CRISIS: Papers peddle misinformation

This is a letter in response to your series on COVID misinformation.

Life boils down to making good choices

The pro-choice movement is gaining momentum.

Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early COVID-19

Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early COVID-19

Using a smartphone microscope to detect parasites in blood

WASHINGTON - Prick a finger and have the blood checked for parasites - by smartphone? Scientists are turning those ubiquitous phones into microscopes and other medical tools that could help fight diseases in remote parts of the world.

ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome recovery

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (also called myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME), is characterized by prolonged states of exhaustion often accompanied by problems with cognition, depression, and “all over” pain and stiffness after a minimal amount of activity.

REPORTS: A jab at jabs

According to VAERS COVID Vaccine Data, 595,620 reports through Aug. 13, 2021…

Idaho hospitals nearly buckling in relentless COVID surge

St. Luke's Boise Medical Center invited The Associated Press into its restricted ICUs this week

Autumn Jolley: Ceaseless animal compassion and care

IN PERSON

One by one, until there are none, Autumn Jolley will strive to find forever homes for abandoned, abused, hard-to-place and homeless animals in North Idaho.

Offering spoiled food no way to spoil your pet

People may choose to eat foods past their expiration date, as long as the food looks and smells good, but that doesn’t mean this practice is safe for pet food. Ensuring pet food is suitable to eat is the first step to preventing your dog or cat from becoming ill.

He's a dog person

Dave Byer has turned his love of dogs into a career

If you want to know anything about Dave Byer, ask a local dog.

Know your computer threats

Consumers should understand the difference between ransomware, a virus, and a popup.

Jewell orders firefighting strategy that protects habitat

Secretary of Interior seeks 'science-based' approach that safeguards the greater sage grouse

BOISE - U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell is calling for a new wildfire-fighting strategy to protect a wide swath of intermountain West sagebrush country that supports cattle ranching and is home to a struggling bird species.

Lorrene May (Baxter) Messerly, 88

Lorrene May (Baxter) Messerly was born on July 4, 1925, in Donalda, Alberta, Canada, and passed away on Aug. 3, 2013, at Hospice House in Hayden.

If you want a good workiing dog best get one that trains itself

Best get one that trains itself

Feds: Dairy cows had unlawful drug residues

Cows sold for consumption in six states, including Idaho

SEATTLE (AP) - Federal authorities said a northwest Washington dairy sold cows for slaughter despite drug residues not approved for human consumption.

Writers Corner August 24, 2012

THE TREASURE OF OUR HOUSE

Feds celebrate sage grouse deal with Oregon ranchers

The Obama administration and Gov. Kate Brown joined with Oregon ranchers to celebrate agreements they all hope will help keep the sage grouse off the endangered species list.

Keep your dogs calm for the Fourth

Here are some general guidelines to help keep your pets safe

Rockets' red glare and bombs bursting in air might bring smiles to two-legged revelers. But for man's best friend? This celebration can be a nightmare.

Pondering the necessity of bird dogs willing to put up with their owners

I heard a story about a bird dog that couldn’t be trained, and usually ran off flushing pheasants and Huns a quarter-mile away in the wrong direction. One day the dog, an English pointer, sprinted off after scent and its owner sighed, realizing he would get rid of the darned dog as soon as he returned to the ranch. Maybe trade him for a weaner pig, a lame ewe or a one-legged hen.

CRUELTY: Dog story heartbreaking

We went down to the barn Sunday morning, Jan. 15, to care for the cattle. Shocked: in the barn lay a beautiful, older, neutered German Shepherd wearing a black harness, DEAD. He left a terrible trail and puddles of blood. We followed the trail down our driveway, across Sunny Slope Road into the pow-wow ground.