Lawmakers

Foes of a plan by an oil company to haul more than 200 oversized loads of refining equipment along a two-lane north Idaho highway are asking the state to reconsider a decision to permit the shipments. Earlier this month, the Idaho Transportation Department issued a permit allowing a unit of ExxonMobil to do a test run along U...

Republican Representative Steve Thayn introduced the bill Tuesday in the House Education Committee. Thayn says by cutting two-thirds of the roughly $50 million spent on kindergarten each year, the state could save more than $30 million, money that could be funneled back into the state general fund and spent filling in public education budget gaps in grades one through 12...