Midvale Community Library

Despite concerns about the Idaho Meth Project's effectiveness, the program is on track to receive another $500,000 in fiscal year 2011.

Jon Marvel gets no tears from ranching community over his legal troubles.

Two Boise State University graduate students, who are National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellows, demonstrate how a volcano erupts to fifth-graders at Garfield Elementary. Get news and information about your child's school

Citizens can report suspicions through Crime Stoppers, thanks to a partnership between the Boise Police Department Gang Unit and the Boise Area Crime Stoppers. Report tips at 343-COPS or www.343COPs.com (click on the red STOP sign), or at www.boisepolice.org (click on the Crime Stoppers logo).

ON TODAY'S AGENDA

BOISE - University of Idaho President Duane Nellis wrote in his weekly alumni letter that a large portion of the money to help launch a third-year law program came from 1954 graduates Frank and Harriet Shrontz, who recently gave $300,000.

Idaho lawmakers have approved a plan to charge premiums to families who get the government-covered health care for their children.

Marriage Licenses issued by Ada County

Charisa Coulter returned to Boise Saturday night to a crowd of friends, a bouquet of yellow flowers and the strains of "Amazing Grace."

When Monica and Louis Bremmer - she's from Argentina, he's from Mexico - were looking for a place to open their restaurant, they wanted a free-standing building where they could introduce a new product to Boiseans - empanadas.

For 25 years, Olivia Craven has overseen how felons are paroled in Idaho, leaving prison to complete sentences under community supervision.

Since 1956, The Arc, founded by a group of parents and community members, has been helping people with disabilities enjoy educational and job opportunities.

Q: The airport's expanded economy lot looks finished, but the gate remains locked. They said it would be open by the holidays, but they didn't say what year. When will it open?

Canadian company still hopes to open mine but it continues to have problems with arsenic from past mining

There was no mistaking that the mouth-watering scents that permeated from Ruby Hall's cast-iron skillet on Sunday afternoons would result in one of her signature family feasts of fried chicken, savory gravy, fluffy potatoes and a homemade apple pie. When she wasn't in the kitchen creating comfort food she was making other comforts for people such as hand-painted quilts, crochets bedspreads and baby blankets and bonnets that were donated to hospitals in Emmett . Ruby died Jan. 27 in Caldwell. She was 91.

BOISE - A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says 9.3 percent of Idaho's veterans were without jobs in 2009. That percentage was higher than the national rate of 8.1 percent.

CHALLIS - Margaret Churchwell, 48, was traveling north in a Jeep Grand Cherokee when her vehicle left the right side of U.S. 93 Saturday morning, Idaho State Police said. She overcorrected, crossed into the southbound lane and struck a delivery van driven by Gregory Cooper, 43, of Boise, ISP said.

State Sen. Shirley McKague, R-Meridian, filed Friday for an eighth legislative term, setting up a potentially interesting race in the May 25 GOP primary.

The legislation approved Friday by the Senate State Affairs Committee also calls for slightly tougher sanctions for employers who knowingly hire workers with phony papers, making that a misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in a county jail.

District officials want to hear from parents and community members about a proposal to change the kindergarten schedule next school year.