Idaho

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Dirk Kempthorne, the charismatic former Idaho governor who went on to lead the U.S. Department of the Interior, died Friday night of complications from late-stage cancer. He was 74. Kempthorne, who also served as a U.S. senator from Idaho and as mayor of Boise, announced his diagnosis in March 2025. He called it maybe the “challenge of my lifetime,” but pledged to fight it “head-on” and ...

The pivotal piece of evidence that tied Bryan Kohberger to the Moscow crime scene changed hands several times among law enforcement before it arrived for lab testing, and may have been challenged at his murder trial over its documentation.

After Congress failed to extend deeper subsidies for Americans’ health insurance, an estimated 30,000 more Idahoans who had insurance are likely to be uninsured this year.

A Boisean’s simple act-of-kindness-gone-viral is now the inspiration for a coupon code coming to Domino’s nationwide. With a new code rolling out April 30, Domino’s and The Coca-Cola Company are teaming up to honor Dan Simpson, a 68-year-old pizza delivery driver, for going the extra mile on one recent Friday night delivery in Boise. But as Simpson recalls it, it was really only an extra few ...

Idaho voters will likely see a hot-button political topic on their ballots this November as the organizers behind a proposed ballot initiative to carve out reproductive health care rights — including the right to abortion — say they believe they’ve met qualifications two weeks ahead of the state deadline. Idahoans United for Women and Families, a nonprofit that formed in 2024 in response to ...

An Idaho elected official has been accused of holding a woman at knifepoint and stabbing a girl during an altercation with an Ada County family on the Payette River last summer, according to a civil lawsuit the family filed against him and two other men. Boise County Commissioner Darrell “Lindy” Lindstrom and two others are named as defendants in the lawsuit, which was filed in Boise County on ...

BOISE, Idaho — A Texas woman ordered to pay $10 million in damages to a University of Idaho professor who she repeatedly accused on social media of orchestrating the 2022 Moscow college students murders has appealed the jury’s award in federal court. Ashley Guillard, 41, of Houston, filed a notice of appeal this week in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in response to the verdict in the ...

Peering over a cliff at Farragut State Park, Carol Mendoza was stunned at what she saw below her, partially submerged in Lake Pend Oreille.

The flag saga continues. Some Idaho lawmakers have tried to bring down Boise’s Pride flag since last year, ultimately succeeding this year after the Legislature added a fine for violating a 2025 law that banned Pride and many other flags on government property. Boise’s City Council had made the Pride flag an official flag to get around the 2025 law. Rep. Ted Hill, R-Eagle, brought two bills ...

Tracey Delyea was watching the Antiques Roadshow at her family’s cabin in Coeur d’Alene last summer when an ad caught her attention.