Idaho

BOISE – The Idaho Republican Party on Tuesday named an eastern Idaho Republican official as the state party’s new executive director.

Through April, state revenues are $97.7 million below the Idaho Legislature’s forecast for the current 2025 fiscal year, according to a new monthly revenue report released by the Idaho Legislative Services Office.

Months before a new Idaho law will require health insurance companies to expand breast cancer screening coverage, the Idaho Department of Insurance is guiding insurers on how to prepare.

Idaho’s new flag law, which has been skirted by some cities, has affected a Treasure Valley town that traditionally flew a pro-police flag. The law, passed by the Idaho Legislature this year to limit which flags government entities may display, led the Parma Police Department to stop displaying its Thin Blue Line flag, which is a black-and-white American flag with one blue stripe. The name ...

The West Ada School District on Tuesday unveiled its proposed revised policy governing what teachers can display in their classrooms or wear at school. The proposal comes after months of scrutiny over the district’s decision to require a teacher in Meridian to remove inclusive signs from her classroom believed to violate existing policy on “content neutral classrooms.” The teacher, Sarah ...

Days after a Challis man went missing in a remote part of Central Idaho, emergency personnel’s search for him was called off. That’s because it became a homicide investigation. The Custer County Sheriff’s Office arrested Alan Bruce, 70, of Challis, after he admitted to law enforcement that he shot and killed 47-year-old Patrick Shelton, who was reported missing over the weekend, according to ...

Idaho’s prison system once again is without execution drugs after its stockpile expired earlier this year, the latest in a series of hurdles to carrying out the death penalty in the state.

In recent months, Pocatello’s mayor and City Council members had kept an eye on the status of a $16 million grant the city had been awarded, concerned about its status amid slashes to the federal budget. The Environmental Protection Agency awarded the grant in the final months of the Biden administration to help “disadvantaged communities tackle environmental and climate justice challenges” ...

Bryan Kohberger’s immediate family will be allowed to attend the entirety of his upcoming capital murder trial, the presiding judge ruled. This decision was one of two orders from 4th District Judge Steven Hippler publicized on the court’s website Wednesday. He wrote in the three-page order surrounding the defense’s request to allow members of their client’s family — his parents and siblings — ...