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A 52-year-old man was confirmed to have died by suicide at Two Rivers Park southeast of Kennewick on Thursday.

Travel will be affected Saturday, Jan. 18, through the Yakima River Canyon due to the annual Eaton family cattle drive.

The Idaho Republican Party – the most dominant political force the state has known – says it needs help paying its rent.

A Boise State University public policy survey found that the majority of Idaho residents prefer abortion policies that are more lax than the state’s current restrictions. The university published the results of its annual public policy survey on Friday. It came as state officials and stakeholders are unsure whether President-elect Donald Trump will dismiss an ongoing lawsuit the Department of ...

With the cost of everything going up, some homeowners want to embrace self-sufficiency in energy by mounting solar panels on their roofs to generate power. And considering the Basin's abundant sunshine, that seems like a great solution for this area.

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed a prominent Idaho businessman whose Sawtooth ranch airstrip has been at the center of controversy and an ongoing lawsuit to serve as Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment at the Department of Agriculture.

The latest proposal to repeal Idaho’s longstanding ban on armed private militias received approval on Friday for future consideration this legislative session. Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Moscow, introduced a bill that would repeal a law dating to 1927 that prohibits a “body of men” other than the Idaho Army National Guard from associating as a “military company” or parading “in public with firearms ...

Sara Watkins met her husband, Travis, in a hiking class at what is now Yakima Valley College.

In his Jan. 15 inaugural address, Gov. Bob Ferguson vowed to work with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump when possible — and to push back when necessary.It’s an approach also embraced by the leader of the state’s education department.

A private immigration prison in Tacoma must pay $23 million in back wages and penalties for violating Washington's minimum wage law, after it paid detainees as little as $1 a day, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

Jan. 17—The U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday that it's entered into an agreement with the University of Washington to ensure the university complies with federal civil rights law, after the federal agency reviewed its handling of dozens of discrimination complaints. The agreement comes a few months after an October report found many students who identified as Jewish, Israeli, ...