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Boise takes down its Pride flag after Gov. Little signs new flag bill into law

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

Idaho lawmakers got what some of them have been wanting to do since 2025: The city of Boise took its Pride flag down. Idaho legislators first passed a law in 2025 preventing the state and local governments from flying most flags. During debate, supporters shared photos of Boise’s flag as an example of what they hoped the law would target, according to previous Statesman reporting. But the law ...

News > World

An award-winning U.S. journalist was kidnapped in Iraq. Here’s what to know.

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

Award-winning American journalist Shelley Kittleson was kidnapped in Iraq on Tuesday, according to multiple news outlets, launching an investigation by the country's foreign ministry.

News > Federal Government

Trump administration exempts Gulf oil and gas drilling from endangered species protections

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

Convening a rarely used committee for the first time in more than three decades, top Trump administration officials voted Tuesday to exempt oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from requirements that protect endangered species. It’s a striking move that advocacy groups say could further imperil gulf wildlife like the Rice’s whale, one of the rarest whale species on earth with an estimated fewer ...

News > National business

‘This can’t be real’: Boise pizza delivery man’s gesture earns, oh, 80,000% tip

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

Dan Simpson didn’t think anything of it when he veered a few hundred feet off his Domino’s route in Boise on Friday night to pick up a pair of liter bottles of Diet Coke. Little did he know it would lead to a mind-boggling pizza delivery tip. The 68-year-old Boise native, who has spent more than a decade delivering for Domino’s a few nights a week to supplement his day job at the Idaho ...

News > Idaho

Local photographer’s eagle-and-eaglets to be featured on new postage stamp sheet

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

Inland Northwest philatelists are in for a treat this May as a Washington photographer’s picture of a Coeur d’Alene eagle family makes it to a post office near you.

News > Transportation

Getting there: Construction to resume in Chewelah, expected to be completed this fall

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

Travelers going through the rural town of Chewelah will see delays and lane closures beginning Wednesday.

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Meet the Pennsylvania man who hunts meteorites for a living

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

PHILADELPHIA -- Brett Joseph Cohen was manning the only meteorite stall at the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society‘s annual trade show Sunday morning. Chunks of asteroids and lunar rocks glinted on his table. He’d affixed a hand-lettered sign to one display: “This meteorite fell 12 days ago and was recovered by me in Northern Ohio.” And he was desperate to get back there. Two weeks before, ...

News > Nation

Judge blocks Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom plan for now

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

A federal judge issued an order to halt President Donald Trump's plan to build a $400 million White House ballroom at the site of the since-demolished East Wing, saying no work can proceed "absent ⁠express authorization from Congress."

News > Health

Learn about weight loss medication as UW medical school hosts obesity expert Dr. Ellen Schur this week

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

As they gain popularity, weight loss medications will be the focus of a Spokane talk by obesity expert Dr. Ellen Schur.

News > Nation

Army suspends helicopter aircrew that flew near Kid Rock’s house, official says

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

The U.S. Army has suspended the aircrew of two Apache attack helicopters that flew near the house of singer Kid Rock, seemingly in support of the vocal backer of U.S. President Donald Trump, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.

News > Sci/Tech

Why are we going back to the moon? NASA Artemis campaign targets Mars

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

For decades, science fiction writers from Andy Weir to Ray Bradbury have vividly imagined what it would be like if humans were to step foot on the surface of Mars.

News > WA Government

Washington ban of conversion therapy likely overturned by Supreme Court ruling

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

The U.S. Supreme Court decision that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youth is unconstitutional and violates the rights of a Christian conservative therapist likely will invalidate similar laws in nearly two dozen states, including Washington.

News > Nation

Judge rules Trump order eliminating NPR, PBS funding is unconstitutional

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

A federal judge in Washington struck down part of President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on Tuesday, ruling that it was unconstitutional retaliation that violated their press freedom rights under the First Amendment.

News > Nation

Scheme involving Michigan CEO, cocaine submarine leads to prison

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

DETROIT — An Albanian drug kingpin who designed a cocaine-smuggling submarine with a Grosse Pointe Park CEO was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison Tuesday following a sprawling federal case stretching from South America to Metro Detroit and Europe. Ylli Didani, 48, was sentenced 10 months after a federal jury in Detroit convicted him of three charges, including money laundering and two ...

News > World

Despite month of bombing, Iran retains some missile capability

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

Iran has retained some of its ability to launch offensive missile attacks after a month-long U.S.-Israeli bombardment of the country that was intended to cripple Tehran’s military might, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged on Tuesday.

News > National business

Liquor exports fell last year under retaliation to Trump tariffs: report

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

U.S. liquor exports fell more than $90 million last year, which a trade group blamed on trade friction with Canada and Europe after President Donald Trump imposed emergency tariffs that the Supreme Court has since overturned.

News > Nation

Supreme Court says state bans on ‘conversion therapy’ violate counselors’ free speech rights

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state laws forbidding “conversion therapy” for minors violate the free speech rights of licensed counselors.

News > Washington

Cities in Washington ban new ICE detention centers amid Trump push to expand

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

As the Trump administration continues its mass immigrant detention and deportation effort, city and county officials across the Seattle region have approved various bans on new or expanded immigration detention centers.

News > Military

US federal law enforcement to be present at Marine Corps graduation

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

U.S. federal law enforcement personnel will be present at an upcoming Marine Corps graduation, according to a message on the corps' Parris Island website, a move the South Carolina base has described as the first of its kind in recent memory.

News > Nation

Bad weather is back in the US forecast as April begins

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

After a brief break, severe weather is returning to the forecast as April begins – mainly across the central United States, with severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and flooding downpours all possible.

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