WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Agriculture Committee is set to consider small cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program in an effort to appease conservatives who say the food aid has become too expensive
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KLIX)- Even though it is spring time, Sawtooth National Forest Officials are warning conditions are drying out quickly.
The Forest Service says abandoned campfires have started small fires on forest lands already this week
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As Idaho's J.R. Simplot Co promotes its genetically engineered potato, a tiny Canadian apple breeder is working on a similar product that could provide a glimpse of how consumers react
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo's ex-campaign manager blames his friend for making a "less-than-professional" investment of $250,000 from political donors in a Las Vegas company amid the 2008 financial crisis
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The FBI is offering up to a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man suspected in six bank robberies in Idaho and Utah between December and March
WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation safety officials are exploring ways to eliminate drunken driving deaths, which account for about a third of the nation's more than 30,000 annual traffic fatalities — a share that has remained stubbornly unchanged since the late-1990s
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says the nation is heading into a tough wildfire season made even more challenging because budget cuts mean fewer firefighters to battle blazes
JEROME, Idaho (AP) — Officials in Jerome say a fire that destroyed an apartment building and damaged two nearby buildings last month started when a woman accidentally left a hot glue gun on a plastic chair
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two Idaho state judges have raised concerns the Department of Correction is recommending probation for convicted criminals, rather than prison time, to manage its budget for keeping people behind bars
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided that it is not going to continue killing gulls that have been eating all the baby Caspian terns at a nesting colony at the mouth of the Columbia River
CHICAGO (AP) — Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery. For years the choice was whether to remove just the cancerous lump or the whole breast. Now, new approaches are dramatically changing the way these operations are done
