Both of the Senate Democrats who serve on JFAC spoke in reluctant support of the bill, while bemoaning the cuts to the state’s two largest universities. JFAC has repeatedly questioned university ...

In one budget bill, lawmakers required the Idaho Commission for Libraries to swear by affidavit that school libraries aren’t ...

The Idaho Legislature’s powerful budget committee redrafted two failed budgets on Wednesday afternoon and sent signals that a ...

There was little discussion at the budget-setting meeting Wednesday, other than some confusion by members over the difference between the new budget and the one that died on the Senate floor. The only ...

Boise State University and University of Idaho are each poised to take a $2 million hit to their budget next year – the ...

Idaho’s budget-writing committee has backed down from trying to force the Ada County Highway District to do certain projects ...

Lobbyists for the UI and Boise State attended Tuesday morning’s JFAC hearing, but afterward, they had no immediate comment on ...

Democrats support a common-sense tax policy that would relieve pressure on the majority of Idaho families trying to make ends ...

State budget writers on Tuesday approved seven additional full-time staff for the Idaho Tax Commission to handle the extra work related to the newly passed school choice tax ...

All of the debate bemoaned that the budget’s inclusion of a $2 million cut each to the University of Idaho and Boise State ...

Today is the 78th day of the 2025 legislative session, which began on Jan. 6. There is no requirement to adjourn Idaho ...