Idaho

After a fire, a pandemic, a relocation and a renaming, Emerge Coeur d’Alene’s annual one-night art festival will return to the Lake City on Friday.

A 19-year-old driver was killed in a single-vehicle car crash in Nez Perce County on Tuesday night. The incident is under investigation. 

Dozens of Republican representatives are backing a bill that seeks to eliminate a federal tax on firearms and ammunition — which has served as a major source of funding to state wildlife management agencies for 85 years. The legislation, proposed by Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., last month, is called the RETURN (Repealing Excise Tax on Unalienable Rights Now) our Constitutional Rights Act of 2022, ...

The National Weather Service Spokane predicts a 40%-50% chance of rain in Spokane on Monday, with temperatures expected to reach a high in the low 70s. During firework displays Monday night, the weather is expected to be cloudy with temperatures dipping into the low 50s, according to NWS meteorologist Ken Daniel.

The Idaho Attorney General’s office is investigating a publication called The People’s Pen after a North Idaho resident filed a campaign finance complaint alleging it is not a newspaper but an electioneering piece produced and paid for by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee.

Aaron J. Faulhaber, 49, of Laclede, Idaho, was one of four men who died after their boat capsized Tuesday night on the Pend Oreille River near Priest River. Gregory J. Daiker, 59, of Laclede; Jason L. Maxson, 51, of Laclede; and John R. Schulte, 59, of Sandpoint, were the other three retrieved from the river between Tuesday and Friday, according to a news release from the Bonner County Sheriff's Office. 

The bodies of the remaining three victims of a boat crash on the Pend Oreille River this week have been found, and all four victims of the capsizing have been identified.

Idaho Power will pay nearly $1.1 million in fines after Clean Water Act permitting violations at multiple Snake River hydroelectric facilities, according to a news release from Idaho’s Department of Environmental Quality. Idaho Power earlier this year voluntarily submitted a document to the department that detailed oil and gas discharges, temperatures, pH data and other information at ...

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The man, who was not identified, was traveling west in a Yamaha side-by-side on Freeman Lake Road near Priest River when he left the roadway and was ejected from the vehicle, according to a news release from the Idaho State Police. He died at the scene of the crash.