Idaho

In a few rare instances, Idaho allows patients to pursue abortions and override the state’s ban on the procedure, one of the most restrictive in the country. Those exceptions include reported cases of rape and incest. But one major barrier could make that a difficult, if not impossible, reality for survivors: denial of their own police reports. Inquiries from the Idaho Statesman revealed that ...

Idaho Department of Correction Officer Daniel Lopez said he wanted to believe that the actions taken by Skylar Meade, the prisoner who escaped in a hospital ambush, were an “extreme slipup” in judgment from someone tired of being incarcerated. But after viewing text messages that detailed Meade’s plans to target correction officers and escape from the Boise hospital, Lopez said he felt ...

In the year after a jury ordered far-right activist Ammon Bundy to pay millions for defaming St. Luke’s employees, Bundy lost his Emmett home, went into hiding and moved to Utah. Now he's filed for bankruptcy.

In a dark and sterile hospital room, the light from a cellphone highlighted the exhaustion on Brandon Wheeler’s face as he checked for an email offering help for his son. It wasn’t there.

Just as the microorganisms in the human gut play a crucial role to our well-being, microorganisms in forests are essential to forest stability.

For a former Hayden couple known for hosting massive holiday shows, a recent federal appeals ruling was anything but Christmas in July.

A ballot initiative to end Idaho’s closed primary elections and create a ranked-choice voting system for the general election has enough signatures to appear on the ballot for the Nov. 5 general election, the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office announced Wednesday.

Colt Seward said he still can’t fully remember what happened to him when he was arrested last year. The May 2023 incident garnered public scrutiny when a video captured by a bystander showed Meridian Police Officer Donald Heida punching the 32-year-old at least half a dozen times in the face and head. More than a year later, that arrest continues to have lasting impacts as the family weighs ...

A 10-year battle to hold a California gold miner responsible for violating the Clean Water Act in Idaho by repeatedly dumping suction mining waste into the South Fork of the Clearwater without a permit has ended.

LEWISTON, Idaho – Boaters lounging on a Snake River beach on Independence Day could see two helicopters scooping water as part of the work to control the Billy Creek fire burning in Idaho about 20 miles south of Asotin, Washington.

In March of 1975, Mark Conlin bought what was once a post office building in the Spokane World Fair for $250. The building was one of many made to be dismantled after the event, and Conlin had just the idea in mind for its future – A cabin on Lake Pend Oreille.