BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 3 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2024: Thursday, Attorney General Raul Labrador announced a $350 million national settlement with Publicis Health to resolve investigations into the global marketing and communications firm's role in the prescription opioid crisis. Idaho will receive nearly $1.6 million from the settlement to help address the opioid crisis. "The opioid crisis has been a national tragedy of greed and expl more PR

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 3 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2024: Yesterday, the Attorney General's office successfully defeated The Satanic Temple's challenge to Idaho's Defense of Life Act. The Satanic Temple claimed a constitutionally protected right for its female members to ceremonially abort their babies as part of a Satanic ritual that involves the eerie invocation: "By my body, my blood, by my will, it is done." A federal court dismissed  more PR

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 3 -- The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news on Feb. 2, 2024: The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today announced the award of a $267,500 to four drinking water and wastewater systems to help the facilities evaluate system deficiencies and determine necessary upgrades. The funding was made available through Governor Brad Little's Leading Idaho initiative. "Families, farmers, ranchers, and all Idaho residents rely on clean, effi more PR

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 2 -- The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news: The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) seeks comment on a proposed settlement action with the city of Parma. On April 6, 2023, DEQ filed a complaint in Canyon County against the city of Parma for violations of the Clean Water Act at the city's Publicly Owned Treatment Works in Parma, Idaho, which discharges municipal wastewater into Sand Hollow Creek, a tributary of the Snake River. T more PR