Idaho

Three years after the worst months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Idaho lawmakers are pushing once again to ban mask mandates implemented in the interest of public health.

The Idaho Republican Party – the most dominant political force the state has known – says it needs help paying its rent.

A Boise State University public policy survey found that the majority of Idaho residents prefer abortion policies that are more lax than the state’s current restrictions. The university published the results of its annual public policy survey on Friday. It came as state officials and stakeholders are unsure whether President-elect Donald Trump will dismiss an ongoing lawsuit the Department of ...

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed a prominent Idaho businessman whose Sawtooth ranch airstrip has been at the center of controversy and an ongoing lawsuit to serve as Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment at the Department of Agriculture.

The latest proposal to repeal Idaho’s longstanding ban on armed private militias received approval on Friday for future consideration this legislative session. Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Moscow, introduced a bill that would repeal a law dating to 1927 that prohibits a “body of men” other than the Idaho Army National Guard from associating as a “military company” or parading “in public with firearms ...

State Rep. Chris Bruce, a Republican from Kuna who also serves on Kuna’s City Council, says he has seen it happen. A whistleblower flags that the mayor or a city council member is doing something illegal or corrupt, but he or she doesn’t have anywhere to turn. The city’s police chief reports to the mayor, and in some cases, the county prosecutor may have a close working relationship with city leaders.

Bryan Kohberger’s defense team is considering whether to assert a legal precedent set in another high-profile Idaho murder case in one more push to drop the death penalty as a possible sentence at trial.

Many flags for ideological causes would be banned in public schools under a proposed Idaho law, in addition to those for LGBTQ+ Pride and political parties. Rep. Ted Hill, R-Eagle, introduced House Bill 10 on Tuesday to ban most flags in state-funded public classrooms. Teachers could still display the U.S. flag, state flags, flags of many foreign countries and some others, according to a list ...

It was an ordinary day at West Boise’s Fairmont Pool when Kristen Seeger saw a “green cloud” and detected an odd smell emanating from a shed.