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Idaho voters can help pick the state’s official gun in 2026 general election
AP: Simpson, Fulcher win
Republican Rep. Russ Fulcher was reelected to a U.S. House seat representing Idaho on Wednesday, defeating Democratic challenger Kaylee Peterson
Trump wins Idaho’s vote for president
This means all four of Idaho’s electoral votes will go to Trump. The candidate who receives the majority of the country’s 538 electoral votes – or at least 270…
Election 2024: 146,000 Idaho voters and counting have already voted by absentee ballot
An additional 173,000 Idahoans have already voted by early in-person voting for the general election
An Idaho health department isn't allowed to give COVID-19 vaccines anymore
The six-county district along the Idaho-Oregon border includes three counties in the Boise metropolitan area
Steelhead returns so far mark the highest annual returns in last seven years, could climb
The fish start arriving late summer, and by fall, they are well distributed in Idaho rivers stretching from Lewiston, Riggins, Salmon, and Challis, and provide…
Poachers are exploiting the high demand for eagle feathers that are sacred among Native Americans
America's golden eagles face a rising threat from a black market for their feathers used in Native American powwows and other ceremonies, according to wildlife…
Hunter kills a charging grizzly in East Idaho, marking the third incident since June
An elk hunter shot and killed a grizzly bear in East Idaho on Saturday after it charged at him, according to a news release from the Idaho Department of Fish a…
Police investigate after a dead infant is found in a baby box at an Idaho hospital
Police are investigating after the body of a baby girl was found at a southeastern Idaho hospital in a box meant for people to anonymously give up a newborn, officials said Monday.
Idaho gets behind land lawsuit
A coalition of counties in Arizona and New Mexico, the New Mexico Federal Lands Council and New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau.
Three states renew their effort to reduce access to the abortion drug mifepristone
The states argue they have legal standing because access to the pills “undermine state abortion laws and frustrate state law enforcement,” they wrote in court …
Hundreds of thousands spent in support and opposition of Idaho’s Proposition 1
Groups opposing Proposition 1 have spent more than $460,000 in electioneering communications this year.
Idaho revamps execution chamber so docs can access deep veins after failed lethal injection attempt
The failed execution attempt prompted the state to begin renovating its execution chamber to add a room where a doctor can insert a central venous line.
Election 2024: Early voting begins Tuesday in Ada, Bonneville, Kootenai and other Idaho counties
The deadline for registered voters to request an absentee ballot at www.voteidaho.gov is Oct. 25.
Avista customers in Idaho will see a drop in monthly bill starting this month
Avista filed a power cost adjustment and fixed cost adjustment with the commission in late July.
‘The next era for us’: Idaho’s Wassmuth Center for Human Rights to open doors of new building
While Idaho is not always at the forefront of combatting discrimination, there were times in Idaho’s history when the state was, Bruce-Bennion said, referencin…