BOISE, Idaho, July 17 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: Attorney General Raul Labrador joined a 22-state coalition of state attorneys general in a letter calling on Congressional Leaders to support and pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility ("SAVE") Act. This commonsense bill will strengthen our electoral process by upholding the rule of law and prohibiting those aliens who are ineligible to vote from doing so. "Our entire nation has watched t  more

BOISE, Idaho, July 19 -- Gov. Brad Little, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on July 18, 2024: Governor Brad Little commented today on the progress of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer (ESPA) Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) Advisory Committee to create consensus-driven solutions that meet the needs of Idaho water users. The advisory committee is tasked with crafting a groundwater management plan for the Eastern Snake Plain to improve the aquifer's long-term health. The committee met  more

BOISE, Idaho, July 16 -- The Idaho Department of Education issued the following news release on July 15, 2024: Districts and charters in Idaho can now apply for funding to support a School Resource Officer (SRO). Local education agencies who currently lack resources to support an SRO position are encouraged to apply on or before Wednesday, August 14. The $1.5 million SRO grant was allocated by the Idaho Legislature from the state's Millenium Fund and will be administered by the Idaho Departmen  more

BOISE, Idaho, July 20 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following letter on July 19, 2024: * * * Dear Friends, There are critical moments and images in American history that we remember clearly. For many before us, it was the bombing of Pearl Harbor or the assassination of JFK in Dallas. For the next generation, it may have been the moon landing or the Challenger disaster that many of us watched in classrooms. For all of us, we remember the towers falling on 9/11 or the fl  more

BOISE, Idaho, July 15 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following statement on July 13, 2024: * * * "Let us join today as Americans in praying for President Donald Trump and our nation. We cannot let our country be torn apart by political violence or disregard for the principles that make our Republic great. We owe it to those who have sacrificed so much for our nation, to preserve our freedoms for the next generation and generations to come. We must rededicate ourselves to  more

BOISE, Idaho, July 17 -- Gov. Brad Little, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on July 16, 2024: Governor Brad Little announced today that 9,180 Idaho students will receive a final award for Idaho LAUNCH, the state's expanded grant program that provides new opportunities for graduating high school seniors to pursue in-demand careers. LAUNCH offers graduating high school seniors grants covering 80 percent, up to $8,000, of the cost of enrolling in an education or training program after h  more

POCATELLO, Idaho, July 19 -- Idaho State University issued the following news: The Department of Anthropology and Languages at Idaho State University is pleased to announce the introduction of a new undergraduate course, SPAN 2221: Spanish for Heritage Speakers, to be taught by Assistant Professor Jose Eduardo Villalobos Graillet. This marks the inaugural offering of the course at ISU, with the objective of providing support to bilingual students who were raised speaking both Spanish and Engli  more

BOISE, Idaho, July 12 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following letter: * * * Dear Friends, This past couple of weeks saw a whirlwind of activity in the Supreme Court on several issues where Idaho played both large and small roles in many of these landmark decisions. As our office has been involved in so much federal litigation attacking the Biden Administration's overreach, a frequent criticism leveled by liberals, left-wing column-writers, and some in the corporate me  more

COCKEYSVILLE, Maryland, July 17 -- Sinclair, a media company and a provider of local news and sports, issued the following news release: SEATTLE - NewsON, the nation's largest, free multiplatform streaming service for local news content, is pleased to announce it has added eight new stations to its lineup in partnership with News Press & Gazette (NPG). The following NPG stations are now available to stream via NewsON: * KION - Monterey, CA * KESQ - Palm Springs, CA * KEYT - Santa Barbara, C  more