On a 51-18 vote, the House Tuesday approved a North Idaho lawmaker's bill to freeze the state's multi-billion-dollar general fund budgets at 6.05

The Idaho Department of Correction on Tuesday abruptly canceled plans to build a 100-bed prison work release center here, but for center opponent

Republican state Rep. Jim Clark has joined the opposition to a proposed prison work center, citing a lagging economy after Sept. 11.

  Idaho may have $73 million socked away in its "rainey day fund" to deal with budget emergencies before the year is out.

 

Citing the continued contraction of the state's economy, Gov. Dirk Kempthorne ordered another $19.6 million general tax spending reduction on Tue

One local lawmaker was disappointed to hear about Gov. Dirk Kempthorne's second budget holdback this year, but also thinks it doesn't go far enou

Rep. Jim Clark has been named to the federal Executive Committee of the Task Force on Tax and Fiscal Policy.

 

The c

Sunday's strikes against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's training camps were timely and justified, said North Idaho elected officials.

News of a state spending holdback sent local school administrators reaching reluctantly for their red pens Wednesday in an effort to bring their

   Local Republicans will ask Gov. Dirk Kempthorne to stop the building of a prison work-release center in Kootenai County.