Idaho

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 ...

New Year’s Eve and the early hours of 2026 proved especially festive at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center’s Family Beginnings, where six babies were born in a 12-hour span.

State Rep. Marco Erickson says he has seen the danger of marijuana use firsthand. A 46-year-old Republican representing Idaho Falls, Erickson grew up in a family whose members struggled with drug addictions. He then spent decades working at an inpatient treatment center as a mental health counselor, and as a public health official in Nevada and Eastern Idaho focused on substance-abuse ...

A “fireball” during the New Year’s Eve Potato Drop fireworks show appeared to shatter glass at a downtown Boise building, injuring a child, according to video and witness accounts. Boise Fire Department spokesperson Lauren Melink confirmed in an email to the Idaho Statesman that fire crews and Ada County EMS responded to West Bannock Street for reports of a child injured by glass that broke ...

Those wanting to add some protein to their favorite dish this New Year’s Day should double-check their labels after food safety officials warned that products from an Idaho meat distributor could cause food poisoning.

The families of two construction workers killed when an unfinished private plane hangar collapsed at the Boise Airport nearly two years ago settled a wrongful death lawsuit against two Idaho companies involved in the project. The terms of the agreements are confidential, attorneys for the families and the project’s general contractor separately told the Idaho Statesman. In a related action, ...

Idaho’s U.S. senators have sounded the alarm with President Donald Trump over his recent decision to relax federal marijuana restrictions.

A Boise man became the first person in the Ada County arrested under an Idaho law that makes it illegal to possess child pornography generated by artificial intelligence. Detectives with the Ada County Sheriff’s Office arrested Tyler Cox, 19, on Tuesday morning on suspicion of possessing child sexually exploitative material and visual representations of sexual abuse of a minor. Both ...