July 9, 2020
SPOKANE, Wash. — At least eight people, including three children, were killed when two airplanes collided over a scenic mountain lake in northern Idaho, the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. One of the aircraft was a float plane operated …
December 24, 2019
The Idaho Supreme Court on Friday issued a ruling allowing the family of a Caldwell worker who died on the job to sue the employer for wrongful death. Generally workers’ compensation is the exclusive remedy for employees who are killed …
September 5, 2014
The insurance company for the south-central Idaho city of Twin Falls says it won’t pay reimbursement costs sought by residents whose homes sustained damage when the city sewers backed up last month. The Idaho Counties Risk Management Program sent letters …
August 22, 2014
Officials in some Idaho counties are declaring a state of emergency after ill-timed hail storms and several days of rain-damaged crops. Clearwater County commissioners in northern Idaho declared a state of emergency earlier this week after farmers on the Weippe …
March 17, 2014
A 25-year-old Boise, Idaho, man police say set his BMW on fire to get out of making car payments is facing a charge of third-degree arson. KTVB-TV reports that Steven M. Carter turned himself in at the Ada County Jail …
March 13, 2014
The number of oil trains moving through north Idaho is expected to increase in coming years, raising fears of a catastrophic accident. BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas says they move an average of 1.5 loaded oil trains through north Idaho …
February 27, 2014
House members voted 61-8 to give ski areas expanded protections from lawsuits that arise when their customers are hurt in terrain parks or swept up in in-bounds avalanches. Tuesday’s vote moves the measure to the Senate. The Idaho Ski Areas …
February 27, 2014
A bid to increase speed limits on Idaho roads raced to a victory on the Senate floor, as lawmakers voted 30-4 to send it on to the House. Legal speeds would jump from 75 to 80 mph on the interstate …
February 19, 2014
A Senate committee agreed Idaho’s boating laws governing gross negligence are too vague and backed a measure aiming to help judges mete out appropriate punishments for mariners who put others’ lives at risk. The bill, which cleared the Senate Judiciary …
January 21, 2014
An eastern Idaho judge has suspended the work release for a former Rigby councilman convicted of insurance fraud. The Post Register reports that 7th District Judge Gregory Moeller made the order Wednesday concerning Lawrence Blackburn. Idaho Deputy Attorney General Kenneth …