Idaho

In 2020, Evan Kates was struck with a devastating brain aneurysm. It came out of nowhere, and left him with a severe seizure disorder and profound developmental disabilities. Evan, then 5, was left reliant on a feeding tube, and doctors told his family he would probably never talk again.

With illegal items on the rise in the Idaho prison system, including attempts to introduce them with drones near the main corrections complex south of Boise, a state lawmaker has proposed a bill to ban unmanned aircraft from flying near prison facilities.

The Idaho State Police released thousands of new crime scene photos this week from the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students — only to take them down hours later. Bryan Kohberger, 31, was sentenced in July after pleading guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, both 21; junior Xana Kernodle, 20; and freshman Ethan Chapin, 20. ...

Idaho Child Protective Services tried to make a welfare check on a couple and newborn child in December. Days later, that infant was found dead at a home in Nampa. The incident has led to a call for better protections for children in cases of abuse, including new legislation that a Democratic state senator hopes to introduce this session. On Dec. 16, the Nampa Police Department found a ...

More than 3,300 people have applied for Idaho’s new $50 million tax credit program that directs public money toward private schools and homeschooling, the Idaho State Tax Commission said Thursday.

After Idaho’s top election official gave the federal government a list of all Idaho registered voters that scrubbed their personal information, the U.S. Department of Justice says it wants the unredacted list.

A court order will allow Idaho to enforce a state law that bans people from changing the listed sex on their birth certificate, which critics of the law have said singles out transgender people who want to change their legal documents to align with their gender identity.

Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s office is cutting its staff’s paid parental leave by 75%. Starting July 1, eligible employees in Labrador’s office will receive only two weeks of paid parental leave, compared with the eight weeks available since 2020, according to a statement from Yvonne Dunbar, Labrador’s chief of staff and general counsel. Gov. Brad Little issued an executive order in 2020 ...

An Idaho military veteran charged with multiple counts of fraud in connection with the disappearance of more than $1.45 million pleaded not guilty to all charges during his arraignment in Idaho federal court Wednesday. Charles “Abe” Abrahamson, 56, a longtime Mountain Home resident, served six years as the Idaho American Legion’s senior executive overseeing the nonprofit’s finances, and also a ...