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Conservation Voters for Idaho has new director

Conservation Voters for Idaho, a bipartisan, non-profit organization that works to elect pro-conservation leaders, has named John T. Reuter as its new executive director.

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EDUCATION

Meridian Masons announce scholarship opportunity

The Meridian Masonic Lodge invites high school seniors to apply for its annual Charles Monger Memorial Scholarship, named for a Mason who was dedicated to education.

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BOISE, GARDEN CITY, MOUNTAIN HOME

Tour bus catches fire on way to Sun Valley

BOISE, Idaho — Fire officials say no one was injured when a bus caring Australian tourists to the central Idaho resort area of Sun Valley caught fire and burned east of Boise on Saturday.

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LOCAL NEWS

Canyon County Democrats meet Tuesday

The Central Committee of the Canyon County Democratic party will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Courthouse, 1115 Albany St., Caldwell.

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CRIME

Idaho is fertile ground for embezzlers

A national study of employee thefts of $100,000 or more from businesses shows that Idaho ranks No. 7 in the country for risk — possibly because of the trusting nature of its many small family businesses.

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NAMPA, CALDWELL

Canyon County clerk hopes for remedy to time crunch before primary election

They acknowledge that chances are slim, but Canyon County officials hope lawmakers will either delay the primary two weeks or take precinct committeemen off the ballot, giving county political parties the authority to fill those positions.

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IDAHO HISTORY

Idaho History: Legislators had fun in sessions of the ‘Third House’

The creation of a nonsensical “Third House” of the Idaho Legislature was announced in a letter to the editor of the Idaho Tri-weekly Statesman on Christmas Day 1866. It left little doubt as to the function of the new body.

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EDUCATION

New statewide project to improve Idaho schools aims to build leadership, relationships and student achievement

More than 170 schoolteachers, administrators, board members, parents and students gathered Friday in Boise to draw ideas, energy and know-how from experts and from each other. Add similar gatherings this month in Coeur d’Alene and Sun Valley, and you have nearly 500 Idahoans looking at their...

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IDAHO LEGISLATURE

What happened last week, what's coming this week in the Idaho Legislature

Last week’s highlights: The House Resources and Conservation Committee on Thursday voted 16-0 to limit local governments’ authority over oil and natural gas drilling, and Senate Republicans refused to consider updates to Idaho’s Human Rights Act to protect gay, lesbian, bisexual...

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LOCAL NEWS PHOTOS

Ullr Festival at Bogus Resort: 02/11/2012

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STATE

Yellowstone Park penny tax might set precedent

National Park Service officials say, if approved, a 1-cent concessionaires sales tax to raise money for infrastructure projects at Yellowstone would probably be the first of its kind.

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