Idaho

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has become the first circuit in the nation to order a state to pay for an inmate’s gender confirmation surgery, ruling Monday that a three-judge panel decision will stand.

Idahoans are buying more liquor from state liquor stores, but they’re not drinking more alcohol.

The Double J Dog Ranch’s Filbert and Daphne, competed in the Puppy Bowl Sunday and another dog from the ranch, Lulu, scored multiple touchdowns in the Dog Bowl on Saturday.

As Idaho’s primary inches closer, the state’s voters will have to choose a party and one of more than a dozen candidates who will be on the state’s presidential primary ballots.

A state official says Idaho’s roads are becoming increasingly dangerous with distracted drivers and a growing number of motorists.

Competitors are the from the Double J Dog Ranch near Hauser.

The mom of two children missing since September failed to meet a court-ordered deadline to bring the kids to authorities in Idaho on Thursday.

Clark’s Diamond Jewelers in Coeur d’Alene is involving attorneys in its crusade to award more than $500,000 in refunds to customers after an insurance company ruled that snowfall fell short of a promotional total.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has appointed a Coeur d’Alene pastor who survived six gunshot wounds, to replace a state representative who was recently expelled after a tax evasion conviction.

Lawmakers who oversee appropriations for the U.S. Forest Service have sent a letter requesting the agency revoke its decision allowing a Canadian company to write a key environmental report on proposed open-pit gold mines in central Idaho.

Police say the mother of two missing children has been found in Hawaii, along with her new husband, but the children still have not been located.

Wind knocked down the screen of the drive-in theater in Grangeville, Idaho, but the owner said he will rebuild at a time when drive-in theaters are a rarity and nostalgia fuels business. During its heyday, Spokane was home to seven drive-in theaters. The last one closed more than 25 years ago.

“I firmly believe in community over competition,” said one local business owner who has offered to help displaced tenants of the burned building at Fourth Street and Lakeside Avenue.

Six downtown Coeur d’Alene businesses are without a home and with uncertain futures after fire ripped through their building at Fourth Street and Lakeside Avenue early Monday.

High in the Bitterroot Mountains, 100 miles from Spokane, a long-forgotten Old West legacy “boot hill” is sparking new interest. The Taft Cemetery – the only remnant of one of the West’s last lawless railroad boomtowns – was rediscovered in recent months, thanks to the keen memory of a retired 78-year-old Idaho miner and modern metal-detecting technology.

The Idaho House of Representatives voted unanimously on Thursday to expel North Idaho Rep. John Green, a day after he was convicted on felony charges in Texas and refused to resign his Idaho House seat.

Idaho state Rep. John O. Green said Wednesday that he has no immediate plans to step down after a Texas jury convicted him of the felony charge of conspiracy to defraud the federal government.