Idaho

Idaho’s labor force is making gains in the national rankings. Though still near the middle of the pack in statewide rankings for median income, the state saw a faster income growth rate than all other states and Washington, D.C., coming in at 15.5% over the past five years. The state with the next-fastest income growth was Arizona at 12.3%, according to the Idaho Department of Labor. The ...

A Boise-area company that makes french fries has been targeted by an activist investor. Jana Partners, an investment firm with a 20-year record of leveraging its shares in various public companies to take over or force changes, has its eyes set on Eagle-based potato manufacturing giant Lamb Weston. The activist has built a stake of over 5% in Lamb Weston and has been pushing the company to ...

Some Idaho government employees are already using generative artificial intelligence.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation announced Tuesday that they will update an environmental study on the management of federal dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers.

Karen Laramie, mother of University of Idaho student homicide victim Madison Mogen, spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday, saying in an interview with the “Today” show that the pain of her daughter’s loss more than two years ago remains top of mind. But she’s accepted that this is the reality in which she now lives. “It’s real, but I know where the girls are,” Laramie said. “And faith is ...

The reconstituted Idaho Maternal Mortality Review Committee held its second meeting Friday in Boise and moved closer to releasing an upcoming annual report on maternal deaths.

Prosecutors in the capital murder case against Bryan Kohberger countered claims from the defense that a raft of evidence against the accused killer should be withheld from trial because it was improperly gathered by police during the investigation. Led by Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson, state attorneys argued in more than a dozen legal briefs — most of them sealed — that the evidence in ...

Dec. 13—Nicholas D. Umphenour stood silent rather than enter a plea at his arraignment Thursday. Umphenour, 29, appeared with public defenders Brian Marx and Bryan Hall; Marx appeared at the Nez Perce County Courthouse and Hall appeared on Zoom at the Nez Perce County Jail with Umphenour. Second District Judge Michelle Evans read over the grand jury indictment from June 10, which alleges that ...

Soon after the State Board of Education began talking about restricting diversity, equity and inclusion programs on campuses, Nick Koenig and other University of Idaho students began fanning out.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is asking for another $108 million to pay Medicaid mental health contractors.

An 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in a case that will determine whether doctors can perform emergency abortion care without criminal prosecution in Idaho, a state with a near-total abortion ban.

Another complaint has been filed against the state’s prison and parole system over allegations the agency “failed to properly supervise” a former probation officer who has been accused of forcing a woman he supervised “into engaging in sexual activity.” In February, Ada County prosecutors charged Saif Sabah Hasan Al Anbagi, who worked as a probation and parole officer in the Boise area, with ...