The first time Jose Arriaga, of Nampa, failed the journeyman electrician's exam, he blamed himself for not studying enough. The second time he failed it, he thought maybe it was because his English ...

John Calamaro, an Idaho journeyman electrician, works inside a commercial business Tuesday in Meridian. “We’re booming here in the Treasure Valley, and we don’t have enough journeymen,” he said, ...