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Updated 2 days, 23 hours ago

Lori Vallow Daybell convicted in Arizona of conspiring to kill her estranged husband in 2019

Prosecutors said Vallow Daybell had help from her brother, Alex Cox, in the July 2019 shooting death of Charles Va…

Updated 2 weeks ago
New Idaho law slashes DEI at universities. What it means for students

When Mario Pile arrived at the University of Idaho’s Moscow campus in early 2022, the school’s Black students were struggling. The few Black undergraduates on campus were dropping out at high rates, unable to cope …

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Police: Guards who helped drag woman from Coeur d’Alene event should be charged

Officers have recommended criminal charges for the private security guards who helped drag a woman by her arms out of a Republican town hall in Coeur d’Alene a…

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Prosecutors allowed to admit some traffic stop footage of Idaho murder suspect Kohberger

During a traffic stop months before four University of Idaho college students were stabbed to death, the man accused of killing them questioned why the deputy who pulled him over needed his driver’s license and pho…

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Hearing could set rules for evidence and other details in Bryan Kohberger's quadruple murder trial

Prosecutors and attorneys for a man charged in the killings of four University of Idaho students in 2022 began arguing some of the final ground rules they want…

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Idaho governor approves increase in state public defense budget

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Friday approving a budget increase for the state’s new Office of the State Public Defender.

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Outrage builds as video shows police in Pocatello shooting a knife-wielding autistic teenager

Idaho police officers opened fire from behind a chain-link fence just seconds after exiting their patrol cars and critically wounded a teenage boy — described …

Updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Momentous evidentiary hearings await Bryan Kohberger ahead of Idaho student murder trial

More than 170 legal filings with considerable implications for trial in the University of Idaho student homicides case are set to near their resolution as defe…

Updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Outrage builds as video shows Idaho police shooting a knife-wielding teen across a chain-link fence

Andres' son called 911 around 5:22 p.m. Saturday to report a domestic dispute in a nearby backyard. An apparently intoxicated man was wielding a kitchen knife and periodically chasing a man and woman in the yard, h…

Updated 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Who's who in Lori Vallow Daybell's trial in Arizona?

Vallow Daybell, 51, a beautician by trade and mother of three, has been married five times. She married her high school sweetheart when she was 19. It ended…

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
U of Idaho student hung ‘Trump train’ flag on apartment wall. What landlord did

A University of Idaho junior says a flag his mother sent him as a joke ended up costing him his housing.

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Trump administration rolls back forest protections in bid to ramp up logging

President Donald Trump's administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests u…

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Idaho Legislature ends 2025 session

Idaho state lawmakers wrapped up the 2025 legislative session Friday, after spending much of the day awaiting amendments to a bill that prohibits businesses an…

Updated 3 weeks ago
Idaho Gov. Little signs bill blocking unauthorized immigrants from public services

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed into law a bill to prevent unauthorized immigrants in Idaho from accessing publicly funded assistance.

Updated 3 weeks ago
Idaho's anti-DEI bill heads to the governor's desk

A bill placing sweeping prohibitions on DEI in public higher education institutions passed the House on Thursday and will go to the governor for consideration.

Updated 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Biden appointee added to prosecution in Bryan Kohberger’s Idaho student murder trial

A former U.S. attorney for Idaho has joined the team prosecuting Idaho college student homicide defendant Bryan Kohberger.