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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho House has overwhelmingly approved a plan to increase Idaho's grocery tax credit by $10 per person. House Majority Leader Mike Moyle from Star is backing the proposal. His previous sweeping tax plan to raise the fuel tax, lower income taxes on high-income earners and eliminate the grocery tax all together died in the Senate last week.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — After 88 days in the Idaho Legislature, lawmakers have played a rarely-used card to settle the state's increasingly contentious transportation funding shortfall -- a conference committee. The six-person joint panel met today to discuss options on how to make some sort of dent in Idaho's $262 million annual transportation deficit.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho House has unanimously approved a new task force to recommend changes to the state's piecemeal broadband system. The action comes after a judge ruled the state's $60 million public schools broadband contract illegal, leaving individual school districts to find their own replacements for broadband access.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho employees at Micron Technology Inc. have selected the Women's and Children's Alliance as their 2015 Charity of Choice. Micron said today the selection means the Alliance will receive a $20,000 donation as well as volunteer support for a full year. The Boise-based Alliance provides help with transitional housing, counseling and legal advocacy for victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault.