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State News

What's happening in Idaho? For information and details regarding Idaho news, see our articles below.

Updated 2 hours, 49 minutes ago

UPDATE: A tanker plane crash has killed a firefighting pilot in Oregon as Western wildfires spread

The single-pilot tanker plane disappeared in eastern Oregon while fighting one of the many wildfires spreading acr…

Updated 2 weeks ago
West Virginia, Idaho asking Supreme Court to review rulings allowing transgender athletes to compete

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador said Thursday activists working against the law are “pushing a radical social agenda that sidelines women and girls in the…

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Groups sue to restore endangered species protection for US northern Rockies wolves

The rejection of the conservation groups' petitions to relist wolves in February allowed state-run wolf hunts to continue in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming

Updated 3 weeks, 2 days ago
No budget surplus expected as Idaho begins new fiscal year today

After state budget projections missed the mark by more than $120 million in May, budget officials were not expecting the state of Idaho to end its fiscal year on Sunday with a budget surplus – a departure from reco…

Updated 4 weeks ago
Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside

The 9th Circuit decision had governed nine states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

Updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago
The Supreme Court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now in a limited ruling

The Idaho opinion doesn’t answer key questions about whether doctors can provide emergency abortions elsewhere

Updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Years after Idaho college students were stabbed to death, judge eyes 2025 trial for suspect

Police arrested Kohberger six weeks later at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania, where he was spending winter break.

Updated 1 month ago
The Supreme Court seems poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho, a Bloomberg News report says

The case would continue at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals if the Supreme Court dismisses the proceedings

Updated 1 month ago
LGBTQ+ librarians grapple with attacks on books - and on themselves

Gender nonconforming library workers in particular, like Meissner, are also grappling with growing calls for book bans across the U.S.

Updated 1 month ago
2 crop dusting airplanes collided in southern Idaho, killing 1 pilot and severely injuring the other

The crash was reported at about 12:30 p.m. in an area covered by sage and grass near the airport in Arco, the Butte County Sheriff's Office said.

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Judge could soon set trial date for man charged in killings of 4 University of Idaho students

So far, 2nd District Judge John Judge has not set a trial date, noting that the case is particularly complicated in part because prosecutors have said they wil…

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Bureau of Land Management shrinks proposed size of controversial Idaho wind farm project

Idaho Republicans U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson and U.S. Sen. Jim Risch both expressed their continued opposition to the project in social media posts last week.

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Chad Daybell sentenced to death for killing wife and girlfriend’s 2 children in jury decision

When asked by the judge whether he wanted to make a statement, Daybell declined.

Updated 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Jurors could soon decide the fate of Idaho man charged in triple-murder case

Daybell is charged with three counts of first-degree murder, insurance fraud, and conspiracy to commit murder and grand theft in connection with the deaths of …

Updated 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Ranked-choice voting has challenged the status quo. Its popularity will be tested in November

Republicans in Idaho, who control the legislature and hold every statewide office, have been attacking the proposed ranked voting citizen initiative there. Sta…

Updated 2 months ago
Biden selected as nominee in Idaho Democratic caucuses

Only registered Democrats and unaffiliated voters were allowed to participate