All the headlines from our Idaho Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 11 2017 // City officials in central Idaho are warning residents to prepare for more flooding as muddy water continues to overwhelm neighborhoods in Ketchum and Bellevue. Blaine County Disaster Services Coordinator Chris Corwin says...
May 11 2017 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS), the corporate insurance unit of Allianz SE, is working with Praedicat, the Los Angeles-based insurtech analytics firm, to better predict key catastrophe liability...
May 5 2017 // Accustomed to drought, south-central Idaho was overwhelmed this winter by simply too much water.Snowstorms cloaked the mountains and valleys. The saturated ground froze, buckling asphalt. Then sudden runoff in February and...
May 2 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Summit Insurance Resource Group in Sandpoint, Idaho.Summit will operate as part of Alliant Americas, which provides the middle market with regionally focused insurance products...
Apr 26 2017 // Boise, Idaho officials have expressed concerns with federal maps that propose adding hundreds of acres to a flood plain in the city, which could increase the cost and difficulty of buying or developing nearby property.The...
Apr 21 2017 // Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter says residents facing possible flooding in some areas of the state aren’t taking what he calls a potential disaster seriously. About a dozen state and federal officials at a...
Apr 10 2017 // Federal officials say the Boise River in Idaho that’s already past flood stage will be raised again as flood insurance sales spike in the region.The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
Mar 29 2017 // The world’s largest maker of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), China’s DJI, has proposed an electronic identification framework for UAS that would allow authorities in the United States to identify drone owners...
Mar 17 2017 // A former Ada County, Idaho, employee who filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging he was retaliated against and wrongly fired has been awarded $1.7 million.Rich Wright’s attorney said a jury awarded the money to his...
Mar 13 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-based Burkhardt Consulting LLC.Burkhardt joins Alliant’s employee benefits group, with the firm continuing to service clients from its Coeur...
Mar 1 2017 // Florida health officials who oversee the medical marijuana program have started processing identification card applications for patients and caregivers.The cards, which are issued through the Office of Compassionate Use,...
Feb 6 2017 // Investigators from the Idaho State Fire Marshal’s Office looking into a fire last week at a local business in Council believe the blaze could have been caused by heavy snowfall.Many parts of Idaho have received...
Jan 24 2017 // Idaho Department of Insurance Director Dean Cameron has been named as vice chair of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Life Insurance and Annuities Committee for 2017. Director Cameron was elected...
Jan 20 2017 // Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has signed an executive order aimed at protecting the state’s computer networks from hackers.The order signed this week creates a director of Information Security position,...
Nov 18 2016 // What would happen to an industry that loses one-fourth or more of its employee base?Idaho’s agriculture industry, and particularly its farming sector, might run head-on into that hypothetical question if...
Nov 8 2016 // The widow of a man killed in a trench collapse in Boise, Idaho has filed a precursor to a lawsuit against several government agencies. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that a lack of training by...
Oct 27 2016 // The College of Southern Idaho has agreed to pay a former vice president $650,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit.The Times-News reported in a story on Tuesday that the settlement with Edit Szanto was made through the...
Oct 17 2016 // Two major french fry producers are facing a court battle over a new twisty fry design.The Times-News reported the J.R. Simplot company of Boise, Idaho filed a patent infringement lawsuit against McCain Foods in U.S....
Oct 11 2016 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has received a proposal from the National Council on Compensation Insurance for an overall rate drop of 1.2 percent percent in workers’ compensation insurance to become effective...
Sep 2 2016 // An Idaho family is suing a nurse and the health care company he works for after their 7-month-old baby died when given the wrong medication at a Twin Falls hospital.Chance and Tiffany Elliott filed the wrongful death...