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Idaho voters can help pick the state’s official gun in 2026 general election
Progressives head to red states seeking to drive enthusiasm in Trump strongholds
Stephanie and Ryan Burnett were perplexed. The crowd was enormous. The line snaked endlessly between buildings. Were they in the right place?
A long trend: How the Idaho Legislature has removed local governments’ powers
Early on in the COVID pandemic, Idaho Gov. Brad Little issued a temporary stay home order — temporarily closing some businesses and limiting public gatherings.
Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support
An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday…
Idaho GOP leaders announce new DOGE task force
Republican Idaho legislative leaders announced Thursday they formed the Idaho Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE Task Force.
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…