Idaho

The 2-acre fire was 100% contained late Wednesday night with the use of a combination of excavators, bulldozers and hand tools, according to Johnathan Luhnow, an IDL fire information officer.

Idaho State Police are investigating a fatal motorcycle crash in Nez Perce County that left one man dead. 

A wildfire broke out in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests near Cataldo, Idaho, early Wednesday morning, according to the Idaho Department of Lands.

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man found dead in April in a wooded area of state Highway 53 and Greensferry Road near Rathdrum.

Coeur d’Alene police are investigating a homicide after officers found a 61-year-old man dead inside his house near Woodland Middle School.

For the first time in 108 years, an adult chinook is swimming in Hangman Creek. 

St. Luke’s Health System is still having trouble getting its lawsuit against Ammon Bundy and a close associate to move forward — and not just because neither man is responding to the legal system. Bundy, who is running for Idaho governor as an independent, and Diego Rodriguez failed to appear at a hearing at the Ada County Courthouse on Tuesday, but because of paperwork errors, St. Luke’s was ...

Five Idaho residents have sued state Rep. Chad Christensen after the Iona Republican blocked them from viewing his Facebook page.

About 100 people gathered in downtown Coeur d’Alene on Sunday to protest the highly restrictive abortion law that could take effect in Idaho as early as next month.

There was still an ongoing dispute about where these vast amounts of irrigation water would come from. On one hand, some were advocating for building a giant dam at the Grand Coulee. Others, including powerful Spokane interests, wanted to bring the water from the Pend Oreille River through a vast series of canals and tunnels.

A new study by University of Idaho researchers predicted that Bear Valley Creek, a stream that flows into the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, will drop by nearly half by 2040, and by nearly three-quarters by the end of the century. 

In “Torn: Married to a White Supremacist,” Chris Eddy writes about how her husband moved their family from California to North Idaho and eventually became the spokesperson for Richard Butler’s neo-Nazi church. She writes about how her Catholic faith kept her loyal to her husband, and how she was able to separate the man she loved from his beliefs, which she despised.

Dozens of cheering Reclaim Idaho volunteers turned in more than 100,000 signatures for verification at the Idaho State Capitol on Wednesday as part of their effort to place a $300 million education funding ballot initiative on November’s ballot.

Abortion rights advocates have noted that people in states like Idaho, which have outlawed nearly all abortions, will soon have to travel across state lines to terminate pregnancies. Planned Parenthood plans to open a new clinic just across the border in Ontario.