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 for Bryan Kohberger's trial in a Wednesday morning hearing.

American YouTuber who left a Diet Coke can for a reclusive tribe on an island is arrested in India

Visitors are banned from traveling within 3 miles (5 kilometres) of the island, whose population has been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The inhabitants use spears and bows and arrows to hunt the animals that roam the small, heavily forested island. Deeply suspicious of outsiders, they attack anyone who lands onto their beaches.

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 defendant Bryan Kohberger returns to the courtroom Wednesday.

Rare blue diamond shines at a $100 million exhibition in Abu Dhabi

Visitors focused on the 10-karat blue diamond from South Africa, considered one of the most important blue diamonds ever discovered. Sotheby’s expects it to be auctioned off at $20 million in May.

Legals for April, 11 2025

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Bridge work set to begin in Kellogg

Traffic in Kellogg is going to be a little different this year as work begins on the Bunker Ave. Bridge.

Legals for April, 9 2025

New tornado outbreaks in the Midwest

Tornado and severe weather season in the central U.S. have ramped up this spring. Last week was especially tough as at least 50 twisters were reported from the Deep South northeastward into Michigan.

Legals for April, 8 2025

Trump pauses tariffs on most nations for 90 days, raises taxes on Chinese imports

Facing a global market meltdown, President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly backed down on his tariffs on most nations for 90 days, but raised his tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%.

Spokane Street project in Post Falls resumes Monday

Construction on the Spokane Street rehabilitation project picks up again Monday, April 7.

Swollen rivers are flooding towns in the US South after a prolonged deluge of rain

Cities ordered evacuations and rescue crews in inflatable boats checked on residents in Kentucky and Tennessee, while utilities shut off power and gas in a region stretching from Texas to Ohio. Floodwaters forced the closure of the historic Buffalo Trace Distillery, close to the banks of the swollen Kentucky River near downtown Frankfort.

Robert 'Bob' Earl Launhardt, 92

Robert “Bob” Earl Launhardt, 92, of Pinehurst, Idaho, passed away on November 1, 2024, at Mountain Valley of Cascadia, Kellogg, Idaho. Robert was born on December 1, 1931, in Collinsville, Ill.,

Northwest Notes April 9, 2025

Debora dos Santos, a first team All-West Coast Conference selection in the 2023-24 season at the University of San Francisco, has signed with Idaho, Vandal women's basketball coach Arthur Moreira announced. Also, her former USF teammate, 6-5 post Lorena Barbosa, has also signed with Idaho, Moreira said.

NIC WOMEN'S GOLF: Cardinals wrap up play at Cowgirl Classic in Arizona

NIC will compete in the Bobcat Desert Classic, hosted by Montana State, starting Monday at The Golf Club of Estrella in Goodyear, Ariz.

Weekend TV/Radio highlights

Television, radio and streaming highlights for upcoming weekend.

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 under an emergency designation announced Friday that cites dangers from wildfires.

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 by his family as nonverbal, autistic and intellectually disabled — as he stepped toward them with a knife, video from a witness shows.

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