In this image provided by the White House, President Joe Biden listens during a secure video call with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the White House Situation Room on Monday, March 7, 2022, in Washington. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP) Adam Schultz PA WASHINGTON […]
Freedom Boat Club announces UK expansion Freedom Boat Club, the world’s largest boat club operator and a division of Brunswick Corporation, announced its first Idaho franchise representing the 34and US state of having a Freedom Boat Club location. The new territory, FBC of North Idaho, will open its first location in Couer d’Alene, known as […]
Boise State University offers free COVID-19 vaccines outside Albertsons Stadium. Students and university staff will continue to follow the protocols that were in place last semester when they returned to class. Sarah A. Miller smiler@idahostatesman.com Boise State students and staff will still be required to wear masks and follow other COVID-19 mitigation protocols when they […]
FILE – Students walk on the campus of Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pennsylvania, October 21, 2020. The Biden administration on Wednesday, December 22, 2021 extended a moratorium on student loans that allowed millions of Americans postpone paying down debt during the pandemic. As part of the action, payments on federal student loans will […]
DL Evans Bank Donates $ 5,000 to Oakley HS Track The South Burley branch of DL Evans Bank contributed through the Cassia County Foundation to the installation of a new track for Oakley High School. The upgrade provides a safer environment for the students in the school and members of the community who will use […]
The Idaho Community Foundation has awarded eight Forever Idaho South Central grants totaling over $ 36,000 in Blaine County. The foundation said it had redesigned its grants based on feedback from its nonprofit partners, which resulted in larger awards for community organizations in Idaho. “Giving larger grants with fewer restrictions on how to spend them […]
Glanbia Nutritionals TWIN FALLS – After an extremely difficult year for local communities due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Glanbia Nutritionals has continued to give back, recently donating $ 50,000 to Valley House Homeless Shelter for its new Beyond Shelter project . “Glanbia Nutritionals is proud to be a positive business manager employing over 800 […]
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) – The board of directors of a community college in northern Idaho fired the president of the school in what a board member who opposed the decision called for 100% retaliation. The board with a 3-2 vote on Wednesday fired Rick MacLennan, ending his five-year term. Board chairman Todd Banducci and […]
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COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) – The board of directors of a community college in northern Idaho fired the president of the school in what a board member who opposed the decision called for 100% retaliation. The board with a 3-2 vote on Wednesday fired Rick MacLennan, ending his five-year term. Board chairman Todd Banducci and […]
BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) – Members of the Association of Idaho Cities (AIC) elected Chubbuck Mayor Kevin England as president for 2021-2022 at the June 17 banquet on the 74e AIC Annual Conference in Boise. Idaho Falls Mayor Rebecca Casper as third vice president. The Idaho Association of Cities was formed in 1947 and is a […]
AMMON – A Texas-based restaurant chain is opening its first location in eastern Idaho this week. Super Chix will open to the public at 11 a.m. on Wednesday at 2671 East Sunnyside Road in Ammon inside the new Hillcrest Plaza. Vice President of Operations Nate Kenyon told EastIdahoNews.com Wednesday’s opening will go without fanfare, but […]
Grants provided by Project Neighborly – Idaho will range from $ 250 to $ 5,000. BOISE, Idaho – The Idaho Community Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 1988, has announced it will launch a new grant that will attempt to “foster inclusion and inspire good neighborliness in Ada counties and Canyon “. The program, Neighbor project […]
Amid COVID-19 pandemic, community college enrollments across the country fell 10% from fall 2019 to fall 2020, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. Locally, the region’s community colleges were not spared by the dwindling number. A total of 8,400 students attended Spokane Community College last fall, down almost 4,100 – or about 33% – from […]