Idaho voters will likely see a hot-button political topic on their ballots this November as the organizers behind a proposed ballot initiative to carve out reproductive health care rights — including the right to abortion — say they believe they’ve met qualifications two weeks ahead of the state deadline. Idahoans United for Women and Families, a nonprofit that formed in 2024 in response to ...
An Idaho federal judge pushed back against the Trump administration over its immigration agenda in a recent court ruling. The administration has hardened its attitude toward immigrants since President Donald Trump took office after promising mass deportations, for example, by pressuring immigration judges to deport more people. The administration has also pushed for mandatory detention of all ...
An Idaho elected official has been accused of holding a woman at knifepoint and stabbing a girl during an altercation with an Ada County family on the Payette River last summer, according to a civil lawsuit the family filed against him and two other men. Boise County Commissioner Darrell “Lindy” Lindstrom and two others are named as defendants in the lawsuit, which was filed in Boise County on ...
Boise State University is losing its interim president. The University of Montana announced Tuesday that its Board of Regents has chosen Jeremiah Shinn as its next president. He will start July 1. Shinn has served in the top role at Boise State for less than a year, after the president of the Idaho State Board of Education asked him to take the reins following the news that former President ...
BOISE, Idaho — A Texas woman ordered to pay $10 million in damages to a University of Idaho professor who she repeatedly accused on social media of orchestrating the 2022 Moscow college students murders has appealed the jury’s award in federal court. Ashley Guillard, 41, of Houston, filed a notice of appeal this week in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in response to the verdict in the ...
The Idaho Legislature’s approval of a change in law that would have expanded the number of children a day care provider may watch at one time was struck down by Gov. Brad Little with a rare veto Wednesday evening, with the Republican citing safety concerns and risks of fraud.
Idaho’s six urban counties paced a statewide 1.4% increase last year, bringing Idaho’s population close to 2.03 million, according to U.S. Census Bureau data compiled by the Idaho Department of Labor. That’s good for second in the nation, trailing South Carolina by one-tenth of a percentage point.
The flag saga continues. Some Idaho lawmakers have tried to bring down Boise’s Pride flag since last year, ultimately succeeding this year after the Legislature added a fine for violating a 2025 law that banned Pride and many other flags on government property. Boise’s City Council had made the Pride flag an official flag to get around the 2025 law. Rep. Ted Hill, R-Eagle, brought two bills ...
Idaho lawmakers — for the second time this week — used a move called a “radiator cap” to completely rewrite a bill outside of the normal process Wednesday evening, and it’s a bill that law enforcement in the state is against.
The Idaho Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to restore Medicaid mental health treatment programs that the state cut to comply with the governor’s order for budget cuts.
Just hours after Boise was forced to take down its Pride flag, and on the day that Gov. Brad Little signed into law a bathroom bill targeting transgender people, the city proclaimed March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility. On Tuesday evening, City Hall was lit in the Transgender Pride flag colors — light pink, baby blue and white. Mayor Lauren McLean choked up during a special City Council ...
A group of protesters made its way to the doors of a Boise engineering firm on Tuesday with a petition. Its message? Asking the engineers to stop designing a firing squad chamber for the state of Idaho to execute death-row prisoners. But the building’s doors were firmly locked, and no one answered the knocking. “We’re here outside the business whose job it is to build this execution chamber,” ...
Gov. Brad Little has signed the Legislature’s anti-transgender bathroom bill into law, making it a crime to use a restroom or changing room that doesn’t align with a person’s sex at birth. The law, which will apply to government-owned buildings and places of public accommodation, makes it a misdemeanor if someone “knowingly and willfully” uses such a restroom. A second offense within five ...
Idaho lawmakers got what some of them have been wanting to do since 2025: The city of Boise took its Pride flag down. Idaho legislators first passed a law in 2025 preventing the state and local governments from flying most flags. During debate, supporters shared photos of Boise’s flag as an example of what they hoped the law would target, according to previous Statesman reporting. But the law ...
Inland Northwest philatelists are in for a treat this May as a Washington photographer’s picture of a Coeur d’Alene eagle family makes it to a post office near you.
