ID Government

Idaho residents could vote to restore access to abortion and protect reproductive health care after a nonprofit took the first step Thursday toward a 2026 citizen ballot initiative. Idahoans United for Women and Families filed four petitions with the Secretary of State’s Office for review, each of which would create an initiative with varying degrees of protection for abortion rights based on ...

Steve Symms, a Republican who represented Idaho for four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and two terms in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. He was 86.

A coalition aiming to end the Idaho Republican Party’s closed primary system and implement ranked choice voting faces another hurdle for its November ballot initiative: a lawsuit from Attorney General Raúl Labrador. Labrador petitioned the Idaho Supreme Court on Wednesday to throw out the measure that earlier this month secured enough signatures to qualify for the Nov. 5 general election. The ...

Mayor of Coeur d'Alene Jim Hammond resigned, citing his ongoing battle with cancer and his desire to spend his remaining time with family.

On Thursday morning, four protesters sat in lawn chairs at the Idaho Capitol Annex amid the sweltering heat. Nine tents, some with pro-Palestine messages written on them, stood in the grass. A chalkboard said it was day 70 of the people’s liberated university, the name for the demonstration.

A ballot initiative to end Idaho’s closed primary elections and create a ranked-choice voting system for the general election has enough signatures to appear on the ballot for the Nov. 5 general election, the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office announced Wednesday.

The Coeur d’Alene City Council, with approval from the mayor, unanimously passed an ordinance Tuesday night that makes hateful acts illegal, following a string of recent high-profile incidents in the city.

Idaho residents should be prepared for some new take laws taking effect Monday. A proposed bill must pass through the Idaho House and Senate before being signed into law by Gov. Brad Little, but unless it contains an emergency clause or specific date of enactment, it comes into effect at the beginning of July. State legislators this year approved a slew of new laws to be implemented Monday, ...

Forty-eight years ago, when Rakesh Mohan moved from India to the United States, he sought out to be a chemist.

SANDPOINT – The ultrasound in February that found a mass growing in her uterus and abnormally thick uterine lining brought Jonell Anderson more than anxiety over diagnosis and treatment.

For the first time in seven years, Idaho has a new National Guard commanding general.

In 1999, John and Tina Hough stayed at the historic bed-and-breakfast in Coeur d'Alene that was converted out of a school named for a previous visit by President Theodore Roosevelt.