Idaho

Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Tuesday signed sweeping budget cuts into law for the current fiscal year, delivering a win to hardliners in his own party who have pushed this session for shrinking the size of Idaho’s government.

Workplace discrimination complaints filed with the Idaho Human Rights Commission have more than doubled in three years, according to the agency’s latest annual report. Pam Howland, attorney and founder of Idaho Employment Lawyers, a law firm that specializes in employment litigation, attributed the jump to increasingly polarized workplaces, rapid population growth and shifting federal ...

In 2020, the Idaho State Legislature officially recognized Idaho Women’s Day, a day to honor women of the Gem State. This year’s celebration on Saturday afternoon marked six years of the tradition and centered on the theme of courage. The Southwest Idaho National Organization for Women Strong holds the gathering each year, bringing speakers, artists and community together in front of the Idaho ...

Last week, one of Meredith Sievers’ patients missed an appointment.

A woman from Idaho has been named president-elect of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Kim Brackett, a longtime Southern Idaho resident, is the third rancher from the Gem State and the third woman to be elected NCBA president since it the organization was founded in 1989. It serves as the oldest and largest national trade association for cattle farmers and ranchers across the U.S. On ...

After two days of at-times emotional public testimony, Idaho lawmakers narrowly voted down a proposal to expand on a “medical freedom” bill Gov. Brad Little signed into law in 2025.

An Idaho lawmaker wants to revamp a state process for investigating legislators’ possible ethics violations — with a proposal that would pull much of the process out of the public eye.

Idaho lawmakers are trying to strengthen the state’s “abortion trafficking” law after a legal challenge.

The Idaho House widely passed a bill Wednesday that would require school officials and health professionals to out transgender minors to their parents, or face lawsuits.

Micron has come a long way since its humble founding nearly half a century ago in the basement of a Boise dental office, where sedative gas wafted through the floorboards and an early executive used a hair dryer to keep the company’s logo from smearing off its chips.

A jury in Boise awarded $10 million in damages Friday to a University of Idaho professor who sued a Texas woman for defamation over fabricated claims she repeatedly made on social media that the academic was responsible for the Moscow college student murders.

An Idaho bill to build new partnerships around affordable housing took its first steps this session as legislators advanced a proposal that would give counties more leeway to waive taxes on new low-priced developments.

Nutex Health, a for-profit company from Houston that operates a network of micro-hospitals around the country, wants to expand into the Treasure Valley. But Idaho’s largest health insurer, the nonprofit Blue Cross of Idaho, is determined to stop it. Or at least put guardrails around it. Mike Reynoldson, a spokesperson for Blue Cross, said Tuesday before the Senate Commerce and Human Resources ...

A former patient of an Idaho program that sought to keep people with severe psychosis on their medication has died, providers said. It was the third death since the Idaho Health and Welfare Department cut the program, called Assertive Community Treatment, in December amid statewide budget shortages.

Sturgill, of Kimberly, will make his ninth trip to Ukraine next month, taking supplies and organizing relief efforts. He said his desire to help out can be difficult to explain.