Legislation to increase penalties for a person who attacks an Idaho Parks and Recreation employee authorized to enforce state laws is heading to Gov. Brad Little

Legislation to allow Idaho theaters on the National Register of Historic Places to obtain licenses to sell beer and wine has been signed into law by Gov. Brad Little. Among others, the Panida Theater in Sandpoint will now be able to serve beer and wine during movie showings without obtaining a special license.

A Senate committee on Wednesday recommended creation of a panel to monitor how federal laws affect Idaho’s sovereignty and possibly to have it combined with another bill aimed at creating a council on federal lands.

The “North Pacific Highway” route over the Bitterroot Range was about to be moved several miles south, so that it would cross the divide at Lookout Pass. This was the main road between Taft, Montana, and Wallace, Idaho, roughly similar to today’s Interstate 90

Dozens of people showed up at McEuen Park for a slushy snowball skirmish Saturday before the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Winter soldiers young and old let snowballs fly at the free event.

Idaho received its long-awaited steelhead fishery permit from the federal government Friday, ending months of uncertainty over the future of the ongoing steelhead season.

The Idaho State Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to allow the University of Idaho to move forward with plans to construct a new basketball arena on the Moscow campus – as long as the school’s new president agrees to the project, once that person is named.

The University of Idaho could boast the largest research dairy in the country within the next decade.

Coeur d’Alene wants to host the world’s largest snowball fight this weekend. Bill Greenwood, Coeur d’Alene Parks director, expects only a few hundred people to show up to the planned snowball fight at 3 p.m. Saturday at McEuen Park in downtown Coeur d’Alene.

The federal government could pay up to $1,000 to people who adopt wild horses thanks to a new incentive program that aims to reduce the animals’ chronic overpopulation.