A handful of cash-strapped states are getting more aggressive about collecting every tax owed — hiring more collectors, hounding scofflaws and exploiting corners of their tax laws that haven't been enforced in years.
Monday's offer came in a tongue-in-cheek letter where Otter sarcastically apologized to Kitzhaber after an Idaho hunter killed a wolf from an Oregon pack that strayed across Idaho's border to the east.
Bureau of Reclamation managers say the Teton Dam, now projected to cost some $550 million, is still part of the conversation, but mostly as a benchmark for other, potentially cheaper storage alternatives.
Ten conservation groups and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asked a federal judge Thursday to approve their plan to lift endangered species protections for wolves in Montana and Idaho, effectively reversing his previous rulings on the matter.
Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has eschewed living in the hilltop mansion that was donated to the state by the late french fry billionaire, J.R. Simplot. Otter resides at his ranch west of Boise.
With the 68-year-old Butch Otter, voters know what they're getting: A lean, jocular fiscal conservative who says government's role is to promote a solid business environment, then get out of the way.
After talks with the federal government collapsed, Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter ordered Idaho wildlife managers Monday to relinquish their duty to arrest poachers or to even investigate when wolves are killed illegally.
The governor's office said Tuesday that Otter will give retailers until next Friday to return or destroy the substance often called "Spice." Otter is expected to sign the temporary ban on Oct. 15.
An Idaho-based geothermal energy developer said Thursday it's closer to getting a federal loan worth up to $102.2 million to build a 22-megawatt power plant in the eastern Oregon desert.
Back in March, Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter sent a "love letter" to out-of-state businesses, trying to coax them to move to Idaho. Now, the state's chief executive is taking this courtship to the Internet.
Butch Otter has five rivals in all in his GOP primary; the two best known, Ada County Commissioner Sharon Ullman and former elk rancher Rex Rammell from Rexburg.
Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter on Wednesday chastised the U.S. Forest Service for forbidding the state's educational broadcasting network from sending a cameraman into a central Idaho wilderness area.