Idaho

If passed, the citizen-led ballot measure would establish a “top-four” primary system where all the candidates appear on a single primary ballot, regardless of party affiliation. The four candidates who earn the most votes in the primary would then advance to the general election ballot. Proposition 1 would also create a ranked-choice voting system in the general election, where voters have the option to rank candidates on the ballot in order of preference. 

A Kootenai County magistrate judge with numerous reprimands who appeared in court dressed as Darth Vader on Halloween is up for re-election in November. A campaign led by a former litigant of a divorce and custody case he oversaw in 2012 hopes to remove him.

A day after Idaho prison’s system advised that it is again ready to perform a lethal injection, an Ada County judge issued the latest death warrant for Thomas Creech, the state’s longest-serving death row prisoner, and scheduled him for another execution. Creech, 74, who has been incarcerated for nearly a half-century, is now set to be executed on Nov. 13. If fulfilled, the execution would be ...

The Spirit Lake Fire Protection District is asking voters to approve a levy override on the November ballot for the first time since the district was created in 1978.

A GoFundMe page has been established for Benjamin Mogen, the father of one of the four University of Idaho student homicide victims, so he can travel to Boise next summer to attend the murder trial of the man charged with killing his daughter.

Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with killing four University of Idaho students, should indeed be subject to the death penalty if he is convicted of first-degree murder, state prosecutors argued in newly filed court documents. The prosecution laid out its stance why Idaho’s capital punishment laws should apply in the high-profile case, which is now scheduled for trial in August 2025. The trove ...

The Northern Lakes Fire District is facing a critical moment as it asks voters to approve a temporary levy renewal to pay to keep 13 firefighter-paramedics on staff and keep one of the district’s three fire stations from closing.

A year ago, University of Idaho alumnus Victor Ferral recalls seeing a video from the University of Tennessee, where football games were being broadcast in Spanish.

A wildfire is approaching your house. Authorities are directing you and your neighbors to prepare. Any minute, you may get a message like this one the Boise Fire Department sent to some Harris Ranch-area residents on Friday as the Valley Fire drew near: “Pack your emergency items in your vehicle and be ready to evacuate.” You pack your toothbrush and supplies, and if time still allows, you ...