Idaho

Dec. 13—The Moscow Arts Commission is seeking an artist to beautify the Moscow Water Building that was the target of vandalism in May. The commission is recommending the City Council approve a request for qualifications from artists interested in creating a mural on the building located at Jackson and A streets. In May, a previous mural painted on that building was vandalized with graffiti. ...

Idaho County sheriff’s investigators are continuing to search for clues about a fire that destroyed the advertising kiosk along U.S. Highway 95 at the entrance to the city of White Bird.

Paul Rytting listened as a woman, voice quavering, told him her story. When she was a child, her father, a former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had routinely slipped into bed with her while he was aroused, she said. It was March 2017 and Rytting offered his sympathies as 31-year-old Chelsea Goodrich spoke. A Utah attorney and head of the church’s Risk Management Division, Rytting had spent about 15 years protecting the organization, widely known as the Mormon church, from costly claims, including sexual abuse lawsuits.

The federal government has allocated about $14.5 million in federal funding for wildfire resilience and fuel reduction in Idaho, officials with the U.S. Department of Interior said in a news release issued Thursday.

OLYMPIA – Washington and a group of other states have filed a court brief supporting a group of students aiming to block an Idaho law that bars transgender students from using school bathrooms consistent with their gender identity.

Nearly three years ago, thousands of people stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to try to interfere with the certification of the 2020 presidential Election. Prosecutors have charged more than 1,000 people throughout the country with crimes related to that day’s events, including six Idahoans. Now the U.S. Attorney’s Office has announced the arrest of another man with ties to the Gem ...

Dec. 1—RICHLAND, Wash. — A 20-year-old Lapwai man charged in connection with the shooting death of Elias "Suge" Spencer waived an extradition hearing Thursday and will be transported to Idaho, a court spokesperson said. William O. Eyle appeared in the Eastern District of Washington in the Tri-Cities District Court, accompanied by a federal defender. No bond and no timelines were set, the ...

A new report released Tuesday found children and mothers are dying in Idaho at an increasing rate.