Idaho

Idaho sheriffs are warning elected officials that new state Medicaid cuts to critical mental health services for people with severe mental illness could pose a public safety risk.

Anti-poaching and pro-wild sheep organizations have offered up thousands of dollars in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the person or people responsible for the poaching death of a bighorn sheep ram in the Idaho mountains.

The Trump administration wanted to prove that large numbers of undocumented immigrants were voting. So in September, the Department of Justice asked states for voter roll data. That drew concerns about privacy and overreach. In some states, like Nebraska, voters took the issue to courts. Many states decided to turn over information that did not include personal data like Social Security ...

Year-over-year foreclosure filings across Idaho nearly doubled in October as homeowners grapple with the mounting costs of unaffordable homes.

A new report issued this month by a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization shows the Idaho Legislature reduced state revenue by a combined $4 billion through a series of five income tax cuts passed since 2021.

After the November elections, Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon celebrated the “strong conservative campaigns” she witnessed in Caldwell, Post Falls and Pocatello. Those were all nonpartisan races, she acknowledged — but that label is a “farce,” she wrote in a Nov. 6 post. “Let’s be honest: there’s no such thing as a ‘nonpartisan’ race anymore,” she said. For years, the Idaho ...

After hours of heated testimony and debate, Sandpoint’s City Council voted to repeal the city’s rules protecting residents and visitors from discrimination. The city was the first of 13 in Idaho to pass an ordinance barring discrimination, said Nicole Erwin, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates. Its decision Wednesday marked the first time an Idaho city has dialed back such ...

The Boise School District will redirect over $4 million it planned to put toward facility maintenance to pay seven families who pursued legal action against the district over sexual abuse allegations.

A conservative Christian lobbying group said it is working with Idaho state lawmakers to rename a state highway after Charlie Kirk.

At least one of the families of the four victims in the Moscow college student murders plans to sue the nearby university where the man who admitted to the killings attended graduate school.

The University of Idaho’s U.S. Army officer training program, better known as ROTC, was placed on the chopping block as part of federal cuts before President Donald Trump intervened to save it, according to U.S. Sen. Jim Risch.

Idaho election officials said they’re investigating missing votes in Elmore County after noticing a discrepancy in the November election tallies.

The commander of the U.S. Air Force’s 366th Fighter Wing told a committee of Idaho legislators on Friday that an initial contingent of about 50 Qatari Emiri Air Force personnel could arrive for training at Idaho’s Mountain Home Air Force Base beginning around 2030 under a training program announced last month by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

A federal judge on Monday permanently ended the Satanic Temple’s challenge to Idaho’s abortion laws.

As videos began circulating of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a Wilder arena, where hundreds of law enforcement officers swarmed the final horse race of the season, footage of a bright blue porta-potty went viral.

Romero, a Meridian resident, said she and her young children were subjected to violence and aggression by law enforcement during an FBI-led raid in the Canyon County town that also involved ICE agents, who took more than 100 people into custody and arrested them.

As Idaho moved to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Gov. Brad Little promised that the state would help remove “highly dangerous illegal alien criminals.” In a news release last month, Little said Idaho State Police would target only undocumented immigrants convicted of violent crimes and already set to be deported.