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Feb. 4—Milo Warnock was expected to serve at least two years in prison for a DUI. Instead, he received a death sentence. Warnock, a Lewiston native and Boise resident at the time of his sentencing, was killed Dec. 10 at Idaho State Correctional Center in Kuna. His death highlights a number of issues at the Kuna prison complex, which is operated by the Idaho Department of Correction. Some of ...

A 27-year-old Emmett man has been identified as one of five U.S. Marine Corps members killed in a helicopter crash in California earlier this week.  

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Idaho Statesman. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Idaho Republican leaders introduced a bill Thursday that would provide $1.5 billion in new funding over 10 years for school districts to repair and replace their aging and overcrowded school buildings — a ...

BOISE – Fights within the Idaho GOP boiled over Thursday as lawmakers ousted a senior member of Republican leadership.

To most people in Shoshone County, former Sheriff Mike Gunderson was more than law enforcement – he was a family man, a friend and someone who always took time out of his day to say hello.

Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, told a legislative committee Thursday that she’s worried about the possibility that people are eating other people.

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation that combined aid to Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies with funding and policy changes intended to improve border security, rejecting a compromise bill the parties had spent months negotiating – at the behest of Republicans.

A law firm representing the families of two of the three men who died when a building under construction near Boise’s Jackson Jet Center collapsed last week is demanding answers from authorities and promised to ensure that the grieving families see “justice.” Serna & Associates, a personal injury and product liability law firm, has been retained to represent the families and estates of Mario ...

This is a breaking news story. Check back to idahostatesman.com for updates. To sign up for breaking news alerts, click here. Idaho House lawmakers passed a bill defining “gender” as synonymous with “sex” Wednesday, furthering what transgender, nonbinary and intersex Idahoans have said is an effort to erase them. House Bill 421, sponsored by Rep. Julianne Young, R-Blackfoot, defines gender as a ...

SANDPOINT – Dave Bowman, a man who has been banned from meetings of the Bonner County Board of Commissioners, was arrested again Tuesday after refusing to leave another commissioner meeting.

 Cornerstone Cottage, the Idaho youth treatment home featured in several recent InvestigateWest articles detailing alleged child abuse and neglect that took place there, has closed.

Twelve of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee’s 20 members rebelled against the legislative committee’s co-chairs on Friday, going around committee leaders to pass new, standalone budgets that are in direct competition with the bare-bones maintenance budgets JFAC passed Jan. 16.