By Marissa Bodna, LocalNews8.com

BOISE, Idaho — The so-called “nullification bill” Republican state legislators worked so hard to pass is now dead.

Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter vetoed it in favor of his own executive order, which blocks portions of President Barack Obama’s …

(Reuters) – The Idaho state teachers union said on Friday it may ask voters to overturn a just-passed law that curtails public school teachers’ collective bargaining rights.

The law ends tenure and removes issues like workload and class size from contract …

By Kyle Trygstad, Roll Call Staff

Rep. Walt Minnick was defeated for re-election after serving just one term representing his state’s western Congressional district, and the Blue Dog tells Roll Call he’s gone for good. Looking ahead at …

Rasmussen Reports

Incumbent Republican C.L. “Butch” Otter still leads the race for Idaho’s next governor.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Idaho finds that Otter holds a sizable 52% to 36% advantage over his Democratic challenger, …

By Shane D’Aprile -The Hill

Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho), the only member of his party to receive the backing of the Tea Party Express rejected the group’s endorsement Monday citing the controversy over a blog post written by …

Joseph Weber, The Washington Times

Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick, seeking to buck the odds and the national mood in his conservative Idaho district, was bolstered this week by a strong new fund-raising report and an upgrade in his re-election …

By Joseph Weber, The Washington Times

On paper, Walt Minnick should be toast.

The Idaho Democrat barely squeaked into the House two years ago, winning 51 percent of the vote in a conservative district that preferred John …