Idaho

When Bill Hughes of Coeur d’Alene sat down at his computer Wednesday night, the last thing he expected to see was that he had won a $575,000 house.

Days after Idaho made the switch to a firing squad for executions, two Idaho death row prisoners next in line to be put to death sued the state prison system, saying its director withheld information about how she settled on the specifics for carrying out the method.ate district court against Idaho Department ...

A Boise attorney representing an Idaho mother charged with murder in the deaths of her 18-month-old twins says that the children died as a result of reactions from vaccinations and that the woman did “absolutely nothing” to harm her boy and girl. Joe Filicetti told the Idaho Statesman in a phone interview Wednesday that Andrea Renee Shaw did not suffocate her children — an indictment and the ...

On June 25, the nonprofit Friends of Minidoka presented a virtual progress update on restoration efforts that’ll bring history to life at the Minidoka National Historic Site. Friends of Minidoka receives grant funding An American flag flies at the Minidoka National Historic Site on Friday, July 3, 2026, where more than 13,000 Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. The camp still ...

Investigators identified the human remains found near Waha in March as 29-year-old Allan Sloan, according to a Nez Perce County Sheriff's Office news release distributed Wednesday.

On a good day, Assistant Fire Chief James Trumble said the Kuna Rural Fire District has six firefighters on call. From the station on the corner of Boise Street and North Linder Road, those six firefighters can operate two fire engines, which serve an area of approximately 110 square miles. “That’s on a good day,” Trumble said. “If somebody takes a day off, gets sick, or gets injured, and I ...

Jul. 3—State Medicaid agencies are concerned that many sick and disabled enrollees will lose their coverage because the Trump administration is narrowing the definition of who is "medically frail" enough to get an exemption from new work requirements. Under the tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed a year ago, states that have expanded Medicaid to cover more adults under the ...

Can an undocumented immigrant get probation, which typically requires people who have committed a crime to comply with all the laws of the U.S.? That question was central to an Idaho Supreme Court opinion from earlier this year. In that case, a man named Jesus Agustin Perez Garcia was found with marijuana during a 2023 Eastern Idaho traffic stop, during which he tried to hide a meth pipe under ...

Boise State University has a new president. The Idaho State Board of Education on Wednesday voted to hire David Hahn, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona, to serve as Boise State’s new president. The hire comes over a year after former President Marlene Tromp took a new job at the University of Vermont and left the university. During a board meeting Wednesday, David ...

Two major changes to Idaho's vehicle registration system take effect July 1, eliminating annual registration stickers and transitioning drivers to permanent license plates.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited the Idaho National Laboratory on Thursday after the first new-age nuclear reactor to switch on in more than 40 years did so at INL earlier this month.

BOISE – Idaho Republicans want to completely eliminate property taxes.

An Idaho man argues in a pair of tort claims that Idaho law enforcement agencies are violating state law by letting an artificial intelligence security company train its algorithm with data collected in Caldwell, Wilder and other cities. A tort claim is a possible precursor to a lawsuit. Tyler Cain, of Wilder, said that Caldwell’s data-sharing agreement with tech company Flock Safety goes ...

Jun. 19—MOSCOW — A Moscow food pantry has built a commercial kitchen that it believes can help small businesses and reduce food waste on the Palouse. Inland Oasis held a ribbon cutting with the Moscow Chamber of Commerce on Thursday to celebrate the new kitchen at its location on 730 W. Pullman Rd. The kitchen was made possible with $12,000 in fundraising. Anneke Jette, who manages the ...