State Budget

Idaho will not use state resources to backfill any federal grants left in limbo while the Trump administration begins reviewing those awards this week.

University of Idaho president Scott Green made an emotional plea to lawmakers for an additional million dollars to help recover costs incurred by the school in response to the murder of four students in November and fielded questions about the school's DEI budget.

The study focused on the fiscal impacts to state budgets, and found Western states collectively spent nearly $12 billion dollars on suppressing wildfires between 2005 and 2015.

K-12 education remains Gov. Brad Little’s (R) top priority in his proposed budget for fiscal year 2021, with every other facet of state government seeing…

State officials are painting a fairly rosy economic picture in Idaho to lawmakers returning for the upcoming session, despite the state collecting less…

Idaho Republican gubernatorial candidate Tommy Ahlquist said this week his campaign promise to cut $100 million in 100 days if elected may not result in a…

As the Idaho Legislature prepares its annual budget, it's debating on how best to handle a $139 million surplus. That's a good thing. But according to…

Idaho is on track to finish the fiscal year with $139 million more tax revenue than the 2016 Legislature predicted, if the latest forecast holds…

The Idaho Senate decided to kill a major overhaul to Idaho’s tax system Tuesday.

Legislative budget writers are matching Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's request to restore public education money slashed during the economic downturn by adding…