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‘Putin has lost this war’: Jim Risch on Russia’s escalation in Ukraine

UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 1, 2022

WASHINGTON – More than seven months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the Kremlin’s move to annex four provinces in eastern Ukraine on Friday doesn’t change the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin has failed to meet his main objective of toppling the government in Kyiv.

News > Education

While UI faculty are warned against even talking about emergency contraception, WSU will offer emergency contraceptives in vending machine

Sat., Oct. 1, 2022

Separated by just 8 miles, Washington State University and the University of Idaho remain vastly different places. Now in the post-Roe v. Wade era, the differences are more apparent than ever.

A&E > Art

Post Falls photographer Hara Allison launching new magazine, ‘Beneath Your Beautiful’

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 30, 2022

Each page tells a story.

News > Pacific NW

A new justice at the U.S. Supreme Court, and an Idaho wetlands case up first

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 30, 2022

When the U.S. Supreme Court opens its fall term on Monday, a few things will be different.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Satanists file federal lawsuit to overturn Idaho’s abortion ban

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 30, 2022

The Satanic Temple, headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Idaho on Friday alleging the law, which went into effect Aug. 25 and imposes felony criminal charges on any person performing an abortion in the state, violates members' Constitutional rights.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane Valley woman dies in Post Falls crash

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 30, 2022

A 74-year-old Spokane Valley woman died in a head-on crash early Friday morning on Interstate 90 in Post Falls.

News > Idaho

Steady rain Thursday made up for otherwise dry September

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 29, 2022

Almost half an inch of rain fell Thursday at the Spokane International Airport, making up almost the entirety of September’s rainfall and tying a rainfall record for Sept. 29, according to the National Weather Service Spokane.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Idaho goldminer fined $150,000 for unauthorized dredging of South Fork of Clearwater River

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 29, 2022

Shannon Poe, of California, had the civil penalty levied against him by U.S. Magistrate Judge Raymond Patricco on Wednesday. The Idaho Conservation League had brought legal action against Poe, alleging he'd been suction dredge mining the South Fork of the Clearwater River on more than three dozen occasions from 2014 to 2018 without permits required under the federal Clean Water Act.

News > Pacific NW

As temperatures topped 100, hundreds of HVAC units stopped working in Nampa schools

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 28, 2022

Dave Coles, a middle school teacher in Nampa, normally likes to dress up when he goes to work.

News > Higher education

NIC wrestling coach and former interim president resigns

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 28, 2022

Michael Sebaaly, North Idaho College’s wrestling coach and the school’s former interim president, resigned last week.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Kootenai County drag performer sues conservative North Idaho news blog for defamation over Pride in the Park video

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 28, 2022

A Kootenai County drag performer is suing a conservative North Idaho news blog for defamation after his performance in Coeur d'Alene this summer.

News > Pacific NW

Former Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger appeals rape conviction to Idaho Supreme Court

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 27, 2022

Former state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger has filed an appeal regarding his rape conviction to the Idaho Supreme Court.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Two killed in Bonner County collision on Monday

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 27, 2022

Two Bonner County men were killed in a collision on Monday afternoon on Highway 57.

News > Higher education

University of Idaho releases memo warning employees that promoting abortion is against state law

UPDATED: Mon., Sept. 26, 2022

The University of Idaho has warned its employees not to provide reproductive health counseling, including abortion, to their students or they may risk losing their jobs or criminal prosecution.

News > Crime/Public Safety

78-year-old man dies in Hayden house fire

UPDATED: Mon., Sept. 26, 2022

A 78-year-old man has died after a house fire Saturday night in Hayden.

News > Pacific NW

Tribal law enforcement boosted under bill proposed by members of Congress from the West

Sat., Sept. 24, 2022

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers re-introduced legislation Thursday to provide more resources for tribal law enforcement, an issue they say has become more urgent as Congress begins to consider how to respond to a July Supreme Court case that complicated state-tribal criminal jurisdiction.

News > Crime/Public Safety

‘I live in horror’: New records shed light on fatal Boise mall shooting, cite no motive

Sat., Sept. 24, 2022

Hundreds of pages of recently released documents obtained by the Idaho Statesman through a public records request — including officer incident reports, investigative documents and witness statements — paint an image of the 2021 Boise mall shooter, who investigators found was estranged from his family and had sent messages to relatives that had disturbed them.

News > Pacific NW

Idaho panel: Book-banning push is coordinated, national effort

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 23, 2022

BOISE – Recent pushes to ban books in Idaho schools and libraries are part of a coordinated national effort, experts on a panel convened by the City Club of Boise told an audience of more than 100 at the Idaho State Museum on Friday.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Idaho judge bans cameras from upcoming Daybell hearings

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 23, 2022

ST. ANTHONY – District Judge Steven Boyce has issued an order banning video and still cameras from all upcoming hearings in the Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell case.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Nepotism partly behind $150,000 in misused funds in Mason County fire district, Auditor finds

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 23, 2022

Three people in Mason County's Fire District No. 12 have been found to have misused public funds and other money, totaling about $165,000 since 2017.

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Steady rain Thursday made up for otherwise dry September

Idaho goldminer fined $150,000 for unauthorized dredging of South Fork of Clearwater River

As temperatures topped 100, hundreds of HVAC units stopped working in Nampa schools

NIC wrestling coach and former interim president resigns

Kootenai County drag performer sues conservative North Idaho news blog for defamation over Pride in the Park video

Former Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger appeals rape conviction to Idaho Supreme Court

Two killed in Bonner County collision on Monday

University of Idaho releases memo warning employees that promoting abortion is against state law

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Nepotism partly behind $150,000 in misused funds in Mason County fire district, Auditor finds

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