ripple outward.

Congress is scrambling this week to avoid a shutdown of the federal government. If lawmakers can’t reach a deal, agriculture and food aid programs could see impacts, and passage of the Farm Bill would face likely delays.

The Office of Government Ethics just released guidelines for federal employees during government shutdowns, about three weeks after the government…

During the partial shutdown, the National Park Service said it was using visitor entrance fees for basic operational costs. That's now changed following...

The National Park Service may have lost millions of dollars in revenue during the recent government shutdown, and recovering from this setback may take...

Senator Mike Crapo joins Idaho Matters live to answer listener questions about the government shutdown, border security, foreign policy and anything else.

A public meeting on the CuMo Mine, a potential mining project near the Boise River headwaters, was supposed to happen in January. But because of the…

During the partial government shutdown, national parks remained open but did not collect entrance fees—an important source of revenue, especially for...

The government shutdown proved to be devastating for hundreds of thousands of federal employees and it cost the American economy billions of dollars.…

Senator Jim Risch weighs in on government shutdown and border security.A state program that allows high school students to tailor personalized courses of…