House lawmakers are calling on their Senate colleagues to follow their lead and pass a bill extending the statute of limitations for prosecuting pandemic-era unemployment fraud.

Pete Johnson’s (DFL – Duluth) House File 3023. The legislation solely focuses on extending Unemployment Insurance benefits to impacted Iron Range miners. The bill was to extend unemployment ...

University of Idaho Extension educator Grant Loomis has noticed an increasing number of Blaine County farmers have been letting their straw rot in the field after grain harvest rather than baling ...

However, the Senate has yet to take up a companion bill needed to cement the extension ... as much as $135 billion in pandemic unemployment insurance programs was lost to fraud during the pandemic.